Tag Archives: folk
Green Thursdays: Woody Guthrie’s 1942 New Year’s Resolutions Resonate Today
From Tree Hugger: Boingboing/via Mark at BoingBoing shows us Woody Guthrie’s new years resolutions for 1942. The great American folksinger (This Land is Your Land) had some that would be good for all of us today, such as Eat good-fruit- … Continue reading
Growing Grassroots Music with C.MON
I’ve never felt like as much of a music discoverer as I did when I stumbled past C.MON busking on a lakefront in Queenstown, New Zealand. Of all the… lakefronts in all the world, y’know. C.MON is the musical pseudonym … Continue reading
The Duke & The King: new old New York folk sentiment
“I lost myself…” … in the artistic lullabies on The Duke & The King’s eponymous new record. These guys are just lovely. There’s no pretense about their music, and nothing in the mix that doesn’t need to be. It is, … Continue reading
New music from Mumford & Sons
I’d really hate to have to follow up the awesomeness that was Mumford & Sons debut album. But apparently the band has a method to how they’re going to do that – “play a bunch of new songs at shows, … Continue reading
The Tallest Man On Earth: a really little poet
There’s something you need to know about The Tallest Man On Earth – he’s a little Swedish imp. When we saw him perform at Shepherd’s Bush Empire in London last month, I spent the first few songs of his performance … Continue reading