Facts first: chartmaker Billboard announced last week that starting with their Dec 5th issue, they will be adding a Folk Albums chart to their sales-tracking activities. Snip: …The Nielsen SoundScan-based survey will house new releases from traditional folk artists such Joan Baez, Ani DiFranco and Monsters of Folk, as well as appropriate titles by acoustic-based [...]
Lissie ‘Everywhere I Go’ Hailing from a blue-collar town perched on the muddy banks of Mississippi, Lissie seems born to be a beguiling singer-songwriter. She is in possession of the kind of wholesome, flaxen-hair-and-freckles good looks rife in troubadouresses, while her Myspace describes her as a “son-of-a-gun in a sundress”, and details nostalgic, sepia-tinted summers of...
A long-awaited survey of the life and times of a cultural icon. Given Joan Baez’s centrality to American cultural and political life over the past five decades, the greatest surprise about this documentary is that it wasn’t made much sooner. While Bob Dylan’s career has been the subject of a multitude of docs and bios, essays and retrospectives, Baez’s work -- both as artist...
IT WAS early June 1989. Václav Havel had been released from jail only days before, yet he was full of what now seems an almost prophetic certainty. Thousands of his countrymen
Way back when, we talked about mondegreens . And then we talked some more . This is one of the funniest examples I've seen. And yeah, I know, internal links in the old posts are mostly dead and gone. Incidentally, one of the worst examples is when Joan Baez presumed to sing "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down." It was Stoneman's cavalry.
I like the Borderline . It's handily located a minute's walk from my office, it's never overwhelmingly loud, and the GCSE-art-project decor is cute. Last night I went there to see Dar Williams , in the company of a former colleague from a long time ago and some of her friends. They were all big-time fans who have all her albums, while I only have a few bootlegged tracks which I liked enough to want...
Billboard has finally gotten over some of its archaic charting methods (Catalogue albums, anyone?) and is going to include a 15 spot chart for fold music beginning 2010. This will cater to artists like Ani DiFranco, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and their fans. This also comes with the revamping of the Billboard 200. It’s still [...]
With their country in deep political crisis, Czechs will take to the streets throughout the country Tuesday to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the end of decades of repressive communist rule.
With their country in deep political crisis, Czechs will take to the streets throughout the country Tuesday to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the end of decades of repressive communist rule.
Plain wonderful is the way to describe Christine Ebersole's jazzy, polished 80-minute set Saturday night at the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater. The two-time Tony Award winner tickled the audience right off the bat by crooning "Fascinating Rhythm" with her four-piece combo, cupping her hands over her...
“I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.” Vaclav Havel Sometimes I get lucky. Last night was one of those nights. V and I attended the very special concert and celebration to mark the 20th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution. It was held before a few hundred people...
'Cockney Kid: The Making of an Uncoventional Psychologist' Photo shows Honourable Hugh Templeton launching 'Cockney Kid: The Making of an Uncoventional Psychologist ', the memoirs of Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Victoria University Tony Taylor. Launched today at Kapiti's Mediterranean Warehouse with its famed Sicilian olives, hams, cheeses and Italian wines, the owner had barely enough seats...
Former Czech president Vaclav Havel opened festivities in Prague celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution, which toppled the communist regime in 1989.
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