Tag Archives: Roots
Americana Music Awards Reward Americana Music Fans
If the world were just, the Americana Music Awards would be the Country Music Awards. Somewhere along the way, pop music punked country music and Nashville wandered down the path of easy money and middling music. Blah, blah, blah, you’ve … Continue reading
JC’s Americana Top Tunes Played in 2014
“One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.” -A.A. Milne There is a great joy in discovery. New books, new music, new places speak to your soul. Some folks find their joy in … Continue reading
The Cantrells Come to the Library: An Americana Myth of Home
I wandered again through my home in the mountain Where in youth’s early dawn I was happy and free. I look for my friends, but I never could find ’em. I found they were all rank strangers to me. -“Rank … Continue reading
No Depression’s Crowdsourced Top 2011
[v=P37xPiRz1sg] My Top Tunes of 2011 is still sorting itself out (it is still 2011 through the end of next week). [Edit: JC’s Top Tunes of 2011] No Depression‘s community ning, however, is amazingly well organized for a self-organizing successor … Continue reading
Half-way Home: Audrey (and Faith and me) at Forty
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CjCuY1b_-U] I’m a long-time fan of performing songwriter Audrey Auld and her blend of Australia and Appalachia, Okie and Outback. When Audrey’s around, you know Bob Wills is still the king. I’m a bigger fan of Audrey Auld making fun of … Continue reading
Live from Mountain Stage
[v=khsmZbaj0xQ] I have enjoyed the Mountain Stage radio show for a long time, but it’s not broadcast on Minnesota Public Radio. The Mountain Stage Podcast has come to the rescue, featuring an expanded version (sometimes close to 3 hours a … Continue reading
Telluride Bluegrass Lineup
or JC’s snarky quips about people who practiced their instruments while he read books. Continue reading
Telluride, Bluegrass and the Cross of Gold
Do better. Go Higher. Continue reading
A Ghost Town Again
Minnesota Historical Society cutting back. Continue reading
Living too close to town
[v=_tmcUsSbmuo] Edward Abbey died 20 years ago today. The American Spectator has a nice essay that sums up my love-hate admiration for the Conservative Anarchist of the Desert Southwest: Cactus Ed was a prickly sort; a conservative anarchist, if you … Continue reading
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