Category: Folk music
English Chanson
9×2: Contemporary English Chanson Harvey Andrews: Manet and Monet (6.00) Harvey Andrews: The Waiting Room (3.28) Pete Atkin: Beautiful Changes (3.51) Pete Atkin: Star of…
Fairport Convention – A Peculiar Old Weekend (Cropredy 1982)
I may have been there or it might have been a different year. These early festivals were almost private parties compared with what came later….
Fairport Documentary 2017
I have a feeling that I will be watching this more than once. Share This:
Roy Bailey R.I.P
Seeing Roy Bailey, mostly adding a soaring singing voice to Leon Rosselson’s songs, but at the same time a man committed to making the world…
Bright Phoebus RE-RELEASED
There is no album closer to my heart than Bright Phoebus credited to Mike and Lal Waterson, (it involves their sister, Norma). It’s finally been properly…
A Triumph of Dylanology
My professor Bryan Cheyette aside from being a literary scholar is a Dylanologist. In a personal sense, Dylan is a connection–when I first began to…
THE MEKONS – Existentialism Review
Review of the new Mekons book and CD in Punk Online Full disclosure, I love The Mekons. I always have. Existentialism opens with a track that…
Withered and Died Cover
Angel Olson and Marissa Nadler sing “Withered and Died” Share This:
Chicago the Epicenter of the Alt-Country Boom
This article appeared on the Pitchfork website: How Chicago Became the Epicenter of the Alt-Country Boom in 1998 A chronicle of the city’s country music history,…
Owl Service Review from The Wire
Favourite new adventurous folk band, The Owl Service, named after a favourite book by a favourite author. Album review in the latest issue of The Wire….
