“Have you talked to Jesse Winchester? You can’t talk about the best songwriters and not include him.” ~ Bob Dylan Way back in the early 70s my then girlfriend told me I had to listen to this new singer-songwriter that she loved Jesse Winchester. She particularly loved the song “Yankee Lady”. I listened she was [...]
So yesterday when I played the video for Joe Crookston’s “Good Luck John”, I brought to mind one of my favorite songs Tom Rush performs “Making the Best of a Bad Situation”. Now when I thought of this song, I thought of Tom’s album Trolling for Owls, which is an album of humorous songs. Now [...]
I first really listened to Joe Crookston back in 2010 when his album Able, Baker, Charlie, and Dog was released. Up until that time, I knew the name and not the music. Once I heard the music though, I loved the talent, great songwriting, coupled with great vocals and music. Shortly after another of Joe’s [...]
So last night as I worked burning, washing and sieving asphalt and its component parts, I listened to two fine folk albums. The first was the latest release from Cal Scott Carved Wood Box and the second was Walk Along John from Canadian mandolin virtuoso John Reischman. Currently, Cal Scott’s album is number 29 on [...]
So this morning as I was reviewing the list of birthdays I saw that Mimi Farina, Joan Baez’s sister and one half of Richard & Mimi Farina was born in 1945. As I continued looking I saw that Richard Farina died in 1966 on this date. What I didn’t remember, or know, were the details [...]
I came home from running an errand tonight I was all set to write a post about Left Arm Tan, whose music had just been the soundtrack for my trip. Overall, I was in a semi-bad mood, which my wife made just a little worse, when she old me that Richie Havens had passed away. [...]
On this date in 1977 English singer Sandy Denny died. I remember that she died from a brain problems but I didn’t remember or know what the problems resulted from! Her is information from her biography at Wikipedia: Alexandra Elene Maclean “Sandy” Denny (6 January 1947 – 21 April 1978) was an English singer and [...]
My musical day today started with a mix of folk music from the iPod, first there was a song from Jesse Winchester’s Gentleman of Leisure album and then a Mark Erelli song, a track from Les Sampou, I haven’t heard her voice in a while! As my thoughts rambled through the list of musicians whose music [...]
So today is James Taylor‘s 65th birthday! Once again that gap between the artist and me is narrower than I believed it to be way back when James began his career. I don’t remember if his breaktrhough album Fire and Rain was the first album of James’ that I bought or if I bought his [...]
Many Folk and Americana singer-songwriters make the trek from the northeast to Austin Texas, the Americana music Mecca, to establish their music career. Case in point, former resident of Maine, Slaid Cleaves. Well, at least one current Texas native has made the reverse trip, Jarrod Dickenson as who now calls New York City home. This week [...]
