With so much happening during the past few weeks, there was not the time to hear from our favorite Pennsylvania contributor to this column, Mark J. Smith. Mark knows the Philadelphia Folk Festival well, and yet he always is discovering […]
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As the decades of contemporary music move beyond the nostalgic years of the past and into history, it is the most authentic of the singer-songwriters who have kept those times alive and relevant today. Folk singer Tom Paxton is chief […]
Tom Paxton was turning 80, and we were there! A sea of white hair much like the waves along the Outer Banks. With exceptions, the full house audience was comprised of those who’d entered the gates of adulthood listening to […]
Lucinda Williams – This Sweet Old World (September 29) I always thought Sweet Old World never got enough love. While the critics took to it, the newly minted alt-country crowd not so much. Did they want Volume 2 of the Rough Trade album? Was it too […]
Every art form goes through periods of intense transformation as artists discover new avenues and new methods to express themselves through the medium. Television is currently experiencing such a revolution, driven in part by advancements in streaming technology and the […]
It began a couple weeks back, when Eliza Gilkyson asked me, “Where does folk music fit within the Americana genre?” She asked it somewhat rhetorically, somewhat quizzically, since she has always regarded herself as a folksinger. I have ruminated on […]
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