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Folk Legend Odetta Dies At 77

2008-12-04 09:00:15 by admin in Rock Opinions
 
Odetta, the folk singer with the powerful voice who moved audiences and influenced fellow musicians for a half-century, has died. She was 77. Odetta died Tuesday (Dec. 2) of heart disease at New Yorks Lenox Hill Hospital, said her manager of 12 years, Doug Yeager
 
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Subgenre Coverfolk: Freak Folk (Devandra Banhart, Joanna Newsom, Animal Collective, Vetiver)

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2008-05-28 09:20:00 by boyhowdy in Cover Lay Down
In a MySpace age of hypenated multiple genre designation, the term folk is increasingly used by artists and promoters as a call to a specific approach to musicmaking usually characterized by acoustic instrumentation, and/or a sort of lo-fi confessional sensibility If we were cynics, we might suspect that the term is used primarily not to...
 
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WOMEX 2008 Educational Institution Award Goes to Folk Music Department of the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki

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2008-07-31 19:19:02 by WMCNewsDept. in World Music Central
Berlin, Germany - WOMEX announced today the winner of the WOMEX Award for Professional Excellence: the Folk Music Department of the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland. " Without the Folk department of the Sibelius Academy, there would be nothing like the folk scene there is in Finland. It's amazing the way it has allowed so many flowers to...
 
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Festival Coverfolk: Falcon Ridge Folk Fest, July 24-27 (The Nields, Patty Larkin, Martin Sexton, David Massengill)

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2008-06-18 13:21:00 by boyhowdy in Cover Lay Down
Gas isn't getting any cheaper, so now that you're back from the confusingly-named fields and stages of Bonnaroo , where Ben Folds retired his lush, hushed cover of Bitches Ain't Shit (see Fong Songs for a great live-from-Bonnaroo recording), it's time to start looking at a few festivals closer to home. For us, this means our own stomping...
 
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(Re)Covered VI: More Covers of and from Freak Folk, Gillian Welch, James Taylor, and Boxing Songs

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2008-07-02 18:43:00 by boyhowdy in Cover Lay Down
A long weekend of solo parenting while my wife headed off to Sonoma County for a long-overdue vacation has left me too exhausted for deep thought. Happily, thanks to reader emails, new releases and new discoveries, I've got plenty of material for yet another installment of our popular (Re)Covered series, wherein we recover songs that dropped...
 
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Covered in Folk: Pete Seeger (On Folk as an Engine of Social Change)

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2008-09-24 21:37:00 by boyhowdy in Cover Lay Down
Though I believe that folk, most especially in the way it functions as a channel of engagement and public discourse, is by definition an agency of cultural change, I have been reluctant to use this blog as a forum for advocating explicit change of any one type. Perpetuating the relevance of folk as an agenda in and of itself, it seems to me,...
 
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Emmet Spiceland - The First... (Very Good Irish Folk 1968)

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2008-02-18 17:25:00 by ChrisGoesRock in ChrisGoesRock
Size: 66.0 MB Bitrate: 256 mp3 Ripped by: ChrisGoesRock Artwork Included Japan 24-Bit Remaster The Emmet Spiceland was a band formed when brothers Brian and Michael Byrne of The Spiceland Folk Group joined forces with Donal Lunny, Brian Bolger and Mick Moloney's Emmet Folk Group around 1968 The Emmet Spiceland hold a special place in Irish...
 
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Covered in Folk: Paul Simon (From Bleeker Street to Indiefolk)

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2008-01-02 06:24:00 by boyhowdy in Cover Lay Down
The ninth post in our very popular Covered In Folk series addresses the solo output of Paul Simon. This is unusual -- with the exception of our ongoing Beatles series ( part 1 , part 2 ), previous posts have covered the total output of a given artist; see, for example, posts on the songs of Lou Reed and The Velvet Underground and Tim and Neil...
 
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New Artists, Old Songs: Celtic Folk Edition (Heidi Talbot, Grada, and Karan Casey)

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2008-06-04 09:48:00 by boyhowdy in Cover Lay Down
I've fallen far behind on my new music listening; the stack of great music out there grows faster than I can get to them, sadly. While I winnow down the pile, I've spent most of the week listening to some wonderful, relatively new folk releases from Compass Records , and let me tell you, I'm impressed The folks at indie roots label Compass, who...
 
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