Cliff Eberhardt may have come up on the same '80s East Coast singer/songwriter scene as
Shawn Colvin, Lucy Kaplansky, John Gorka, et al., but even from the beginning he had rock & roll -- and even pop -- aspirations. His ...
Canadian country singer/songwriter Kim Beggs may hail from north of the U.S.-Canada border, but she
maintains a familiar rural, working-class persona on her third album, Blue Bones. In her breathy, childlike voice, she recounts tales of lost souls, frequently drenched ...
With mid-'60s gems like Violets of Dawn, Thirsty Boots, and Close the Door Lightly, Eric
Andersen became the archetypal, literate romantic before the likes of James Taylor and Jackson Browne had even cut their first records, but at the same ...
Sam Graham once referred to Fahey as the curmudgeon of the acoustic guitar, while producer
Samuel Charters noted that Fahey was the only artist I ever worked with whose sales went down after he made public appearances. This tumultuous spirit, ...
Pete Seeger turns up on this edition, as do such other folk veterans as Oscar
Brand, Sammy Walker, and Jim Glover (of Jim And Jean). Among the new generation, Shawn Colvin contributes I Don't Know Why, and Rod MacDonald sings ...
Subtitled: Women in Song. This exceptional album leads off with Nanci Griffith and also includes
Shawn Colvin and Christine Lavin. Among the less well known names, the duo Palmer And Bragg turn in the impressive Bayonne and Megan McDonough contributes ...
The Kronos Quartet have famously refused to allow themselves to be hemmed in by the
narrower parameters of the traditional classical repertoire, devoting themselves to contemporary classical works, experimental pieces, and other compositions outside the usual confines of art music. ...
From the lively opening bars of Joan Baez and Jackson Browne’s upbeat version of Guantanamera
to the closing lines of Pete Seeger leading us in Well May the World Go, this CD, The Songs of Pete Seeger, Volume Two in ...
