(From Part One) The world shares a voice when it comes to music, a central expression extracting the best and profoundest in us. Comprised always of sound, in its rhythms, reaches, and rampings up-and-down, music also includes silence, but not […]
Carrie Elkin The Penny Collector Tracks: 11 Carrie, who resides in Austin, Texas, first came to the attention of myself and many, when she toured over several years, with fellow Austinite Sam Baker. In fact, he is credited […]
Many of us have been waiting eagerly for over a year for Carrie Elkin’s new album, The Penny Collector. I’d heard some songs from The Penny Collector at last year’s Folk Alliance International (FAI) Conference in Kansas City. Carrie shared […]
The 2017 Folk Alliance International Conference, with its many facets and some public access, occurred from February 15 to 19 in Kansas City. Part One Prelude – The Impressionist Merge of Folky World-ness in KC There is music and there […]
Your head nods … suddenly you find yourself drifting into a sea of musicians, thousands … performers and bands marching forward and back in hotel guestroom hallways. Setting up in hotel room after hotel room from the dark of night […]
A few weeks ago, I wrote a column detailing five songs I wish I had penned. Writing that column made me realize just how many great songs there are in the world, most of which have been heard by far […]
I have played at a number of music festivals. From the smaller folk fests to hippie jam fests, and everything in between. These are the jewels in the crown of summer gigs. Usually they pay a little bit of money […]
Humankind’s foibles and failings are explored in the image rich Owls. Austin, Texas based Danny Schmidt (vocals, guitar) is supported on Owls by album producer David Goodrich (guitars, piano) and recording engineer Keith Gary (piano), plus Mike Meadows (drums, percussion), […]
“Dear Sam, dear Sam, I thought of you today / you were riding a train and it was safe,” sang Carrie Elkin as she conveyed, so elegantly, her feelings for Sam Baker. Baker is, and yet isn’t, defined by the […]
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