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Denver Silent Film Festival has three days of rarely-seen silent gems, world-famous musical accompaniment and awards for longtime collaborators Rodney Sauer and Hank Troy.
In the folk music boom in New York in the 1960s, the music of guitarist Mississippi John Hurt was a huge influence on players like Happy Traum, John Sebastian, and others.
From the July 2018 issue of Acoustic Guitar | BY STEVE JAMES In the close, dimly lit quarters of the subterranean Gaslight Cafe, on MacDougal Street in New York’s Greenwich Village, a lot of what is now music history and legend happened as the basket was passed and the upstairs neighbors called in noise complaints. Besides hosting germinal performances by…
“Oh, Lord, I've got some singing to do,” Joe Hickerson croons comfortably, without instrumentation, from his kitchen table. The fridge behind him is covered with photos and magnets, and he peers into his computer’s video camera toward an online audience of about seventy people attending a recent Friday night Old-Fashioned Hootenanny hosted by Swallow Hill Music over Zoom. He pauses to explain how he learned "Oh, Lord, I've Got Some Singing to Do" in 1957, during his days at Oberlin College. He and the others gathering online for Swallow Hill's hootenannies are carrying on a traditio...