Keith Greeninger's "North to Southeast"

It's a few releases back but Keith Greeninger's "North to Southeast" song on his "Wind River Crossing" is simply a stunning 11+ minute folk opera. Unfortunately, no video or audio of it besides a 30 second snippet is available on line and that length doesn't begin to do it justice.

A tribute to Bill Morrissey

Bill Morrissey died in late July but left behind quite the cultural legacy. Anyone providing the world "Birches" and "She's That Kind of Mystery" plus the whole "Something I Saw or Though I Saw" release has given more than taken.

Music as a saviour

Here's a fine read from Glenn W. Smith on a concert by Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell and Vince Gill:

"... If Emily Dickinson could sing she would have become Emmylou Harris. If Marty Robbins had survived “El Paso” he would have become Rodney Crowell. Vince Gill is the Huck Finn of guitar. He plays from the territories ..."

and

"... This great river of American soulfulness, from Anne Hutchinson to Henry Thoreau to Sojourner Truth to Margaret Fuller to Fats Waller to Bob Dylan to William Carlos Williams to William Faulkner to Janis Joplin…why are our politicians so blind and deaf to the gifts these artists bring to us? Why do they want to reduce life some a kind of shadow life, a life in which everything but their own power or pursuit of power is without meaning?"

Terence Martin has passed

Folk singer-songwriter Terence Martin died on November 7 from pancreatic cancer.

Anyone leaving "Waterproof" (Click on #9 on the right) and "The Way It Didn't Go" has left a mark of beauty on this world.

The Pogues via Madison Avenue

I don't think anyone could ever have convinced me that a national car campaign would be backed by any Pogues song. Consider me wrong. Happily so.



Here's the real thing: