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They made it their mission to visit each location in the song as a way to bring the song to life and to stay occupied during the pandemic.

From the January/February 2020 issue of Acoustic Guitar | BY PATRICK GRANT New Orleans-born pianist Ferdinand Joseph LaMenthe, better known as Jelly Roll Morton, was an early ragtime pianist who was present at the birth of jazz and even boasted of having invented it. Whatever the merits of that claim, Morton certainly played a significant role in the evolution of ragtime…

These 15 folk albums are the years best because they represent folk musics expanding roots while best serving a unifying, underlying hope.

Then in 1968, I saw "Don't Look Back" (1967), D.A. Pennebaker's documentary about Dylan's 1965 tour of Great Britain. In my review, I called the movie "a fascinating exercise in self-revelation," and added: "The portrait that emerges is not a pretty one." Dylan is seen not as a "lone, ethical figure standing up against the phonies," I wrote, but is "immature, petty, vindictive, lacking a sense of humor, overly impressed with his own import...

This year's Record Store Day Black Friday 2021 will feature releases from Fleetwood Mac, Lana Del Rey, Evanescence and Kali Uchis.

Folk artist Tom Russell brings his family saga to Tucson. By Gregory McNamee TRACING FAMILY HISTORY, genealogists will tell you, is an inexact science. Its not so much for lack of data: the world is afloat, after all, in birth and death certificates, deeds, snapshots, home movies. The challenge in uncovering ones roots is more often to separate fact from folklore, to cut through family politics, whitewashing (see Robert Altmans new film Cookies Fortune for a case in point) and wishful thinking ...

Tom Russell   Pilgrim Land Bukowski #2 "On the Hustle" Bukowski #3 America the Beautiful Tom Russells Hotwalker CD is a portrait of a segment of American culture in a time gone by. Through original songs, narration, and the actual voices of literary and historical figures, Tom constructs a recollection of the...   more &raquo outsider voices of American popular culture, literature and art of the 1960s. It is Tom Russells second foray into photographing a piece of Americas past, the first bei...

An Exegesis by Stu Levitan In late January and early February, 1964, when the number one song in America was “I Want To Hold Your Hand,” here’s what Bob Dylan was writing: Through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail The sky cracked its poems in naked wonder That the clinging of the church bells blew far into the breeze Leaving only bells of lightning and its thunder Striking for the gentle, striking for the kind Striking for the guardians and protectors of the mind For the p...

Rolling Stone Patrick Sky, Folk Singer and Bob Dylan Contemporary, Dead at 80 Member of the Sixties Greenwich Village folk scene, Sky released acclaimed satirical LP Songs That Made America Famous in 1973 By Timothy Duffy Patrick Sky, a member of the Sixties Greenwich Village folk scene that launched Bob Dylan, Dave Van Ronk, and many others, died on May 27th in Asheville, North Carolina. Sky had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2017, but according to his wife, fol...