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Beck Covers: Hank Williams, Gram Parsons, The Flaming Lips, Nick Drake

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2007-11-12 14:36:00 by boyhowdy in Cover Lay Down
...folksinger, as both his less highly-produced projects and covers of his work demonstrate. Today's bonus selections, by KT Tunstall, Tom Petty, and Marianne Faithful, provide some tasty versions from the folkier side of this versatile performer's songbook, just to show how folk these songs really are. But Beck's 2002 album Sea Change ,...
 
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Guitar Absolution - Doug Jerebine

2008-03-13 16:42:00 by Andrew Schmidt in Mysterex
 
...folksinger, Bryce Petersen, fresh off his success with The House of Nimrod was in London flogging his songs. Petersen; " The last time I saw Doug was in London. He'd decided to turn an album out on his own called Jessie Harper. He bought it around and it blew me away. He played all the instruments and sung all the songs on it The tracks were...
 
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CHRIS MERENDA & ADAM SWEENEY parlor concert

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2008-03-31 18:27:00 by Notlob in Notlob Music
...folksinger... he combines intricate acoustic guitar hooks with powerful lyric storytelling Passim, January 2007 Drawing comparisons to Dave Carter and Gillian Welch, as well as folk revival poets like Paul Simon and Cat Stevens Northeast Performer, November 2006 Adam Sweeney is one of the more talented young west coast songwriters Tom May,...
 
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Utah "Caught The Westbound"

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2008-05-27 17:30:17 by Li Robbins in Radio 2 Blog
...Folksinger, Storyteller, Railroad Tramp Utah Phillips Dead at 73 Nevada City, California Utah Phillips, a seminal figure in American folk music who performed extensively and tirelessly for audiences on two continents for 38 years, died Friday of congestive heart failure in Nevada City, California a small town in the Sierra Nevada mountains...
 
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THE DEEP BLUES MUSiC AND FiLM FESTiVAL: Friday July 18th-Sunday July 20th 2008: Lake Elmo Minnesota: THE LiNE-UP!

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2008-06-23 18:28:00 by Rick Saunders in Rick Saunders Breaks His Silence
...Folksinger Jesus Knockin' MP3 Fuck The Devil MP3 CHARLiE PARR Charlie Parr claims to sound like some old loser from Duluth but dont you believe it. Charlie is just being overly modest because he is in fact one of the finest lyricists and guitarists working today. We could rank him with John Prine but we're gonna go a step higher and go with...
 
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DAVE CARTER BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE

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2007-07-13 19:30:00 by Notlob in Notlob Music
...folksinger and journalist Matt Watroba wrote, "It would make sense at this point, to say that Dave Carter was on the verge of something big. The truth, however, is that Dave was something big already. He moved the people lucky enough to know him or his music in a way that has launched an outpouring of tributes, memories and love." [10 Grammer...
 
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Billy Bragg Covers: The Beatles, The Smiths, Seeger, Guthrie, etc.

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2008-01-04 16:40:00 by boyhowdy in Cover Lay Down
...folksinger, cover artist, and man of the people Billy Braggs bio describes his early work as that of a one-man Clash, an electrified punker with singer-songwriter style. More generally, he is often categorized as anti-folk, though his early work is punk folk, an umbrella that includes such smashingly loud, mosh-pit bands as Flogging Molly...
 
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Single Song Sunday: Joni Mitchell's River (Holiday Coverfolk, Part 1)

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2007-11-25 08:40:00 by boyhowdy in Cover Lay Down
...folksinger favorites, from the Roches We Three Kings to the very best label-driven holiday compilations Today we begin our foray into the holiday coverfolk spirit with a focus on perhaps the first truly modern folk song to be brought into the cycle of once-a-year covers that is the Christmas Canon: Joni Mitchell's River For a Christmas...
 
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Covered In Folk: Cat Stevens / Yusuf Islam (Jack Johnson, Kristen Hersh, Gary Jules, Johnny Cash)

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2007-11-21 05:33:00 by boyhowdy in Cover Lay Down
...folksinger Eli bends Morning Has Broken -- a hymn made famous by Stevens -- just barely enough to sweeten it; thanks to Tim for promoting song and singer Johnny Cash and Fiona Apple collaborate to bring us a memorable, raw Father and Son retold through the haze of time. From Cash outtake collection Unearthed Liz Durrett 's breathy-soft,...
 
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