It was a fine spring evening when we gathered at Gary’s Chop Shop to record Fourth Time Around. Beth Orton and Sam Amidon were there, and Jessie Carrot, just in from Oregon, joined David Mansfield and Dave Schramm as the […]
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We’re all watching Treme, the HBO series about New Orleans three months after Katrina, right? It sets a new standard for genuine roots music on tv. Forget about American Idiot — er, Idol, VH1 or even David Sanborn’s late, lamented […]
Cover Wars – REM vs. The Troggs: http://www.magnetmagazine.com/2010/04/21/take-cover-r-e-m-vs-the-troggs/ Amazing piano work on this version of “I’ve Got Rhythm”: http://www.fark.com/cgi/vidplayer.pl?IDLink=5198752 Annoying Starbucks People: http://www.holytaco.com/9-most-annoying-people-starbucks The “new” Stones video: http://tinyurl.com/2funr3s Stream the new, um, The New Pornographers disc: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126174756
It’s not musicians high on a stage, audience at their feet. That’s not what the Calgary Folk Festival is all about. It’s the exchange that inevitably happens between those performing and those listening which makes the whole experience far greater […]
Hearth Music: What We’re Listening To in April 2010 What We’re Listening To is a new type of blog entry intended to give all our friends a quick sample of the various CDs we’ve been listening to over the past […]
Carole King – The Essential Carole King (Ode/Epic/Legacy, 2010) Brill Building legend Carole King has really had two full music careers. Starting in the late 1950s and flourishing in the 1960s, she was part of the legendary stable of New […]
CONTEST NOW CLOSED. Congratulations to Mr. Edyoulis, who will be going to Telluride as our community blogger this year. Stay tuned for his updates from the festival grounds! And thanks to all who entered. The 37th Annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival […]
Strumming a small child’s guitar and tapping a giant bass drum that rattles like an earthquake, Amanda Jo Williams spins country-fried yarns about growing up in Georgia, hitchhiking to Woodstock, the men she’s loved and the cosmos she abides by, […]
As my kids get older a major goal of mine is to slowly introduce them to more music other than the kids bop and Wiggles. Thank God for the Avett Bros. listening to Kick Drum Heart with my kids was […]
I have been attending and volunteering for the Calgary Folk Festival since 1996. As I’ve mentioned before, the Festival has grown during that time, offering more diverse and mainstream acts, and witnessing a bigger audience every year. As with any […]
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