A few months ago, I saw Ramblin’ Jack Elliott play a one-man, acoustic show in New York City. He’s 80 years old now – but he stills plays strong chords and his voice, though struggling to hit those high notes, […]
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Should that be ‘Wussier’? Anyway, just in case you weren’t immediately persuaded that this is a band worthy of a little obsession, I thought I’d offer an update. Last Friday’s Guardian review of (new European compilation catch-up CD) Buckeye was in deliberately circumspect mode, […]
One of the things I look for in the music I choose to listen to are “connections”. Connections to the songwriters land, connections to the people, connections to family, connections to history. There seems to be an abundance of these […]
by Kim Ruehl, for FolkAlley.com Folk music can be a tricky thing sometimes.There’s a temptation, as an instrumentalist who knows and loves the way their instrument sounds, to follow any fluid emotion through an overreaching solo. When your bow draws […]
Yesterday, Robyn Ludwick released her video for the song Hollywood, one of the strongest songs on one of the strongest albums of last year, Out Of These Blues. My review of that record is here. So often artists are reduced […]
Wonderful change of pace and direction from The Poe I was a big fan of Larkin Poe’s 2010 collection of 4 EPs – Winter, Spring, Summer & Fall and subsequently went to see them play live twice that year. So, […]
Besides being a great song, Willie’s guitar solo in this performance is constructed just about perfectly. My parents are big fans of Willie Nelson, so I heard a lot of his music growing up. Until relatively recently, I had overlooked […]
July 8–Berkeley Rasputin‘s Sunday afternoon concerts always keep you guessing with what genre of music you might stumble upon while shopping on Telegraph on a gorgeous afternoon, and if you caught last week’s installment you will not soon forget it. […]
Forty years after the fact we are still absorbed in the music of the 1960s and 1970s and the people who created it. We are seeing memoirs from many of these folks, Bob Dylan started the ball rolling to be […]
Last January during the NEA Jazz Masters ceremonies at Lincoln Center, I blogged “Who should the next NEA Jazz Masters be?” and wrote, “My own list of deserving nominees — it starts with Eddie Palmieri.” Today the NEA announced its Jazz Masters […]
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