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Peter Stampfel’s 20th Century: 100 Years of Popular Music, Renewed and Reinvented 

February 23, 2021February 23, 2021 j. poet 0 Comments Big Star, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Chumbawamba, Crowded House, Holy Modal Rounders, Peter Stampfel, Peter Stampfel's 20th Century, The Beatles, The Spice Girls

An exclusive chat with the American folk legend about his ambitious salute to pop’s first hundred years

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Folk Pop 

Hello Darkness: Simon & Garfunkel’s Sounds of Silence Turns 55

January 26, 2021January 26, 2021 Jordan Blum 0 Comments 1966, Art Garfunkel, Chromatics, Disturbed, Glen Campbell, Hal Blaine, Joe Osborn, Larry Knechtel, Paul Simon, Red House Painters, Simon & Garfunkel, Sounds of Silence, The Sound of Silence, The Wrecking Crew, Tom Wilson, Vinnie Bell

The folk rock duo’s second album was the one that saved them, and us

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Art Pop Electronics Experimental Folk Hip Hop Indie Rock 

Don Giovanni Records’ Quest To Share Honest Cultural Narratives Forges On

January 12, 2021January 12, 2021 Justin Joffe 0 Comments Bad Moves, Don Giovanni Records, Marissa Paternoster, Modern Hut, Moor Mother, Supercrush, Teenage Halloween

Don Giovanni co-founder Joe Steinhardt on cultivating narrative truth, the label’s plans for 2021 and his new album with Screaming Females’ Marissa Paternoster 

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Folk Noise Rock 

Bob Hillman: Making Noise With Ghosts

December 30, 2020December 30, 2020 j. poet 0 Comments Bob Hillman, Bob Hillman & Spooky Ghost, Gerry Leonard, Inside and Terrified, San Francisco, Suzanne Vega

He may be Inside and Terrified, but he remains one of San Francisco’s most prolific songwriters

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Folk 

Got a One Way Ticket to the Promised Land: The Ghost of Tom Joad at 25

December 18, 2020December 18, 2020 Brody Kenny 0 Comments 1995, Bruce Springsteen, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Rage Against the Machine, The Ghost of Tom Joad

What Bruce Springsteen’s late 1995 folk masterpiece means in the modern day

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Folk Indie Rock 

Dust Bowl Faeries: Soulful Music Born in the Days of the Pandemic

December 1, 2020December 1, 2020 j. poet 1 Comment Dust Bowl Faeries, Hudson Valley, Ryder Cooley, The Plague Garden, Upstate NY

The otherworldly Hudson Valley group won’t let a plague break their stride

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Folk 

Jules Shear Ruminates on Records, Pooches and Perfect Covers

November 30, 2020December 1, 2020 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments Bob Dylan, Brian Wilson, Jules Shear, Omnivore Recordings, Slower, the Dave Clark Five, The Funky Kings, The Reckless Sleepers, Todd Rundgren

A new album named Slower shows Shears’ knack for songs that sound like standards

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Country and/or Western Folk North Americana 

Bobby Bare Sings Shel Silverstein Plus: Outlaw Country’s Odd Couple Honored at Last

November 27, 2020November 27, 2020 Jim Allen 1 Comment 2020, Bear Family, Bobby Bare, Bobby Bare Sings Shel Silverstein Plus, Shel Silverstein

An epic, overdue box gives the overlooked duo its due

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Country and/or Western Dead Folk Rock 

Ripple In Still Water: American Beauty At 50

November 17, 2020November 17, 2020 Lee Zimmerman 1 Comment 50th anniversary, American Beauty, Attics In My Life, Box of Rain, Grateful Dead, Pigpen, Ripple, Sugar Magonlia, Touch of Grey, Truckin'

A Grateful Dead classic still shines a half-century later

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Folk Rock 

You Dress In Black, But You Talk Like a Fed: Hawks & Doves at 40

November 15, 2020November 15, 2020 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments 1980, 40th Anniversary, David Briggs, Hawks & Doves, Neil Young

Reassessing a previously panned Neil Youg gem released at the cusp of the Reagan Years

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Folk Pop 

Joni Mitchell’s Salad Days

November 10, 2020 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments 2020, Archives Volume 1--The Early Years (1963-1967), Box sets, CSNY, Fairport Convention, Joni Mitchell, Judy Collins, Rhino, Tom Rush

The Early Years (1963-1967) offers a generous glimpse at the genesis of Joni’s genius

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Folk Rock 

Another Prine Makes It Two of a Kind

October 28, 2020October 28, 2020 Lee Zimmerman 2 Comments A Place I Used To Know, Billy Prine, Bob Dylan, Elizabeth Cotton, Fleetwood Mac, Jimi Hendrix, John Prine, Johnny Cash, Oh Boy Records

John’s younger brother Billy makes it known that he can make music of his own

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Folk jazz Pop 

ALBUMS: The Cat is Back With An Extra Helping of Tea

October 23, 2020October 23, 2020 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments 1970, 2020, Alun Davies, Bruce Lynch, Cat Stevens, Paul Samwell-Smith, Tea for the Tillerman, Tea for the Tillerman², Where Do The Children Play, Wild World, Yusuf

50 years later, Yusuf pays one more visit to the Tillerman with this beguiling remake of his beloved classic

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Folk Pop 

Joan Baez, Judy Collins & the Female Folk-Pop Rebellion of 1965

October 1, 2020September 30, 2020 Mitchell Cohen 0 Comments 1965, Bo Diddley, Cher, Donovan, Ike & Tina Turner, Joan Baez, Judy Collins, Phil Spector, Ray Charles, Roger Miller, Sonny Bono, The Byrds, The Lovin’ Spoonful, The Ronettes

For singers like Baez and Collins, the revolution happened at an opportune time

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Blues Folk 

ALBUMS: The Levee Still Rises

September 20, 2020September 20, 2020 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments 2020, Allen Toussaint, Billy Conway, Chris Smither, More From The Levee, Signature Sounds, Still On The Levee

Chris Smither reboots more songs from his vast repertoire 

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