Surfing through 20 or 30 pages of New Year’s Eve songs on YouTube is a depressing experience. The go-to song, of course, is “Auld Lang Syne.”...
Category - Folk
I have been meaning to post this for a while. One of my favorite clips that I’ve used at The Daily Music Break is Bert Jansch’s version of the song...
Brothers Ian and Dustin Meadows, who are from Chester, Connecticut, trace their roots to their parents record player — and beyond them to Hank Williams...
[column size=one_half position=first ]John Fahey was an American folk guitarist who lived from 1939 to 2001. He was an eccentric and troubled man who seemed to...
[column size=one_half position=first ] Richard Thompson’s career is hard to sum up because it is so long, varied and distinguished. Though he is thought...
Tom Paxton was born in Chicago in 1937 and spent his childhood in Oklahoma and Arizona. Wikipedia says that he was given his first stringed instrument, a...
Dave Van Ronk is refreshing, even 50 years later. I only feature two songs in a post, but if you have time also check out Stackerlee, (also known as Stagolee...
The two best YouTube clips of the influential folk revival group The New Lost City Ramblers are from Pete Seeger’s program Rainbow Quest. It’s no...
Acoustic Guitar Masters John Fahey: On the Sunny Side of the Ocean Bert Jansch: Reynardine/Angie Leo Kottke: Vaseline Machine Gun/Last Steam Engine Adrian...
The Binghamton University Glee Club perform Timshel by Mumford & Sons as part of its Sandcastles in the Sand end of semester show. The arrangement is by...
