Woody Guthrie – Dust Bowl Ballads
Woody Guthrie Dust Bowl Ballads Victor – 1940 / Folkways – 1964 Rating: 9.7 Everything that made Woody Guthrie an icon – his talentRead More…
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Harry Smith’s America: Part 3, Songs
This is the final installment in a three-part series about the music and impact of Harry Smith’s seminal 1952 compilation, Anthology of American Read More…
Harry Smith’s America: Part 2, Social Music
This is the second installment in a three-part series about the music and impact of Harry Smith’s seminal 1952 compilation, Anthology of AmericanRead More…
Harry Smith’s America: Part 1, Ballads
Eccentric? Yes. A polymath? Absolutely. Genius? Probably. I’ve seen countless definitions of the latter term, but for me, the one that tracks besRead More…
Welcome to Pre-War America Month
Certain phrases are fully capable of existing in a realm of ambiguity – with omitted details sufficiently implied by the surrounding context clueRead More…
Tom Sheehan – “God Help The World”
Tom Sheehan “God Help the World” Night Owl – 1970 Just around noon on June 22, 1969, a small section of the Cuyahoga River caught fireRead More…
Caetano Veloso – Caetano Veloso (A Little More Blue) (1971)
Caetano Veloso Caetano Veloso (A Little More Blue) Philips – 1971 Rating: 9.4 “Freedom of expression” remains a nebulous concept foRead More…
Ichiko Aoba – 0
Ichiko Aoba 0 Speedstar Int’l – 2013 Rating: 9.1 Ichiko Aoba’s fourth album is a minimalistic beauty: a near-masterpiece that matchRead More…