Even with a cracking band led by her husband John McCusker, Heidi Talbot took a chance by opening her Main Stage set with a singalong. Luckily, a Cambridge Folk Festival crowd is a resilient bunch and even those still recovering […]
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About six years ago, Kelly House Concerts in St. Louis presented Justin Townes Earle, a young man who was all but unknown save for his famous last name. On Saturday night, KHC presented Curtis McMurtry – son of musician James, […]
Many of you who’ve already read “Calling Me Home” have asked about the man whose the subject of Chapter Five, “Coon Dog’s Secret.” With his family’s permission, here are a couple of vintage photos of him: Dad Pics 1.pdf After […]
After a day of rain and drenched shoes squishing through mud, the second day of this year’s Newport Folk Festival was beating with sun. Arriving a little late, I took a seat at the back of the crowd around the […]
This time next Saturday, I’ll be up and getting ready for the second day of Reevstock Music Festival in Elkin, NC. I’ll most likely be reminiscing happily of the opening night of the Festival, the night before, at The Liberty, […]
AMERICAN KID is Patty Griffin’s first album of new material in six years. Honouring her late father, the songs are personal, visceral, passionate, emotional and all the more so for being sung live in the atmospheric Victorian gothic surroundings of […]
Launching his terrific new album Vagrant Stanzas on the Main Stage, Martin Simpson reflected that he’d been coming to the Cambridge Folk Festival since he was a teenager, playing onstage for the first time in 1976. This year he celebrated […]
It is one of life’s continuing mysteries how as good a songwriter as Tom Russell manages to stay below so many music fans’ radar. His gig at Hove’s Palmeira pub was the last on a British tour which I haven’t seen written […]
JJ Cale was nothing if not organic. Simple tunes with simple melodies and a blues bent were his trademark. He wasn’t a bad guitarist either, but Cale himself admits he knew he’d have to do more than play guitar if he […]
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