In 1849, Thomas William Maloy married Anna Kenny, somewhere in County Roscommon, Ireland. They soon departed Eire’s green shores for a better life in America, settling on a small farm in Upstate New York. The Maloys—along with untold other Irish ancestors known and unknown—left all they knew and loved for the great unknown. Thomas & Anna were […]
Halden Wofford & the Hi-Beams at Durango Arts Center
My old Front Range friends from Halden Wofford & the Hi-Beams came over the mountain to play a couple shows at Durango and Cortez, Colorado, and then down to Taos, New Mexico this weekend. The good fellows at KSUT Four Corners Public Radio gave ’em a mid-afternoon acoustic promote, but for me work intruded so I […]
Diary of Orrin Brown—Feb 6, 1865
Diary of Orrin Brown, Robertville, SC Monday–Feb. 6th We got up this morning and found ourselves in S. Carolina in a barren scrubby Black Oak country, the soil is sand. We have no marching orders but I think we will move again tomorrow morning, the mail went out again today at 11 AM, I wrote […]
Diary of Orrin Brown—Nov 27, 1864
Diary of Orrin Brown, East of Sandersville, Georgia Sunday–Nov. 27th We were on the road again this morning at 7 Oclock, we haven’t seen any Rebs today. It has been very warm today, our Company went on Picket tonight the first time for me. Jed Marum brought the past alive, combining a deep and abiding […]
Diary of Orrin Brown—Nov 4, 1864
Diary of Orrin Brown, South of Dalton, Georgia Friday–Nov. 4th We layed here at Dalton all day. There is hardly a building in the town that has a window and they are tarring down what buildings there is here and burning them to keep the soldiers warm and cook their vituals, there has 8 trains […]
Sweetback Sisters at the Aztec Theater, 24 Oct 2014
My uncle used to love me but she died.Chicken ain’t chicken until its lickin’ good and friedKeep it on the sunny side. -Sweetback Sisters It is fun to be a critic. In pop culture, politics, academics, whatever, the world is a veritable shooting gallery full of pomp and circumstances that deserve the slings and arrows of […]
Diary of Orrin Brown—Oct 22, 1864
Diary of Orrin Brown, Chattanooga, Tennessee Saturday–Oct. 22nd We got up this morning shivering and no wood to make a fire of, we managed to pick up enough to cook breakfast and dinner by going about a mile after it. I went down to the river and looked around and then down town came back […]
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 […]
Jalan Crossland Packs Cheyenne Downtown
Cheyenne’s Fridays at the Hynds is a bootstrap affair to bring more folks Downtown after work and to provide a friendly venue somewhere between the solo stage and the larger clubs. I say bring folks downtown, rather than keep them downtown, because outside of state & local government, Cheyenne tends to be a suburban affair, […]
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