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- What’s New for 11th of October: Music reviews picked by Gary for you to consider, ‘Hotel California’ live by the Eagles for you to listen to, and a biography of the Eagles for you to read. So isn’t that enough for one edition here? I think so.
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- What’s New for the 26th of July: Witches in fiction, both books and film; an Americana reissue and some music on a smoky theme
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- What’s New for the 24th of May: Gary’s Review of Elizabeth Bear’s White Space novels, iain’s review of the Lonely Signal Burns novellas by her, she reading her own story, ‘The Chains That You Refuse’, and I see Gary has some tasty music reviews fir us as well
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- What’s New for the 10th of May: books reviewed by Jennifer Stevenson, music by Teddy Thompson, Americana music from all over, and some live music from John Fogerty
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Tag Archives: folk music
Various artists’ Slovakia: Folk to Global
I grew up in a world that had a country called Czechoslovakia, which had formed in 1918 following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. It was broken up and mostly absorbed by Nazi Germany in the 1930s, reconstituted as part … Continue reading
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Tagged Balkan music, folk music, world music
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Jake Xerxes Fussell’s The Old Beloved Path
Jake Xerxes Fussell’s music is a balm in troubled times. It’s not just his drawling, honeyed vocals, or the nearly uniformly languid tempos, or his unhurried, uncluttered but precise guitar finger picking. For me at least, it’s the way his … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana music, folk music
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Helga Myhr’s Slåttespel
Helga Myhr has had a remarkable recording career considering she’s just barely in her early 30s. Remarkable in terms of both volume and variety. The Norwegian Hardanger fiddle player and singer has been a part of many projects across the … Continue reading
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Tagged folk music, Nordic music, world music
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Annick Odom’s Linen Of Words
When listening to “How Can I Keep From Singing,” the first song on Annick Odom’s Linen Of Words, you could be forgiven if you take the album as just another excellent example of traditional Appalachian folk ballads. That’s what this … Continue reading
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Tagged contemporary folk music, experimental folk music, folk music
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Hans Kjorstad’s Dålågjel
Listening to this album is like sitting on the perimeter of an after hours fiddle jam at a Scandinavian folk festival. Five fiddlers sawing away at hoary old Norwegian dance tunes, each of them occasionally swapping out the fiddle for … Continue reading
Alex Sturbaum’s Windjammer
Last time I caught up with Alex Sturbaum they had just released their excellent 2022 album Slash on which Alex played guitar to accompany a bunch of players of the fiddle, banjo, and nyckelharpa, most of them from the Pacific … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana music, folk music, Old Time music
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Los Super Seven’s Los Super Seven
Brendan Foreman wrote this review for Folk Tales. It was music producer Dan Goodman who envisioned gathering together a wide variety of musicians to cut an album that would show the wide influence and universal appeal of Mexican traditional music … Continue reading
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The Klezmatics’ Woody Guthrie’s Happy Joyous Hanukkah
Who knew? Woody Guthrie, the American folk singer and agitator of the Dust Bowl and the Depression, the writer of “This Land is Your Land” and “Roll On Columbia,” also wrote Hanukkah songs! And now, adding to his posthumous collaborations … Continue reading
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Tagged folk music, hanukkah music, holiday music, Klezmer music, Woody Guthrie
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Alan Light’s The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley & the Unlikely Ascent of ‘Hallelujah’
Do you feel a personal connection to the song “Hallelujah”? I certainly do, and to judge from Alan Light’s book The Holy or the Broken, so do millions of people all over the world. Light is a longtime music journalist, … Continue reading
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Tagged "Hallelujah", folk music, Leonard Cohen, music lore
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John A. Lomax and Alan Lomax’s American Ballads and Folk Songs, and Our Singing Country: Folk Songs and Ballads; and John W. Work’s American Negro Songs
The father-and-son team of John and Alan Lomax played a pivotal role in preserving American folk songs at a time when they may have stood in danger of being supplanted by recorded popular music. And they played the role of … Continue reading
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