Folk singer bringing old-time tunes to old Longview
Mike Tod to play the Twin Cities Saloon on April 29 with a set list spanning centuries.
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Mike Tod to play the Twin Cities Saloon on April 29 with a set list spanning centuries.
While Old Salt claims Belgium as their home base, they're an international outfit in every sense with members from the US, Belgium, France, and Chile
Our Inside Appalachia team recently won several awards for our reporting. This week, we’re listening back to some of these stories, including one about the John Denver classic, “Take Me Home Country Roads,” which was first recorded 50 years ago in 1971. And we’ll learn how indie pro-wrestling in Southern West Virginia was able to keep going through the pandemic — with drive-in shows. We’ll also hear about two Welsh storytellers and their fascination with Appalachia.
In this time of ongoing lockdowns, social distancing and temporal disorientation, vocalist-composer Rhiannon Giddens and her partner both on and off the stage, multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi, offered a livestreamed performance presented by Music Worcester on Saturday afternoon from their Ireland home just south of Dublin. Though Giddens hails from the United States and Turrisi from Italy, when they create music together, those geographical and cultural touchpoints are mere placeholders for a quest that takes them deep underground, where the sediment all looks the same. Thus, the lab...
Article Contributed by American Stand… | Published on Wednesday, January 27, 2021 Taco Tapes comes to you as it came to us -- uninhibited, present in the now. Common music industry practice can bog an album down for years in a mire of edits, overdubs, recording sessions. Some of these songs are decades old, but they were recorded less than a month ago. A team of individuals at the height of their powers arranged, sang, played, mixed and mastered these in a stream of consciousness style, a single take shot. You are hearing fresh-folk, spirited covers, and tuned up & turned on tradi...