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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 year's best because they represent folk music's 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 importance and not very bright."

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