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Ralph Rinzler Collections , Smithsonian Institute
Hoot for peace! folk concert flier
#folk#american folk revival#folk revival#folk music#flier#photos#american folk#pete seeger#the greenbriar boys#doc Watson#ed mccurdy#molly scott#60s#1960s#60s folk#scrapbook
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To FruitViking For Saddled in Scarlet
There once was a pair from the Wild Old West A sleuth and the doc that he loved the best Their thrilling adventures Have horses and six-shooters, And stand head and shoulders above all the rest.
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A man arrives on the noon train For quiet and peace he'll remain. Adventure soon beckons John Who didn't reckon on Sherlock Holmes, who's clearly insane.
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"Saddled in Scarlet" kicks off the fun. Tracking a killer down on the run. An acquaintance was made With one Sheriff Lestrade And a beautiful friendship's begun!
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Read the absolutely fabulous "Saddled in Scarlet" here!!
Thank you @fruitviking!
PLEASE let me know if you want off the list!! - for either just the reruns or everything.
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Modern americans can make yearnful music all we want but no one is doin it like an Appalachian or new englander balladeer recorded in the early revival and that's just a fact of life #sorry
#jean ritchie#elizabeth cotten#paul clayton#frank proffitt#cisco houston#logan English#fleming brown#doc watson#ET CETERA!!!!!!#folklore#folkloristics#folk revival#american folk music#american folklore#appalachia#new england
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Crawdad Song
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Song Review: Tony Trischkaâs Earl Jam - âBrownâs Ferry Bluesâ (Live)
Seeming to choose soloists on the spot and frequently delighting in the respective results, Tony Trischkaâs Earl Jam turned âBrownâs Ferry Bluesâ into a quartet jamboree.
With room for fiddle, banjo, acoustic guitar and double bass solos baked in, the musicians were loose enough for ad libbed vocals about the Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival at which they were playing and tight enough to have earned that spot.
Most of all, the players were having obvious fun. And that transfers easily to the resulting video.
Grade card: Tony Trischkaâs Earl Jam - âBrownâs Ferry Bluesâ (Live) - A
9/27/24
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And now she's gone And I don't' worry Lord, I'm sitting On top of the world...
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Arthel Lane "Doc" Watson (1923-2012)
Flatpicking and fingerpicking legend
#doc watson#acoustic guitar#musical legends#flatpicking#fingerpicking#country music#merle watson#Youtube
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I'm an invalid and I was already productive today (went to the gynecologist and was informed that all my lady parts are in flawless condition) so now I'm doing absolutely nothing except lying on the sofa listening to vintage bluegrass all evening
#cosmo gyres#personal#a day in the life#bluegrass#all the good shit#bill monroe#flatt & scruggs#vassar clements#the stanley brothers#the seldom scene#the country gentlemen#ricky skaggs#doc watson#etc#about music
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Doc Watson Ö Little Darlin' Pal of Mine (2018)
I'm just a poor boy broken-hearted Listening to the wind that sighs
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273: The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band // Will the Circle Be Unbroken
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Will the Circle Be Unbroken The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band 1972, United Artists
Who can endure a sentimentalist music critic? Still, this morning anyway, my heartâs fit to weep over a one-hundred-and-ten minutes of exultant roots music and a beautiful idea executed to perfection. The notion behind Will the Circle Be Unbroken was to use the Dirt Band, a crew of talented longhairs from California, as a bridge between the trendy country rock of the day and the genreâs pantheon of avuncularly voiced pioneers. (And I guess in Maybelle Carterâs case âaunticularly voiced.â) Many of these sorts of intergenerational tribute projects give me queasy tasting notes of hapless arts council funding or the rap number from Walk Hard, but somehow this triple LP from the heart of rockâs imperial phase manages to be both reverent of traditional country and bluegrass history and present these genres as living organisms.
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The Dirt Band are joined by a Field of Dreams cast of legends, plus an adjunct wing of ace players like fiddle genius Vassar Clements, and while the Dirties sneak in one original the focus is squarely on the standards. None of these takes supplant the originals, but the recording fidelity, superlative playing, and warm communal energy make for lovely alternatives. Merle Travisâs âDark as a Dungeon,â one of the greatest folk and country songs of the century, has never sounded more lovely or doomed; Doc Watson gives Jimmie Driftwoodâs âTennessee Studâ a broad-shouldered boisterousness; Earl Scruggs and the Dirt Bandâs John McEuen present the classic fiddle reel âSoldierâs Joyâ as an infectious banjo duel.Â
Many of the songs include snatches of studio chatter between the band and their guests: Mother Maybelle sounds like the sweetest old thing imaginable; Roy Acuff comes off like as much of a pompous Haven Hamilton-type as Iâd always heard he was; Jimmy Martin gives elderly prospector cricket. The tapes are even rolling for the first meeting of guitar legends Travis and Watson, who have an adorably awkward little chat before declaring themselves âbuddies.â These peeks into the process are part of Circleâs artifice, but it feels like an honest attempt to capture the historic nature of the summit. The album rounds off with nods to the deep past in the form of a number of Carter family cuts, an homage to bluegrass father âUncleâ Dave Macon, and a group singalong of the spiritual âWill the Circle Be Unbroken?â But then, right there at the end, we get 17-year-old Randy Scruggs performing a solo instrumental take on Joni Mitchellâs 1968 âBoth Sides, Now.â The symbolism of the teenaged son of Earl Scruggs playing such a recent (and aptly-named) tune is clear, quietly closing the circle between past and present, a pact sealed.
