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Call it Folk Music
http://callitfolk.blogspot.com
a quiet audio blog; folk, indie, world, and instrumental
- Added on: Oct 8th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
Recent Posts
Happy Thanksgiving from the Tunesmith....
I hope you have a wonderful holiday. Keep safe and don't pig out too much on the bird. I'll probably post something Thursday, but I might take a breather, who knows. Thanks for visiting the blog....tunesmith...
Eliza Gilkyson - An Introduction
Here is a quick intro to the music of the great, talented, unpretentious, soulful, singer-songwriter Eliza Gilkyson. I still make the assumption that there are a zillion folks out there who haven't heard of most of these acoustic artists. The three s...
Liz Durrett - Three MP3s
Liz Durrett is a gifted songwriter, but take note of her interpretations of the two cover songs, "November", and "How Can I Tell You". Her vocal phrasings are smooth, but dark and smokey, at times other-worldly. The melody lines are changed ever so s...
Steffen Basho-Junghans - Guitarist
German acoustic guitarist Steffen Basho-Junghans has so convincingly furthered the Takoma-era steel string concepts of John Fahey and Robbie Basho that in his hands the instrument's potential once more feels limitless.- a quote from The Wire. I never...
Mark Davis - Two MP3s
Mark Davis (of Old Reliable fame) is now working on his third solo project, due for release in early 2010. These MP3s are from his 2007 double-CD releases, "Don't You Think We Should be Closer?", and "Mistakes I Meant to Make". The intimacy of his gu...
La Ciapa Rusa
Over the years La Ciapa Rusa have researched and given new life to obscure (by it's very nature I suppose) traditional music of Italy, much of which has never been recorded in the field, or even notated. The Piedmont group changed personnel often, bu...
