Tag Archives: folk music

Mojna’s Väntenätter

Somehow I totally slept on this when it was released in the summer of 2024, but I recently fished it out of the digital folder where it was languishing and have been listening to it a lot. Väntenätter is the … Continue reading

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David Celia’s Organica

Michelle Erica Green wrote this review. If David Celia‘s Organica didn’t declare in the liner notes that all songs had been recorded in his house on a Macintosh G4, I would not have suspected this was a home-grown project. The … Continue reading

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Various artists’ Sing Me The Songs: Celebrating The Works Of Kate McGarrigle

After Kate McGarrigle died of cancer in 2010, her children Rufus and Martha Wainwright and her sister and longtime singing partner Anna McGarrigle organized a series of tribute concerts in London, Toronto and New York. This album presents on two … Continue reading

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Dick Gaughan’s Outlaws & Dreamers

This is the 11th solo album from Dick Gaughan and to my mind it’s his best in years. I should perhaps qualify that statement by pointing out that there’s absolutely no such thing as a poor Dick Gaughan album. I’m … Continue reading

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Dave Evans’s The Words In Between

No’am Newman wrote this review. The year 1971 found me as a dewy-eyed teenager sitting agog at the Bristol Troubadour. I had just discovered that my adopted home city had a strong “folk scene,” and that good music was always … Continue reading

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Various artists’ Folk and Great Tunes from Belarus

Here is yet another outstanding release in CPL-Music’s Folk and Great Tunes series. This one brings us a variety of contemporary folk music from Belarus, which is, sad to say, one of those former Soviet republics that most of us … Continue reading

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Various artists’ Forever Changing: The Golden Age of Elektra Records 1963-1973

Roots music, particularly blues, folk and even bluegrass, were the basis of huge chunks of ’60s rock and other popular music. Nowhere is that more evident than in this superb new Rhino collection of music from Elektra. Subtitled The Golden … Continue reading

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Bob Dylan’s Good As I Been To You

I hadn’t paid much attention to Bob Dylan for a few years, other than his participation in The Traveling Wilburys, when his 1992 album Good As I Been To You got a good review in Rolling Stone (to which I … Continue reading

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Bob Dylan’s Chronicles, Volume One

Is there a more important singer-songwriter? Has there ever been? When first I heard Dylan was writing a book — another book — I worried. Would this be Tarantula revisited? I remember Tarantula all too well. In 1966 the bookstore … Continue reading

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David and Gary review Bob Dylan’s Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited, Nashville Skyline, and Blood On the Tracks 2003 remasters

David starts: The first we heard was that Sony was sending GMR the whole set. All fifteen of the recently remastered, hybrid super-audio Dylan albums, “for the ultimate audio experience.” They were advertising it this way…”You could never improve the … Continue reading

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