Tom Russell
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America the Beautiful
Tom Russell s Hotwalker CD is a portrait of a segment of American culture in a time gone by. Through original songs, narration, and the actual voices of literary and historical figures, Tom constructs a recollection of the.
more » outsider voices of American popular culture, literature and art of the 1960 s. It is Tom Russell s second foray into photographing a piece of America s past, the first being the critically acclaimed The Man From God Knows Where CD.
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Tom Russell s Hotwalker CD is a portrait of a segment of American culture in a time gone by. Through original songs, narration, and the actual voices of literary and historical figures, Tom constructs a recollection of the outsider voices of American popular culture, literature and art of the 1960 s. It is Tom Russell s second foray into photographing a piece of America s past, the first being the crit
Country music, as a genuine subculture — as opposed to a Nashville-created product — is intimately tied to the Alamo City. The music’s roots run deep in.
Dan Auerbach Summons the Ghosts of Mississippi Blues
Dan Auerbach poses with the gem he used to record much of
Delta Kream: a Kawai Kingston S4T once owned by raw blues slide master Hound Dog Taylor. Note Taylor s name on the headstock, courtesy of the Dog himself, via a plastic-label punch.
Photo by Joshua Black Wilkins
On
Delta Kream, the Black Keys and veteran slide master Kenny Brown dig deep to honor R.L. Burnside and Junior Kimbroughâ two of the most important American musicians that ever were.
There s no more biblicalâNew Testament, of courseâintroduction to the raucous, bouncing, mesmeric sound of North Mississippi hill country blues than the new Black Keys album,
Haitian Band Lakou Mizik & Joseph Ray Announce Collaborative Album Leave The Bones
The first single from the project âOgou (Pran Ma Kwen)â is out now.
Author:
Joseph Ray & Haitian band Lakou Mizik have teamed up on a new project titled
Leave The Bones. The unlikely pairing of the former NERO producer and a noted Haitian band may not be obvious, but it has been slowly building over the past six years.
Lakou Mizik is a nine-piece band formed in 2010. The group is helmed by Sanba Zao, one of 10 original Sanba poets left, and an integral part of the 1980’s rasin (racine in French) movement that sought to re-imagine traditional Haitian Vodou music through experimentation with modern instruments. This movement underpins what Lakou Mizik does today and what helped draw Ray to them.
In this week's archive edition we find ourselves back in the home and in conversation with folk singing legend Shirley Collins. This is her story: how she went from collecting voices to finding, losing, and eventually discovering her own again.