Given the utter depression of the news in last two days, I thought a music thread would make people feel better. So here are the albums I listened to today: 1. Miles Davis Quintet, Live in Europe 1967, Disc 2 2. Patti Smith, Horses 3....
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I had no idea that Tex Logan, noted fiddler for Bill Monroe, was also an engineer who worked for AT&T Bell Laboratories in New Jersey. Dead at 87.
On the death of Guy Carawan, I've been poking around various folk music sites and the like today and I thought this video of Pete Seeger explaining the development of.
Guy Carawan, the folk singer who taught the civil rights movement "We Shall Overcome" has died at the age of 87. Carawan is a super interesting guy, someone who came out of California at the very beginning of the folk movement and ended up at...
Dead at 76.
Last night, I was lucky enough to see the legendary Richard Thompson at the Met in America's cultural capital of Pawtucket, Rhode Island. I've listened to RT for a solid.
This is a pretty intense story about how Phil Ochs was caught up in the repression of artists and leftists in Latin America in the early 1970s and how closely he came to being disappeared in Bolivia like many other leftists of the time.
Dead at the age of 74.
Have a peaceful and quiet evening with Akira Sakata.
In the aftermath of the Homestead Strike of 1892, the New York songwriter William W. Delaney composed a song by the name of "Father Was Killed by the Pinkerton Men." It became fairly popular across the nation that year. Here are the lyrics. 'Twas in...
On this Friday evening it's worth remembering how amazing Doc Watson was.
The great documentarian has died.