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The Bristol Sessions: Writings About the Big Bang of Country Music (Contributions to Southern Appalachian Studies): Writings About the Big Bang of Cou

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2008-02-09 06:00:44 by Doug in 1st4music.net
The Bristol Sessions: Writings About the Big Bang of Country Music (Contributions to Southern Appalachian Studies): Writings About the Big Bang of Country to Southern Appalachian Studies CMA is dedicated to bringing the poetry and emotion of Country Music to the world. We will continue a tradition of leadership and professionalism, promotion...
 
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Electro-acoustic group soNu performs at Appalachian

2008-04-03 12:26:46 by Mike in Avant Music News
 
...Appalachian State University The Southern California based electro-acoustic improvisational group soNu will perform April 10 at Appalachian State University The 8 p.m. performance in Broyhill Music Centers Rosen Concert Hall is free and open to the public. A reception following the concert is sponsored by the universitys Diversity...
 
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JON SHAIN with ROBIN OHERIN, JP, 1/19

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2007-12-25 09:55:00 by Notlob in Notlob Music
...Appalachian mountain music. She plays bottleneck and fingerstyle guitar and mountain dulcimer Robin specializes in historically rich, often interactive concerts that include original and traditional American music, for schools, libraries and small listening rooms. Her concerts are warm, affirming experiences she shares with the audience ...
 
Tags: traditional american music, music, appalachian gospel music, professional acoustic blues, acoustic blues, blues, plymouth blues, piedmont blues, legendary blues artists
 
 
 
 
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Are You Tired Of Winter?

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2008-03-27 12:00:14 by Li Robbins in Radio 2 Blog
...Appalachian Spring , so today the show will play a performance of that piece featuring the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra It's wonderful music, and like jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown's Joy Spring , Copeland's Appalachian Spring has always struck me as a perfect musical evocation of the energy and renewal of the season But apparently Copeland...
 
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2006 Birdman Feature Worth Revisiting.

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2008-01-04 15:44:00 by Potsie Belcher in Revolver Distribution
...Appalachian ballads) and part cons (perhaps adding their own names to publishing rights on songs they never wrote, or paying for a phenomenal recording with a shot of whiskey). At the risk of sounding corny, a few were simply record-collector enthusiasts obsessed and in love with American music and intent on finding its living, breathing...
 
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The Story of Tom Dooley

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2008-01-11 11:27:00 by Joski in Merlin in Rags
...Appalachian speech, as in the term "Grand Ole Opry The doleful ballad was probably first sung shortly after the execution and is still commonly sung in North Carolina In the documentary Appalachian Journey (1991), Alan Lomax describes Frank Proffitt as the "original source" for the song. It is unclear exactly what Lomax means by...
 
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Jean Ritchie And Doc Watson Live At Folk City (1963)

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2008-03-22 17:33:00 by Joski in Merlin in Rags
...Appalachian family musical traditions on the stage of a hip Greenwich Village nightclub before an audience of fad-following New Yorkers. Nothing that improbable is allowed in fiction. The idea could only have come from folklorist Ralph Rinzler Doc Watson and Jean Ritchie had never heard of each other until Rinzler introduced them Doc was...
 
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Carolina Coverfolk, Volume 1: Songs of the South (Red Molly, Steve Forbert, Cris Williamson, Mike Seeger)

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2008-04-19 22:56:00 by boyhowdy in Cover Lay Down
...appalachian instrumentation and southern sound Red Molly, Oh My Sweet Carolina (orig. Ryan Adams Previously-featured sweet-voiced femme folk trio Red Molly covers this bittersweet tribute from North Carolina native son Ryan Adams with dobro, guitar, and harmony on their sole full-length album, the live Never Been To Vegas Mud Acres,...
 
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Vintage Q&A With the Decemberists' Colin Meloy

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2008-04-23 06:31:26 by HASH0x8bf4188 in Backbeat Online
...Appalachian gothic and murder ballads and things like that. And the line between that sort of subject matter, more Anglophile, Victorian subject matter, is very thin. A lot of the Irish and English folk songs from the 19th and 18th centuries became the Appalachian folk songs that we know. Theres a lot of transference there. I kind of move...
 
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