Lucinda Williams (credit: Gibson Guitar ) From Folk & Blues: An Encyclopedia, Lyndon & Irwin Stambler,...
Folk & World Music
I recently wrote a post praising iTunes for coming up with an inexpensive, easy to use music...
Bruce Springsteen has written an eloquent statement, Chords for Change, in the New York Times explaining why...
All of you Mac and iTunes users out there are going to roll your eyeballs in disgust...
I just heard a great cover of Gillian Welch‘s Everything is Free on KBCS-FM. The performer enunciated...
What can one say about the great Ray Charles that a thousand music critics and bloggers haven’t...
Vasen: Josefins Dopvals (hear it) (Josephine’s Baptismal waltz): Spirit [3:49] I’m trying to use Ecto’s Media Insertion...
Hesperion XXI at Berkeley concert duringprevious U.S. tour (credit: funfolks.com) Yesterday night, I had the great privilege...
Barcelona Haggadah (14th century),Jews departing synagogue(credit: modia.org) Historical Background: In this current age of venomous Arab-Jewish relations,...
Israel holds a deep place in the Jewish psyche. But few non-Israeli songwriters seem to write about...
‘Ninna Nanna’ cover art Ninna Nanna: Lullabies by Montserrat Figueras (Alia Vox AV 9826) From the moment...
Why would I have any interest in this old war horse of a song? The lyrics (such...
