According to Country Music Hall Of Fame Inductee, Johnny Cash, the collective 1927 Bristol Sessions was, without a doubt, “the single most important event in the history of Country Music”. "The Victor Co. will have a recording machine in Bristol for 10 days beginning Monday to record records — inquire at our store." That was … Continue reading The Bristol Sessions : 90 Years after the Big Bang of Country Music
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Charlie Parr : Extraordinary Performer
Charlie Parr is an American country blues musician from Minnesota. He was born in Austin, Minnesota and spent part of his childhood in Hollandale. He started his music career in Duluth, Minnesota. His influences include Charlie Patton, Bukka White, Reverend Gary Davis, Dave Van Ronk, and Mississippi John Hurt. He plays a custom made Mule … Continue reading Charlie Parr : Extraordinary Performer
Harry Smith and the Anthology of American Folk Music
Sixty-five years ago this year an event occcured which changed the course of American music. A unassuming man, unknown, with no professional expertise other than his devotion to old 78s of American vernacular music, released to the public the Anthology of American Folk Music. “Had he never done anything with his life but this Anthology, … Continue reading Harry Smith and the Anthology of American Folk Music
Rayna Gellert : From Violin to Fiddle
Rayna Gellert is an American violinist and singer specializing in old-time music. She grew up in Elkhart, in northern Indiana. Her father is the traditional fiddler and banjo player Dan Gellert. Originally a classically trained violinist, she took up the old-time fiddle in 1994, when she moved to North Carolina to attend Warren Wilson College. … Continue reading Rayna Gellert : From Violin to Fiddle
Eilen Jewell : Soulful, Understated Narratives
Eilen Jewell is an American singer-songwriter from Boise, Idaho. "I always felt like I wanted to leave," Jewell says. "And I remember when I learned the word 'wanderlust,' I felt like I finally had a word to describe myself." Jewell attended college in Santa Fe, New Mexico where she began busking on the streets of Sante … Continue reading Eilen Jewell : Soulful, Understated Narratives
The Steel Wheels : Wild As We Came Here
The Steel Wheels are a roots and Americana band, writing and playing music in the closely related but unique styles of blues, bluegrass, old-time music, and fiddle music. Virginia musician Trent Wagler is the lead vocalist and the band's primary songwriter. Jay Lapp (mandolin, guitar, vocals) had been touring in several bands throughout the Midwest … Continue reading The Steel Wheels : Wild As We Came Here
Vernacular Music : 12th Century Troubadours to Singer-Songwriters
The tradition of a solo singer providing music for a community or gathering is very old. As far back as the 12th century with the troubadours and trouvères of France as well as the minnesinger from Germany, all the way up to today's buskers the singer of vernacular music has been a recognizable feature of … Continue reading Vernacular Music : 12th Century Troubadours to Singer-Songwriters
The hidden Baroque : Björn Schmelzer, Peter Paul Rubens and Orazio Vecchi
“I have never felt this “other” Baroque with quite the sense of anachronistic shock which I experienced when first encountering the cover photgraph for this CD. At first glance, it almost looks as though it represents the lamenting Mediterrean culture of pleureuses (professional mourners), but it is in fact a funeral procession on the little … Continue reading The hidden Baroque : Björn Schmelzer, Peter Paul Rubens and Orazio Vecchi
The St. Gregory Society Schola : Palestrina and the Tridentine Mass
I was raised in the Catholic Church, educated at Jesuit schools and was an altar boy for several years from the age of eight, or so. I was taught enough of the Latin Mass to be able to assist the priest and recite the proper responses during the mass (we also had four years of Latin … Continue reading The St. Gregory Society Schola : Palestrina and the Tridentine Mass
HIP Debussy and Ravel : The Eroica Quartet
The Eroica QuartetGustav Clarkson, vlVicci Wardman, vl Peter Hanson, vnDavid Watkin, vc In Britain, the Eroica Quartet, founded in 1993 by four of the country's leading period-instrument performers, have the field virtually to themselves. Three of the members are principals in John Eliot Gardiner's Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique (which specialises in early 19th-century repertoire) and the Eroica … Continue reading HIP Debussy and Ravel : The Eroica Quartet
Musica Kaleidoskopea 