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Jeff Black’s B-sides and Confessions Volume One
I am reliably told that Jeff Black is one of the finest Nashville songwriters working today. My friend Wayne Marshall (record producer and songwriter) saw Black play in a little club near Music Row, and was held spellbound. On this, … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana music, folk music
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Dick Gaughan’s Lucky For Some
Dick Gaughan comes with a huge reputation and following as a traditional singer and songwriter, so I was quite excited and expected to hear something good. Unfortunately, I can’t say this album set my pants on fire. Quite the opposite … Continue reading
Slavyanochka Ensemble’s Molodoi Tud Wedding, and Vereya’s Soitua Maa
Here are two recent recordings by women’s vocal ensembles from different regions of Russia. In these reviews I compare them to other Eastern European women’s vocal groups. I offer the comparisons only as an aid for Western listeners. The comparisons … Continue reading
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Tagged Finno-Russian music, folk music, folk-rock, russian folk music, world music
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Various artists’ Deep River of Song: Virginia and the Piedmont
Big Earl Sellar wrote this review. Another disc in the Alan Lomax series Deep River of Song, Virginia and the Piedmont has the fitting subtitle of “Minstrelsy, Work Songs, and Blues.” These great archival recordings are just the thing for … Continue reading
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Various artists’ Deep River of Song: Black Appalachia
Brendan Foreman wrote this for Folk Tales. In 1978 Alan Lomax, looking back at a decades-long career of field-recording, began to review the huge library of music that he and his father, John Lomax, had compiled in the 1930s and … Continue reading
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Various artists’ Deep River of Song: Big Brazos: Texas Prison Recordings, 1933 and 1934
Big Earl Sellar wrote this review. Another set of field recordings made by the Lomaxes, Big Brazos focuses on the songs of the black work gangs in the early 1930s. It’s an interesting disc, another one of those brief moments … Continue reading
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Väsen and Hawktail in concert
OK, so I haven’t been paying close attention, but I signed on to go see Väsen and Hawktail on a damp February night in Oregon. Because I’ll pretty much always go see the contemporary Swedish roots musicians of Väsen when … Continue reading
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Hajda Banda’s Hajda!
Hajda!, the debut album by Hajda Banda (Гайда Банда) is a captivating journey into the rich musical traditions of the Podlasie region in eastern Poland, the western parts of Belarus, and Polesye on the Polish-Ukrainian-Belarusian border. The album showcases the … Continue reading
Various artists’ Nua Teorainn
Patrick O’Donnell wrote this review. We’ve been taught since birth that change is constant. Each day is followed by a new day, each year by a new year, each bringing something just a little different than before. We’ve also been … Continue reading
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Tagged Celtic music, English folk music, folk music
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The Bushwackers’ 25th Jubilee
Earlier this year I had the pleasure of reviewing The Bushwackers’ Australian Song Book album. This marked the 30th Anniversary for The Bushwackers, established in 1971. However, the 25th Jubilee album slipped through my grasp until just recently. The Australian … Continue reading
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