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Val Mindel and Debra Clifford have teamed up to create the Traveling Old Time Music School. More information here: http://oldtimemusicschool.com/
Sounds exciting - as long as it’s not in the vein of that 37 minute jam referenced at the bottom of the post.
Neil Young and Crazy Horse - New Album Arrives In June
Neil Young and Crazy Horse will release their first album since 2003 on June 5, according to Rolling Stone. Americana will feature 11 tracks primarily made up of old time US folk songs as well as covers of Led Zeppelin’s take on Gallows Pole and (we presume) Sex Pistols’ God Save The Queen. Speaking at Slamdance Film Festival earlier this year, Young revealed that “they’re songs we all know from kindergarden, but Crazy Horse has rearranged them, and they now belong to us.”
The Americana press release states:
“What ties these songs together is the fact that while they may represent an America that may no longer exist. The emotions and scenarios behind these songs still resonate with what’s going on in the country today with equal, if not greater impact nearly 200 years later. The lyrics reflect the same concerns and are still remarkably meaningful to a society going through economic and cultural upheaval, especially during an election year. They are just as poignant and powerful today as the day they were written.” The album was recorded at Audio Casa Blanca and was produced by Neil Young and John Hanlon and assisted by Mark Humphreys.
Here’s the full album track list:
Oh Susannah
Clementine
Tom Dooley
Gallows Pole
Get A Job
Travel On
High Flyin’ Bird
She’ll Be Comin ’Round The Mountain
This Land Is Your Land
Wayfarin’ Stranger
God Save The QueenThis is the first of two new Neil Young and Crazy Horse releases expected to emerge over the course of the next year. A 37-minute electric jam was posted on Young’s official site last month, hinting at another album made up of original material. You can hear it here.
PBS Arts from the Blue Ridge Mountains: Give Me the Banjo
Narrated by Steve Martin, “Give Me the Banjo” is a musical odyssey through 300 years of American history and culture by way of the banjo. Guided by modern banjo masters such as Earl Scruggs, Pete Seeger, Bela Fleck, Taj Mahal, Mike Seeger, and Abigail Washburn, “Give Me The Banjo” explores American music from minstrelsy, ragtime and early jazz to blues, folk, and bluegrass. You’ll also see appearances from Blind Boy Jerron Paxton, Noam Pikelny, Dom Flemons, Rhiannon Giddens, and many other young musicians who are keeping great roots music alive.
Hard Times Come Again No More at FOB Wilson, Afghanistan April 2010.
Eric Burke on banjo, Kyle Shaw on viola, and myself on guitar….For the fallen…Rest In Peace Wittman, Durkin, Reiners and Pagan. All lost to dismounted Improvised Explosive Devices just a few short months earlier.
A fantastic song- perhaps the first time it was performed on Afghan soil. Be safe gents, I hope you are long since home.
(via fuckyeahbluegrass)
Day One of the Brooklyn Folk Festival Tonight at Jalopy
Here’s the lineup for tonight:
Friday, June 10th
At The Jalopy Theatre
6:00 PM Winston Fleary and the Big Drum Nation Dance Company
7:00 PM Jay Gandhi
8:00 PM Major Contay & The Canebreak Rattlers
8:45 PM Uncle Monk
9:30 PM Peter Stampfel & The Ether Frolic Mob
10:15 PM Feral Foster
11:00 PM Jake Sanders Sextet
12:00 PM Midnight Mystery Film Screening
See what people have been saying about the Brooklyn Folk Festival:
Eli Smith: Is folk music back? Sure is, especially at the Jalopy Theatre, where Carroll Gardens jams with Red Hook — and where this master of many stringed instruments performs and teaches. To showcase a new crop of folkies, Smith also created the Brooklyn Folk Festival, coming June 10-12 at Jalopy and the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition. From Brooklyn Independent Television’s Caught In The Act, episode 38. Original air date: 5/25/2011.
University of Kentucky Symposium on Affrilachia: Black Banjo Gathering - Dom Flemons playing “Po Black Sheep”
Frank Fairfield has a new album called Out On The Open West available May 31. (via thecountryf&*#er)
RIP Hazel Dickens
Hazel Dickens, West Virginia-born bluegrass singer who was an authentic voice of America’s working class, has died in Washington at 75.
The Washington Post: Ms. Dickens grew up in dire poverty in West Virginia’s coal country and developed a raw, keening style of singing that was filled with the pain of her hardscrabble youth.
West Virginia Public Broadcasting: Her unmistakable voice was synonymous with the mountains of West Virginia and the hard working spirit that she carried with her throughout her life. Her influence cannot be overstated, having been recognized by the likes of Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss and countless others, while her topical material, from “Black Lung” to “Working Girl Blues,” remains relevant.
NPR: She grew up poor in West Virginia’s coal country, listening to the Grand Ole Opry broadcasts and the unaccompanied singing in church. She brought those sounds with her to Baltimore, where she moved to work in a factory when she was still a teenager.
WV Gazette Coal Tattoo Blog: United Mine Workers President Cecil Roberts issued this statement a little while ago:
The hearts and prayers of UMWA members and our families are with the family of our great friend, Hazel Dickens.
Hazel was a real inspiration to coal miners everywhere. She was always supportive of better jobs, better lives and a better future for coal miners and our communities, and didn’t mind saying so. She was a strong, clear voice when we needed one, and was never at a loss for words when it came to describing the hard lives miners and their families endured.
Hazel supported the UMWA throughout her career. When we were on strike, she raised money to feed our families. When we were organizing, she sent messages of support and encouragement. When we fought to eliminate black lung disease, she stood with us.
Hazel was a child of the coalfields, yet she was a sister to us all. We will miss her terribly.
Frank Fairfield’s Highway Man on Living and Breathing. Frank doesn’t have any New York dates upcoming, but hopefully he’ll visit again after his tour of Europe this summer.
Tonight at Jalopy- the perfect solution to the eternal question, “how should we celebrate St Patty’s Day?”
Well, who knew? It seems those fresh faced folks from the Whistling Wolves believe in having good old-fashioned dirty fun. That’s why they’ve partnered up to bring the top musicians on New York’s folk/country/oldtime/bluegrass/blues scene together for a series of concerts like no other.
The Debauchery Series will publicly showcase music that these days is often kept private: sexy, rowdy, lewd, ugly, illegal, politically incorrect, did-he-just-say-what-I-think-he-said traditional music from the heart of the America. The Whistling Wolves host three inappropriately-themed evenings that will give you an unhealthy dose of sex, drugs, and fighting.
The show starts tonight, Thursday, March 17 at 9 pm.
