• Author

    Jerome Clark

    I'm the author of a number of books (on music-unrelated subjects), several winning awards for scholarly achievement.  I'm a former magazine editor. My writing has been published in a variety of magazines, including fRoots, Fortean Times, Sing Out!, Wired, Outside, and others, and my reviews of blues, country, and bluegrass releases appear regularly at the website Rambles.Net.  Songs I've co-written with Robin & Linda Williams have been covered by Emmylou Harris, Tom T. Hall, Seldom Scene, Mary Black, Mollie O'Brien, Mary Chapin Carpenter, and more.  I was first exposed to traditional music when I was a tiny kid, and I never got over it.  I live in a small town in southwestern Minnesota.

     

     



    Album Review
    Without the Blues
    Jerome Clark Posted On December 15, 2015


    Though unmentioned in the accompanying notes and credits, the photograph on the cover of The Rough Guide to the Blues Songsters depicts a black man whom the two white men who took the picture in 1897 identified only as “Happy […]


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    Swinging Down That Lonesome Road
    Jerome Clark Posted On November 17, 2015


    No, this is not another full-length Rhiannon Giddens album, just four months short of a year after the release of the much-praised, T Bone Burnett-produced Tomorrow Is My Turn. It’s nearly as good, though: more of the same. Factory Girl, a […]


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    Album Review
    Terror and Beauty from Daisy, Kentucky
    Jerome Clark Posted On November 13, 2015


    Roscoe Holcomb packed a vocal wail sufficient to puncture a hole in the fabric of the universe. Welling up out of a place of terror and beauty, that voice inspired folk song collector/New Lost City Rambler John Cohen to coin […]


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