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New Artists, Old(ish) Songs: Amie Miriello covers Smashing Pumpkins, Melissa Ferrick covers Bush, The Kooks cover MGMT

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2008-09-03 22:39:00 by boyhowdy in Cover Lay Down
...music that comes via email, especially not artists who come tagged with "folk rock" as a third choice MySpace afterthought. But though it speaks volumes about mass media usurpation of "folk" as a term of legitimacy, it also says surprisingly good things about the industry writ large that the same A&R exec who found Destiny's Child, Beyonce,...
 
 
 
 
 
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Covered in Folk: The Kinks (Ana Egge, Kate Rusby, Trappers Cabin, Sia, Old 97's and more)

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2008-08-30 23:08:00 by boyhowdy in Cover Lay Down
...music I accept as background music, enjoyable but already there, part of that diverse mix of sound which fills the air around us. And the continued prominence of Kinks classics on soundtracks and classic rock radio has served the occasional itch in a surprisingly timely manner, leaving me perfectly happy to let the songs come up through the...
 
 
 
 
 
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Covering The Working Life: Songs About Day Jobs (From Those Who Don't Have Them)

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2008-08-26 22:32:00 by boyhowdy in Cover Lay Down
Ever since I chose teaching as a career, Labor Day has been doubly relevant for me: an annual return to the classroom-as-job-site marked by a national holiday in celebration of the organized workplace This year, however, after leaving a teaching position that just wasn't working out, and subsequently spending the summer carrying hope from one...
 
 
 
 
 
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Jim Henry Covers: Richard Thompson, Robert Johnson, Doc Watson, etc.

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2008-08-24 00:01:00 by boyhowdy in Cover Lay Down
...musician for the likes of The Weepies, Mark Erelli , or Cliff Eberhardt, a guitar and mando collaborator with fellow stringwizard Brooks Williams a la Grisman and Garcia, or, most recently, as a David Rawlings to Tracy Grammer, whose career performing the songs of her late partner Dave Carter is much enriched by Jim's direct, honest string...
 
 
 
 
 
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(Re)Covered VII: More covers of Cyndi Lauper, Paul Simon, Britney Spears

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2008-08-19 20:54:00 by boyhowdy in Cover Lay Down
...music is immense; as such, as musicians new and rising continue to mine the cultural jetsam for songs that have some personal resonance, coverage of Paul Simon's vast catalogue remains vast and evergrowing From the recently "released" Bedroom Covers album from The Morning Benders , with its wonderfully hushed and lo-fi versions of many...
 
 
 
 
 
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Covered in Folk: Supertramp (Joe Crookston, Ian Ball, Drew Emmitt, Lili Haydn, and Me!)

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2008-08-17 00:28:00 by boyhowdy in Cover Lay Down
...band which was, after all, formed not out of some sense of artistic urgency, but on a millionaire patron's whim , which fueled then-unknown singer-songwriter Rick Davies' classified ad in popular industry mag Melody Maker. Perhaps it's the prog-rock era itself, its orchestral, larger-than-life poses shunned as anathema to the modern...
 
 
 
 
 
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RIP, Erik Darling 1933-2008 (Arranger of folksong, member of The Weavers)

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2008-08-13 23:47:00 by boyhowdy in Cover Lay Down
...music in the fifties and sixties The impact of this on folk, writ large, cannot be underestimated Though Darling was well known within the folkworld for his virtuoso stringwork, which graced early recording sessions of Ramblin' Jack Elliot, Judy Collins, Jean Ritchie, and others before becoming part of the core sound of such early folk...
 
 
 
 
 
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New and Noteworthy Coverfolk: Carrie Rodriguez, Mark Erelli, The Sacred Shakers (w/ Eilen Jewell)

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2008-08-10 10:42:00 by boyhowdy in Cover Lay Down
...music, bears repeating Mark Erelli is an old favorite of mine, ever since the high-folk production of 2001 sophomore release Compass and Companion started getting radioplay back in the mid nineties; since then, he's gone deeper into honky tonk and bluesfolk, and spent a good deal of time on the road as a guitar man, supporting the...
 
 
 
 
 
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