The Canadian guitarist/singer/songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, in the words of Band guitarist Robbie Robertson, is a “national treasure.” His catalog...
Tag - folk music
Huffington Post this week posted two recordings from Jerry Garcia when he was 18 years old. The recordings of “All My Trials” and “Trouble in Mind”, the...
The singer Bedouine has quite a background: Azniv Korkejian – Bedouine – is of Armenian descent. She was born in Aleppo, Syria and grew up in Saudi Arabia. A...
H/T: Walter W. Before I heard them, the name My Morning Jacket suggested a proper and correct group of gentlemen who sipped tea and perhaps indulged in some...
Leadbelly — Huddie Ledbetter — is a legend. The outlines are contradictory: Leadbelly was a murderer who sang kids songs and became a bedrock of...
Running into music written and performed by an individual — Lorde — who is the same age (to be precise, 15 days older) than my youngest child is an...
I didn’t liked Elton John when I was young. Youth defend their cultural choices aggressively, and I was into The Grateful Dead, Hot Tuna and that...
The Roots are busy: They are a very successful hip-hop group and, at the same time, the house band for “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.” I am not...
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...
