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Here's the first song (that Rhapsody won't let you play) from Mindy's new album Stupid Love.Mindy Smith is truly an Americana Treasure!
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Most Recent Folk Posts For This Week
New Americana from Mindy Smith: Stupid Love
Pitchfork Review Hospice
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After a gazillion years ( 2 YEARS GO CHECK MY OLDER POSTS DAMN IT) of talking about them to everyone i know and basically doing everything but shoving the album in their lymph nodes-#The Antlers have a 8.5 from bitchfork. ok pitchfork but i heard someone say that and it was pretty funny in a ''hahah bitchfork...i love that place'' kind of way.http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/13196-hospice/It...
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BLUES: A little more Seasick Steve
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IMHO, Seasick Steve is the best "new" blues artist to come around in a long time. Generally, once you leave the Wolf/Muddy era, I lose interest. But a sample track on a UK Magazine CD alerted me, and I finally sprung for one of the two import CDs available. For some reason, Steve has seen NO U.S. releases."One True" is typical SS, and it's about loving your dog, which is always a topic that I r...
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William T. Vollmann - Imperial
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Me and my sweetie headed down to Moe's last night to hear William T. Vollmann read from his new 1350 page book "Imperial". If I had 55 smackers to blow on a book at the moment I would have bought it for sure. I hadn't heard Vollmann read since back in the "Whores For Gloria" days. He seems more at ease with himself and not as creepy as I remembered him. I guess moving out of the Tenderloin and ...
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How My Wife and I Cought Crabs On Our Honeymoon - Scotch and Soda
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When my wife-to-be Kathy and I were planning our honeymoon, she read a magazine article called, "The Five Most Romantic Places In the World To Go For a Sex-Crazed Getaway", or something like that. The closest one was Wild Dunes, on Isle of Palms, South Carolina, near Charleston. We went there. And it was sooo romantic. We had a condo on the beach with a deck on the roof where we could go a...
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Lightfoot banned in the U.S.A.
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Black day in JulyMotor city madness has touched the countrysideSo begins Lightfoot's Black Day In July, a song Lightfoot wrote about the 1967 race riots in Detroit. But after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. a week earlier - on April 4, 1968 - many top-40 radio stations in the U.S. refuse to play the song. They fear the lyrics will ignite violence. Lightfoot tells CBC Radio, he's no...
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SUTC:Barbara & Ernie
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Track:Somebody To Love- '71
The democratizing power of the internets have made it so just about any musican, whether pro or am, can assert themselves and step out into the public sphere. In a lot of ways, they have to in order to get heard. On the other hand, in the heavily gated "old" music industry there was a bright line between behind the scenes folk(studio musicans,songwriters, producers) and the out front, "talent....
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THE REQUISITE DYLAN COVER.......By Lucinda Williams.
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......Ok. No one is gonna match the pure corrosive bile of Dylan's original, & no one should try. Positively 4th Street still stands as a magnificently malignant kiss off, no matter how its performed. Lucinda Williams here with a nice accoustic rendition that is not without merit
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The Lion On The Path - Mbira Tale
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I was not there, but once there was a farmer named Kwasi (KWAH-see) who lived happily with his wife Kumaa (Koo-MAH). Except for one thing: Kumaa came from a large family in another village. And she often felt lonesome for her relatives.One day, Kwasi and Kumaa were working in the field where they grew yams. They were both hoeing and weeding out in the hot, hot sun, until Kumaa thought she co...
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Enjoy a Summer Roadtrip with The Northwoods
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I stumbled upon this band in a blog that did a beautiful take on folk music. This is the kind of music you take with you on a summer drive up the coast to Maine with a loved one. Its that feel good summer music that just makes you feel like your floating around in your own little world. "The sound and soul of The Northwoods is both familiar yet new. Listen carefully and you will hear echoes o...
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Rock & Reel to blow the roof off!
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This one is from the 1992 release "The Chase". This Scottish Celtic-Rock band still is out there doing their thing. I love this number for a lot of reasons. I first heard it on the headphones at a store, sitting on a sofa. Starts out as a good acoustic folk song - protest song. Then the electric guitar comes in Bomp Bomp Bommmm, etc.! And I think, "Oh, No! It's going to be heavy metal!" ...
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Amy Speace's new record is ready for you at http://cdbaby.com/cd/amyspeace4
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Track:The Killer In Me
check out Amy Speace's new record The Killer In MeYou can buy this record at http://cdbaby.com/cd/amyspeace4Check out this video too:
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Pauline Kyllonen performs at Merritt Mountain Music Festival - July 9th, 2009
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Vernon singer/songwriter Pauline Kyllonen has been invited to showcase at this year's Merritt Mountain Music Festival, not once, but three times.She performs a showcase set on July 9 at 8 p.m. on the Little Big Stage, and will also perform during the It All Started with a Song event, located in the activity tent, July 9 and 11 from 11:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93LpUJk...
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SHOUTING THE BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOM
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....We here in the U. S. of A. begin our celebration of Freedom today. We make a very big thing out of The Fourth Of July, with parades & Fireworks & Barb-b-ques & cookouts & what-not. We here in Rhode Island we have whats said to be the oldest fourth of july parade in the country. I've never seen it. Never had the desire. Even as a child, when the family went (if they did) i didn't, there...
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Finding some funk with John Martyn
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John Martyn's classic album from 1977 has now been Digitally Remastered and is available as a 2CD Deluxe Edition. This new remastered Deluxe Edition of One World is augmented by a disc of bonus material, including five One World numbers recorded live at Regent's Park in the summer of 1978. To round the package off, there are alternate versions and demos of the album tracks, including the sought...
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