Hi-Fi Infidelity: "Me and Mrs. Jones"
The door swings open as we pass the café. The A/C is turned up all the way, and we are embraced by a coolly seductive rush of air. We catch an irresistible cosmopolitan groove from the jukebox and can no longer stand out in the heat. We duck in,
The Gospel According to Peter May
There's an old rugged wooden cross standing in a weed strewn field. A battered resonator guitar with kudzu entwined round the neck leans against it. That stark image is the outside introduction to Winston-Salem, N.C. singer/guitarist Peter May's latest release, Blues and Gospel.
Reviving the Music of 1930s Appalachia
In the late 1930s, as those living on the land that became the Great Smoky Mountains National Park were leaving (some voluntarily, some forcibly) their homesteads, farms, mines and logging camps, folklorist Joseph Hall collected field recordings of their dialectical speech and music. Selections from those aluminum platters and acetate
Frazey Ford on Neil Young, D'Angelo, and More
Frazey Ford sees her two solo albums after departing from the Be Good Tanyas as very different works. The singer-songwriter, who had been one-third of the Vancouver, BC-based folk, country, and blues group, released her first solo album, Obadiah, in 2010 and followed with Indian Ocean four
Forty Years of Country Music and "Related Forms"
I personally can credit KFAT radio for much of my musical education back in the 1970s. The station not only played great music, they had a sense of humor, which is not heard on music radio much these days.
Sully Roddy was one of the funnier KFAT DJs, and I&
Mental Health Comes Into the Light With Music From This Folk Collection
I found this effort special to listen to and because of its optimistic and inspiring approach – something quite different from the regular batch of creativeness I often receive. I also took an interest because in my spare time I have worked for years with special needs students. Here, this Canadian