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Tag Archives: American folk music
Jean Ritchie and Paul Clayton’s The Traditional Years: American Folk Tales and Songs
Peter Massey penned this review. It is a re-mastered album from about 1956. Jean Ritchie and Paul Clayton will need no introduction to folk music fans in America, because Jean Ritchie has been at the forefront of the American revivalist … Continue reading
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Anna & Elizabeth’s Sun to Sun
Anna Roberts-Gevalt and Elizabeth LaPrelle took the folk music world by storm with their 2014 self-titled album. It made my Top 10 for the year and was similarly honored by media from American Songwriter to No Depression to NPR to … Continue reading
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Eric Brace & Karl Straub’s Hangtown Dancehall
Nashville’s Eric Brace has teamed up with fellow singer-songwriter Karl Straub to write a “folk opera” based on the story behind “Sweet Betsy From Pike,” one of the most durable folk songs to come out of the California Gold Rush. … Continue reading
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Various artists’ Divided & United – The Songs of the Civil War
It’s hard to overstate just what an extraordinary musical collection Divided & United, The Songs Of The Civil War is. The United States has been marking the 150th anniversary of its Civil War for the past three years. And in … Continue reading
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Hobart Smith’s Blue Ridge Legacy
Dock Boggs got all the attention, but there were many other extraordinary musicians playing in the hills. Hobart Smith passed away in 1965. The world was just discovering the Beatles, there was no room for a mountain man on the … Continue reading
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Texas Gladden’s Ballad Legacy
This addition to Rounder’s “Alan Lomax Collection” Portraits series is a short course on Appalachian ballads, courtesy of Lomax and this Virginia singer named Texas Gladden. Most of these recordings were made by Lomax at Gladden’s home in the 1940s, … Continue reading
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My favorite recordings of 2015
It’s a tradition for reviewers to draw up a Top 10 at the end of a calendar year. It’s also a tradition in an online music community that I’ve belonged to for about as long as I’ve been writing for … Continue reading →