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A Baker's Dozen of Trains

2008-04-07 09:55:00 by whiteray in Echoes In The Wind
 
...freight. Amtrak uses the route for its passenger service, which stops here twice a day, heading east to the Twin Cities and Chicago in the early morning and heading west across the plains after midnight Paul Simon wrote, Everybody loves the sound of a train in the distance. Im not sure about everybody, but its true for me, and I imagine for...
 
Tags: train, memphis train, train travel, mystery train, glendale train, blue train, black train, faint train horn, freight train
 
 
 
 
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Carolina Coverfolk, Vol. 2: The Songs of Elizabeth Cotten

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2008-04-22 00:57:00 by boyhowdy in Cover Lay Down
...Freight Train , which was written when Cotten was eleven, and a full set of folkvariants on the timeless Shake Sugaree , from the hearty tones of folk blues legends Chris Smither and Taj Mahal to the delicate second-wave folk field recordings of indie newcomer Laura Gibson and the previously-featured grunge-folk goddess Mary Lou Lord Jerry...
 
Tags: folk, folk musicians, rural folk forms, american folk forms, north carolina mainland, north carolina, folk strands, folk movement, north carolina fingerpicker
 
 
 
 
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Carolina Coverfolk, Vol. 2: The Songs of Elizabeth Cotten

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2008-04-22 07:57:00 by boyhowdy in Cover Lay Down
...Freight Train , which was written when Cotten was eleven, and a full set of folkvariants on the timeless Shake Sugaree , from the hearty tones of folk blues legends Chris Smither and Taj Mahal to the delicate second-wave folk field recordings of indie newcomer Laura Gibson and the previously-featured grunge-folk goddess Mary Lou Lord Jerry...
 
Tags: folk, folk musicians, rural folk forms, american folk forms, north carolina mainland, north carolina, folk strands, folk movement, north carolina fingerpicker
 
 
 
 
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Laura Gibson

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2008-05-16 06:15:00 by Sean in Mainstream Isn't So Bad...Is It?
...Freight Train ( Elizabeth Cotten 4. One Thin Dime ( Mance Lipscomb 5. Black Is The Color of My True Love's Hair (Traditional 6. Dry Land Blues ( Furry Lewis ) Laura really does an incredible job of taking these timeless songs and making them her own, while still retaining links to the past. You can listen to the first track, All the Pretty...
 
Tags: gibson, laura gibson, laura, blues, dime blues, dry land blues, freight train, pretty horses, blind lemon jefferson
 
 
 
 
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Concert Best Bets: Feb. 6-10

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2008-02-06 19:03:24 by Jim in The Concert Blog
...Freight and Salvage Coffee House on Sunday (Feb. 10) as warm as an Aloha! greeting on a beach in Maui Thats just what happens whenever (and wherever) slack key guitar is being played. Few are better at plucking and strumming this style of traditional Hawaiian acoustic music, known as ki-hoalu, than Ledward Kaapana and Mike Kaawa. The former,...
 
Tags: feb, slack key guitar, hotel utah saloon, slacker sunday, discover jazz, sunday, hotel utah, organizations discover jazz, art blakey
 
 
 
 
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Martyn Joseph: The Welsh Bruce Springsteen?

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2008-02-18 09:41:38 by Jim in The Concert Blog
...Freight and Salvage in Berkeley Showtime is 8 p.m. Freight and Salvage is at 1111 Addison St. Tickets are $18.50. Call 510-548-1761 or visit www.thefreight.org
 
Tags: martyn joseph, joseph, local folk fans, salvage, bruce, music lovers, fan base, freight, live performers
 
 
 
 
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Country Joe McDonald: A long look at a local legend

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2008-02-22 08:24:12 by Jim in The Concert Blog
...Freight and Salvage Coffee House in Berkeley. The singer-songwriter has been paying tribute to Guthrie, off and on, for most of his career. His first post-Fish release was 1969s Thinking of Woody Guthrie, which was recorded just two years after the honoree died, and his most recent offering is A Tribute to Woody Guthrie , a two-disc live set...
 
Tags: music, electric music, music business, country joe, straight-ahead folk music, country, joe, mcdonald, local music scribes
 
 
 
 
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Was Townes Van Zandt better than Dylan?

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2008-02-26 16:47:46 by takecountryback in Taking it Back to the Roots!
...Freight Liner Blues, To Live is to Fly - and songs of desolate sadness - For the Sake of the Song, Awaiting Around to Die. Van Zandt sounds as though he is rolling steadily between soaring mountains and sinking slums, taking it all in raw and unmediated Not all is sadness, however. Though not immediately discernible, there is also rich humour...
 
Tags: van zandt, townes van zandt, american country music, road songs, music, songs, van zandts songs, life, van zandt sounds
 
 
 
 
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Classic Railroad Songs from Smithsonian Folkways

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2008-03-24 10:39:00 by Joski in Merlin in Rags
...Freight Train - Cotten, Elizabeth 8. Drill Ye Tarriers Drill - Houston, Cisco 9. Zack The Mormon Engineer - Hilton, L.M 10. Lost Train Blues - Virginia Mountain Boys 11. FFV - Watson, Anne 12. He's Coming To Us Dead - New Lost City Ramblers 13. Train That Carried My Girl From Town - Watson, Doc 14. Rock Island Line - Leadbelly 15. Lonesome...
 
Tags: songs, classic railroad songs, train, lost train blues, railroad, timeless songs, traditional songs, river train, remarkable folk songs
 
 
 
 
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Scott Amendola Shows

2008-05-23 06:45:19 by Mike in Avant Music New