Woody Guthrie's
A look at parodies (or spoofs), answer songs, and the short-lived fad of death tunes Home » Music » 60s Music » 1960s Music: Answer Songs, Parodies, and Death Tunes Most of these were rather forgettable, but there were a few gems in the [... more]
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Pastures of Plenty
 well worth a long and thoughtful listen: Some may argue that these 26 songs aren't Woody Guthrie's "best" songs, but they certainly capture the breadth of the man's musical vision. They will also remind listeners of the debt Bob Dylan owed to [... more]
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Fishermans Blues
From Amazon.co.uk: When The Waterboys' Irish violinist Steve Wickham suggested to Mike Scott that Spiddal was a great place to get away from it all, no-one could have guessed how Scott would take his advice to heart. Within less than a year The Waterboys [... more]
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American Roots - 4 CD Set
some of the history of American folk music, anyway: Odd that something with a title and subtitle so grandiose as this collection's has no songs by African-American artists on it. After all, black Americans have played a huge role, from spirituals to [... more]
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& Harold Budd - After The Night Falls
From Amazon.com: It's been more than 20 years since pianist Harold Budd's first full collaboration with guitarist Robin Guthrie's former group, the Cocteau Twins, on The Moon and the Melodies. Primed by their atmospheric collaboration on the score to [... more]
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Sayin' Hello to the Folks
musical genius is another way....: of looking at the power of Jules Shears talent. Far too long between outings, "Sayin Hello" brings the joy back to listening to music without relying on the tired playlists of anyone's favorite radio station. [... more]
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Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and ...
From Amazon.com: Paul Erdös was an amazing and prolific mathematician whose life as a world-wandering numerical nomad was legendary. He published almost 1500 scholarly papers before his death in 1996, and he probably thought more about math problems [... more]
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Orpheus and Greek Religion: A Study of the Orphic Movement
an outdated "classic": As Alderink acknowledges in the Forward, a whole lot of new evidence and new scholarship has seen the light of day since the book's publication in *1935*. (The present edition is a reprint of the second (1952) edition of [... more]
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The Greek Philosophers: From Thales to Aristotle
Done with Clarity and Simplicity: I've occasionally read up on the ancient Greek philosophers, and it's not an easy subject. This work, though I would have liked to see another twenty pages devoted to each of Plato and Aristotle, concisely explains the [... more]
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Folkways: A Tribute To Woody G
From Amazon.com: One of the more creative, successful tribute albums, A Vision Shared was originally released to coincide with a PBS program that premiered in 1988. Packing some serious heavyweights onto one CD, the record features covers of Guthrie and [... more]
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Tutira
A classic of environmental history: This book, first published in 1921 in Britain and New Zealand, and now reissued in the United States with a generous and enthusiastic introduction by William Cronon, is certainly one of the strangest and at first sight [... more]
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Woody Guthrie's Happy Joyous Hanukkah
From Amazon.com: This second interpretation of Woody Guthrie's Jewish-themed lyrics by the Klezmatics--America's premiere Yiddish band--revolves around Hanukkah, and by the title, it's not surprising that most of the offerings boast a lively tone. [... more]
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