In his multi-faceted role as interpreter, writer, performer, and innovator of English folk music, Martin Carthy is considered by many to be a godfather of that tradition. Since the 1960’s folk revival he has been key in paving the way with […]
He might have been — no, he was — given the name Harry Peter Traum at birth, back at the beginning of May 1938 in the Bronx, New York, but Happy Traum goes by a nickname that says it like it is. A […]
Last Record Store Day I trundled out of the house to nearby Silver Platters Records, one of my go-to record stores in a city (Seattle) rife with great choices. Record Store Day has become something of an excuse for corporate […]
One of the world’s most formidable and original fingerstyle guitarists, Brit-born, New Orleans-based Martin Simpson turns his attention to the American south, land of constant musical miscegenation and imaginative license, and turns in the most urgent, bluesy recording of his […]
Martin Simpson’s recordings are a utopia of the acoustic guitar. Across them coalesce British, Irish, Scottish, Indian, Mississippi Deltan, Ozarkian, gypsy and European character alike. But Simpson’s signature glows through: the trilling and surging dynamics, that raw thunk of thumb […]
