Get the Big Picture (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Precious Starring Gabby Sidibe, Mo'Nique, Paula Patton, and Mariah Carey Directed by Lee Daniels Rated R Texas-based singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith doesn't have much in common with the characters in Precious , but while watching the film I was nevertheless reminded over and over again her song "It's a Hard Life Wheverever You Go": It's a hard life, it's a hard life, it's a very hard life...
Band Weblogs (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Tom Paxton January/ February 2010 UK tour dates Grammy nominee and Lifetime Achievement award-winner (Recording Academy, BBC and ASCAP) and perennial US folk music legend returns to the UK for a short tour and new live DVD, in what will be an incredible SIXTH decade as a live performer.
New World Notes (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Exclusive to NWN, Willow Caldera covers SL's burgeoning live music scene Though new to the Second Life music scene, Carmel Daines has been mixing her musical influences since childhood, binding together an Americana recipe that includes the sounds of her...
DownWithTyranny! (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Headquarters of a lethal cancer in the heart of our nation's capital If you visit us here at DWT from time to time, you may recall how excited I was earlier in the year about Nanci Griffith's new album, The Loving Kind , especially because I learned all about a Virginia couple, Richard and Mildred Loving , who traveled to Washington, DC in order to get married in June, 1958. It was illegal at the time...
department63 (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Well I'm glad to say the rain did ease off a bit today, so flooding averted! It did continue into the night and the river did overspill, but was retained by a small wall. Not much comfort, knowing that the forecast is for more heavy rain tomorrow and Sunday. Song of the Day: From Clare To Here [Nanci Griffith]
The Bluegrass Blog (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
The Blue Ridge Parkway is a venerable institution in our part of the world. This scenic drive runs 469 miles, from Shenandoah National Park (south of Charlottesville, VA) to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina (southwest of Asheville). The road winds through the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests in Virginia, and the [...]
PopMatters Music (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Flores has added a few valuable numbers to her discography and a bunch of sassy standards that suggest once again that she will be happiest strapping on an electric guitar and rocking out on a stage. It is now over 20 years since Rosie Flores's self-titled debut album arrived in the midst of the "new country" movement that spawned Randy Travis, Dwight Yoakam, Nanci Griffith, and Lyle Lovett....
wears the trousers magazine (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
FEATURING: kristin hersh, anaïs mitchell, nina nastasia, holly golightly, melody gardot, rose kemp, kelli ali, those dancing days, rose elinor dougall, my ruin, sandy dillon, the ditty bops, madam, kamila thompson, pepi ginsberg, kim richey and society of imaginary friends FEATURING: cerys matthews, bat for lashes, rickie lee jones, scout niblett, the fiery furnaces, basia bulat, my brightest...
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Nathaniel Rateliff had a shot at being the next chart-topper like Chris Daughtry or Chad Kroeger. Instead, the Denver-based singer-songwriter chose a very different path, one that could make him the next underground hero like Bon Iver or Iron & Wine.
The Music Digest (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Armed with a knack for storytelling and cowgirl logic, Eliza Gilkyson's music evokes the spirit of Lucinda Williams, Shawn Colvin and Nanci Griffith yet spins a sound distinctly its own. Cassandra Wilson turns out hypnotic African beats meets bluesy swing on Loverly.
Paramus Post (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Bring a Surprising Mix of Jazz, Bluegrass, Bebop and More … to the stage at bergenPAC - Saturday November 21st - 8:00 PM With a total of 11 Grammy wins and a whopping 27 nominations, banjo big-hit Béla Fleck and the Flecktones bring their multifaceted and seemingly unrivaled sound to the stage at bergenPAC on November 21st, at 8 p.m. Since the beginning, Fleck bounced between a handful...
SLV Dweller (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Voted #1 a cappella band in the U.S. in 2007, the four members of Moira Smiley and VOCO create post-folk, improvisation-built songs while digging into old Americana and Eastern European sounds, and they are coming to Alamosa, Col. on Wed., Nov. 11, 7:30 p.m., courtesy of the Alamosa Live Music Association (ALMA) and the Adams State College music department. Admission is $14 for the general public,...
Terrierman's Daily Dose (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
Nanci Griffith peforms the old Stephen Foster classic "Hard Times Come Again No More." More Nanci Griffith here and here . . From: Terrierman's Daily Dose To order the book. web site.
Some Velvet Blog (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
The legendary singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith has a new album called The Loving Kind and she's offering a free download of the title song about a Louisiana court judge's decision to back an interracial marriage. Richard and Mildred Loving were a married white man and black woman who were forced to leave their native state of Virginia under threat of arrest because of the state’s Jim Crow law...
post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
The title track of Nanci Griffith's new CD, "The Loving Kind," about the Loving v. Virginia case that ended the ban on interracial marriagesin 1967, became oddly topical in 2009 last week when a Louisiana court judge banned a such a marriage. In protest, Griffith is making the sweet country-folk ballad a free download on her web site www.NanciGriffith.com , for the next 30 days. Griffith...
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