Jean and Pete Partial content originally appeared in FolkWorks (www.folkworks.org) Remembering a great collaboration, I write “Liner Notes” this month remembering Pete Seeger and Jean Ritchie in friendship of song. First Meeting Pete states: “I was backstage at […]
Jalopy Records partners with Mississippi Records to release ‘Lost Train Blues’ – compiled for Alan Lomax’s 100th birthday with never-before-issued field recordings. This project excited me when I was told about it. What foresight some people had to make these […]
When Ed Vadas, a lifelong performer, songwriter, actor, philosopher, storyteller, teacher, and a musician’s musician, passed away on Feb. 18 at age 71, he left behind legions of friends, a remarkable legacy, and oh so many memories. Originally from Worcester, […]
At his death in 2002, Alan Lomax’s mark on American popular culture was reviewed with justifiable awe. Folk music curator at the Library of Congress from 1936 to 1950 his recording expeditions, mainly across the Southern states, documented the idiomatic […]
The Cajun band Feufollet is rolling down the highway to Columbus, OH, on the last third of their recent US tour, and their newest member – Appalachian singer, songwriter, and guitarist Kelli Jones-Savoy – is nervous. Her phone is dying, […]
In a letter written for Sing magazine in 1955, Pete Seeger wrote about his friend — and one of his biggest personal and professional influences — Huddie Ledbetter, a.k.a. Lead Belly: “Looking back, I think that the most important thing I learned from […]
