from Star-Telegram.com
Ramblin’ Jack Elliott lives up to his name
By PUNCH SHAW
Special to the Star-Telegram
FORT WORTH — There’s a reason he is not known as Concise Jack Elliott.
Folk legend Ramblin’ Jack Elliott’s performance at McDavid Studio on Friday night was short on songs but long on stories that tended to take on lives of their own.
But [...]
Archive for September, 2008
autumn equinox – a ramblin’ jack elliott review from the fort worth star-telegram
Posted in Ramblin' Jack Elliott, acoustic music, americana, banjo, bluegrass, bob dylan, busking, fiddle, folk music, oldtime music, traditional singer on September 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
criticism, introspection, dialectic and the process of artistic growth…
Posted in acoustic music, americana, banjo, bluegrass, busk, fiddle, folk music, oldtime music, traditional singer on September 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“(Art) demands of the artist the truthful, historically concrete representation of reality in its revolutionary development. Moreover, the truthfulness and historical concreteness of the artistic representation of reality must be linked with the task of ideological transformation and education of workers in the spirit of socialism….”
The Statute of the Union of Soviet Writers – 1934
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national speleological society – cave ballads awards
Posted in acoustic music, americana, banjo, bluegrass, busk, cave, caver, caving, fiddle, folk music, oldtime music, speleology, traditional singer on September 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I took an Honorable Mention (tie for third) and a Merit Award (tie for second) in this year’s National Speleological Society cave ballad competition. I am flattered and don’t know exactly how to act in the company of some insanely talented people. The fact that they are all cavers too is just icing [...]
clarence “gatemouth” brown’s coffin floats away in hurricane ike
Posted in acoustic music, americana, banjo, bluegrass, busk, fiddle, folk music, oldtime music, traditional singer on September 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From Yahoo News
Hurricane Katrina chased bluesman Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown from his adopted home in New Orleans to his hometown here on the Texas Gulf Coast, where he died in exile. Now, another hurricane has disturbed his rest.
The 1982 Grammy Award winner’s casket was one of dozens belched up by the ground [...]
canada – sleeping giant to the north
Posted in acoustic music, americana, banjo, bluegrass, busk, fiddle, folk music, oldtime music, traditional singer on September 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From Canada Votes – Election 2008
The NDP has fired one of its candidates in British Columbia after a video surfaced of him taking LSD, smoking more than 20 cannabis joints in a single go and driving while under the influence of drugs.
Dana Larsen, a former editor of Cannabis Culture magazine and [...]
new york times – “Dylan’s Poetic Pause in Hollywood on the Way to Folk Music Fame”
Posted in acoustic music, americana, banjo, bluegrass, bob dylan, busk, fiddle, folk music, oldtime music, traditional singer, tagged Add new tag on September 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From The New York Times
By JULIE BOSMAN
Barry Feinstein, the rock ’n’ roll photographer, was digging through his archives last year when he came across a long-forgotten bundle of pictures, dozens of dark, moody snapshots of Hollywood in the early 1960s.
And tucked next to the photographs was a set of prose poems, written around the same [...]
music as torture may incur royalty fees
Posted in acoustic music, americana, banjo, bluegrass, busk, fiddle, folk music, oldtime music, traditional singer on September 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Canadian lawyer suggests songwriters may be owed money –
David Gray admits using Babylon ‘is torture’
From The Times Online
International copyright law is a morass; a mighty difficult thing to navigate. We like to imagine it as a vast military base, crisscrossed with checkpoints and barbed-wire, where only the accredited experts can get in and out. [...]
