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…

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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….

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Fairport Documentary 2017

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Withered and Died Cover

Angel Olson and Marissa Nadler sing “Withered and Died” Share This:

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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,…

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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….

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