The liner notes contained no lyrics. No translation. Just this: “The text tells the story of a man and his wife who fled on skis from the Red Army during the Bolshevik Revolution. The man understood that the soldiers […]
The liner notes contained no lyrics. No translation. Just this: “The text tells the story of a man and his wife who fled on skis from the Red Army during the Bolshevik Revolution. The man understood that the soldiers […]
Reviewed: Albums by Hanggai, Mamer and Abigail Washburn One of my favorite recent albums is by this guy who used to be in punk band but then started getting into traditional folk forms and now plays in a roots-music group… […]
In case you missed it, Amy Goodman spent an hour with British singer/activist Billy Bragg on her Labor Day edition of Democracy Now. Click here to check it out. Bragg talks music and politics and performs a few tunes including […]
Telling stories and preserving history through song is a tradition that exists all over the world. I’ve long been drawn to the old ballads of America and Europe—particularly songs of the sea. If I had been a sea-faring man like […]
Telling stories and preserving history through song is a tradition that exists all over the world. I’ve long been drawn to the old ballads of America and Europe—particularly songs of the sea. If I had been a sea-faring man like […]