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Saturday, April 7, 2012

Roots Music News--4.6.12

 
Banjo player connects bluegrass and American roots music
STLtoday.com
What they all have in common is an appreciation for roots music. "Those are people that I relate to really well, and I'd like to think that that's my community," says Washburn, who is increasingly being recognized as an artist with a modern approach to ...
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What's On: Tyneside roots music scene this week
ChronicleLive
The concert will take the audience on a world tour of orchestral music inspired by folk, and award-winning folk band Bellowhead will join the NYO on stage to perform some vibrant new interpretations of traditional British folk tunes.
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Finding And Curating The Roots Of Soul Music
NPR
Missionary Mamie Sample recorded "May Be My Last Time Singing" in New Orleans in 1972; it's an old Staples Singers song that's clearly fallen into the folk tradition — not to mention The Rolling Stones' repertoire. In fact, pop music, the blues and ...
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Musical history of the blues found in juke joints
CBS News
It's roots go all the way back to Emancipation. In the old South, poverty made life more extreme. So folks found barns, shacks, anywhere - to play, sing and dance their sorrows away. Over time, these places became known as juke joints.
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Live review at Johnny Brenda's celebrates traditional gospel music
Philadelphia Inquirer
April has hosted the brunch since Easter Sunday 2010; he's also hosted "Roots of Rhythm & Blues" and "The Gospel Train" for 20 years on Hatboro's WRDV-FM. To celebrate that anniversary, he'll preach musical truth Saturday with a live gospel show at the ...
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Brooklyn's Yarn spins roots-rock sound at Asheville's Grey Eagle
Asheville Citizen-Times
Yarn plays Saturday night at The Grey Eagle Music Hall, opening for Sanctum Sully. / Special to the Citizen-Times Don't go late to Sanctum Sully's Saturday night show at The Grey Eagle. Opening are Brooklyn-based roots rockers Yarn with a sound that is ...
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Albert King Remaster Coming Next Month
antiMUSIC.com
Enhanced by 24-bit remastering by Joe Tarantino, four previously unreleased bonus tracks, and newly written liner notes by music journalist and roots music historian Bill Dahl, the reissue not only spotlights one of the most entertaining and ...
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'Treme's' My Darlin' New Orleans 2012 benefit totals $90000 (and counting)
NOLA.com
The local benefiting organizations are Sweet Home New Orleans, The Roots of Music and The New Orleans Musicians' Clinic and Assistance Foundation. Enlarge Steven Forster, Times-Picayune STAFF PHOTO BY STEVEN FORSTER / THE TIMES-PICAYUNE HBO and ...
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"Out with the Crow"The Haunted Windchimes
Pueblo Chieftain
The local band making national waves has returned to the scene with a new, self-recorded album of neo-Americana and roots music. "Out with the Crow" is the latest addition to The Haunted Windchimes' rapidly blooming reputation as the new torchbearers ...
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A recent article on collector/librarian/archivist Jim Linderman encourages a closer look at books in ICP's stacks that reflect the history of American roots music , ...
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