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- folk adjacent songs
all the best debts - fever dolls
change and change and change and change - the airborne toxic event
cherry - morningsiders
civil war - the arcadian wild
cocaine and abel - the airborne toxic event
deep river blues - doc watson
ends of the earth - lord huron
fare the well (dinkâs song) - oscar isaac
flowers - james spaite
from dusk to dawn - fever dolls
golden dandelions - barns courntey
graveclothes - birdtalker
hang me, oh hang me - oscar isaac
hey, runner! - the arcadian wild
i iv v - don mccloskey
kickinâ da leaves - judah & the lion
knockinâ - carolina chocolate drops
moonshine - hippo campus
not dead yet - lord huron
oh, sleeper - the arcadian wild
poor isaac - the airborne toxic event
starcrossed losers - the fratellis
stella - cereus bright
subterranean homesick blues - the lumineers
tell it like it is - the arcadian wild
there is a time - the dillards
wander. wonder. - the arcadian wild
#folk#playlist#music#oscar isaac#fever dolls#the airborne toxic event#morningsiders#the arcadian wild#doc watson#lord huron#james spaite#barns courtney#birdtalker#don mccloskey#judah & the lion#hippo campus#the fratellis#cereus bright#the lumineers#the dillards#spotify
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Folk concert, 1964
#phil ochs#doc watson#lightnin hopkins#Mississippi john hurt#dave van ronk#photos#60s#60s music#folk#blues#folk music#american folk revival#american folk#folk revival#60s folk#flier
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Autumnal trad(ish) folk
#spotify playlist#folk music#Joan Shelley#David francey#lal waterson#Jean Ritchie#doc watson#Neil morris#Tim eriksen#Alfred g. karnes#8tracks#Spotify
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Cripple Creek DOC WATSON and ARNOLD WATSON
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Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Day No. 2, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, Sept. 30, 2023
Leyla McCalla controls the weather.
An overcast day in San Franciscoâs Golden Gate Park suddenly turned sun-soaked when the former Carolina Chocolate Drop sang: My face to the sun as she performed Our Native Daughtersâ âI Knew I Could Flyâ during her Sept. 30 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass set on the Towers of Gold Stage.
âThatâs awesome,â she said mid-verse as the Earthâs star emerged from the afternoon clouds.
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Following the electric and steel guitar instrumentals of Hermanos GutiĂ©rrez on the adjacent Swan stage and playing cello, banjo and electric guitar, backed with rhythm section and electric guitar, McCalla covered Kendrick Lamarâs âCrownâ and offered a gumbo of New Orleanian, Haitian and American music delivered in English and Haitian Creole while showcasing her the Capitalist Blues and Breaking the Thermometer LPs.
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The Sound Bitesesâ day had begun in the pre-noon fog with the down-in-the-holler, old-time string music of Dry Branch Fire Squad playing the songs of Gillian Welch, Doc Watson and Bill Monroe on the Banjo stage. Later, it was gospel from the McCrary Sisters, who sung Stevie Wonderâs âHigher Ground,â âAmazing Graceâ and other numbers backed by a full band during short, five- to 15-minute sets on the Rooster stage, where Brennan Leigh offered a lunchtime menu of traditional country music.
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It was also on the Rooster that Emmylou Harris previewed her Sunday appearance by guesting with Shawn Camp and Verlon Thompson and closing their Doc Watson tribute set with Guy Clarkâs âOld Friends.â
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Shortly afterward, Bettye LaVette sauntered onstage to deliver her grinding version of Bob Dylanâs âThings Have Changed.â From here, it was an impassioned reading of songs from the Randall Bramblett-written LaVette! album as the singer prowled the stage and proved her 77 years have cost her nothing in vocal prowess and stage presence.
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âIf I could write, this is what I would have said,â LaVette said in introducing the new songs, which worked better on stage than on wax.
Rickie Lee Jones attracted a ginormous crowd to Banjo - âI havenât seen so many people in front of me for so long,â she said, soaking it in - and their enthusiasm rubbed off. Jones, whose band included Vilray on guitar and vocals, plus accordion and bass, was animated as she danced around the stage and crooned like a lounge singer when she wasnât playing guitar, banjo or piano.
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Opening with a radically rearranged âDannyâs All-Star Jointâ more suited for the streets of New Orleans than the fields of Golden Gate, Jones went on to perform âI Wonât Grow Upâ - for the first time, she said - âLast Chance Texaco,â âWe Belong Togetherâ and a sinewy rendition of Steely Danâs âShow Biz Kidsâ that found Jones lifting her orange sweater to sing of the Rickie Lee T-shirt beneath.
Give RLJ the MVP for turning in HSB No. 2âs No. 1 gig.
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Faced with the quintessential festivalgoersâ dilemma, Mr. and Mrs. Sound Bites split the last hour between Steve Earleâs uncharacteristically sleepy solo-acoustic set on the Banjo and Irma Thomasâ barnburner R&B/soul revival at the Rooster.
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At 82, Thomas played the dayâs most rambunctious set, ripping into âTime is on My Sideâ and getting the audience bouncing and waving their handkerchiefs on her mashup of âI Done Got Over Itâ -> âIko Ikoâ -> âHey Pocky Wayâ -> âI Done Got Over It.â That one might be ringing through Golden Gateâs trees along with the birdsong for some time to come.
Read Sound Bitesâ coverage of HSB Day One here.
10/1/23
#hardly strictly bluegrass#2023 concerts#leyla mccalla#carolina chocolate drops#hermanos gutiérrez#dry branch fire squad#gillian welch#doc watson#bill monroe#the mccrary sisters#brennan leigh#emmylou harris#shawn camp#verlon thompson#bettye lavette#bob dylan#randall bramblett#rickie lee jones#steely dan#steve earle#irma thomas#kendrick lamar#stevie wonder
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