Welcome to the front porch of The Real Easy Ed, where each week I aggregate and update news, events, images, ideas, sound, fury, odds and ends. Just a little place to pause for a few minutes, get out of the sun […]
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This week, I’ve simply found the best photographs uploaded to this site and collected them into an entertaining slideshow. Explanations follow: I caught Patty Griffin, Sara Watkins, and Anais Mitchell on their third stop on a six-week tour that is […]
It was a cold November afternoon when I called Kentucky songwriter Joan Shelley, and she was out walking her dog. I could practically hear the crisp winter air around her, and she was slightly breathless from the cold. I was […]
That is one helluva picture. You might recall that it surfaced this past June after Neil Young demanded that Donald Trump stop using “Rockin’ in the Free World” at his campaign events. Utilizing his standard and preferred method of statesmanship, […]
A few decades ago, when I ran a record store in California, I must have been asked that question a few hundred times a day. They weren’t usually the first words spoken by a new customer, since ascertaining the whereabouts and accessibility […]
“We’ll start with a spooky one” said Kentucky-based singer Joan Shelley of the traditional folk ghost tale “Little Margaret” with which she started her set. Unaccompanied at first, even by her own guitar; the room was motionless and ready. Her […]
Electric Ursa is an album of strong words softly spoken. Created by Kentucky-based singer-songwriter Joan Shelley, it is a bare night sky of feeling and faded scene-setting, all pared down to the finest note — the finest, most evocative note. In a […]
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