I’ve seen a quote attributed to the great Hank Williams: âA song ain’t nothin’ in the world but a story just wrote with music to it.â Â In Norse legend, the Three Norns sit at the foot of Yggdrasil, the tree of the world, and spin the threads of fate in the intertwined story of our […]
The L&N Don’t Stop Here Any More
A point of context for the subtitle in my commentary yesterday on the Diary of Pvt. Orrin Brown. Jean Ritchie was born into a family of folk balladeers in the Cumberland Mountains of eastern Kentucky.  Song catchers like Alan Lomax sought out her family in the early 20th century to document the long journey of common […]
JohnSmith in Windom
[v=VWrpFP1WBeY] I was going to see folk singer JohnSmith play the Carson Meeting House at Delft tonight, just north of Windom, in the Prairie Wind Folk & Bluegrass series.  After slogging home from my boy’s basketball tourney Saturday afternoon in 1/4-mile or less visibility, I let the blowing snow win and stayed safe at home. The […]