"He Died Giving a Voice to Chile’s Poor. A Quest for Justice Took Decades.
The activist folk singer Victor Jara was murdered in the days after a 1973 coup that brought Gen. Augusto Pinochet to power. A quest for his killers led to a Florida courtroom" Clyde Haberman
Thursday, November 29, 2018
Wednesday, November 28, 2018
The 20 Best Folk Albums of 2018
"The 20 Best Folk Albums of 2018" Jonathan Frahm & Elisabeth Woronzoff
Sunday, November 25, 2018
A review of a Gregory Alan Isakov concert
"Gregory Alan Isakov fills Royale with folk-music while supporting latest album" Morgan Hume
Can never pass up any opportunity to post this Isakov song:
"remember when our songs were just like prayers.
like gospel hymns that you called in the air.
come down come down sweet reverence,
unto my simple house and ring…
and ring.
ring like silver, ring like gold
ring out those ghosts on the ohio ring
like clear day wedding bells
were we the belly of the beast or the sword that fell…we’ll never tell.
come to me clear and cold on some sea
watch the world spinning waves…like some machine
now i’ve been crazy couldn’t you tell
i threw stones at the stars, but the whole sky fell
now i’m covered up in straw, belly up on the table
well i drank and sang, and passed in the stable.
that tall grass grows high and brown,
well i dragged you straight in the muddy ground
and you sent me back to where i roam
well i cursed and i cried, but now i know…now i know
and i ran back to that hollow again
the moon was just a sliver back then
and i ached for my heart like some tin man
when it came oh it beat and it boiled and it rang…
it’s ringing ring like crazy, ring like hell
turn me back into that wild haired gale
ring like silver, ring like gold
turn these diamonds straight back into coal."
Can never pass up any opportunity to post this Isakov song:
"remember when our songs were just like prayers.
like gospel hymns that you called in the air.
come down come down sweet reverence,
unto my simple house and ring…
and ring.
ring like silver, ring like gold
ring out those ghosts on the ohio ring
like clear day wedding bells
were we the belly of the beast or the sword that fell…we’ll never tell.
come to me clear and cold on some sea
watch the world spinning waves…like some machine
now i’ve been crazy couldn’t you tell
i threw stones at the stars, but the whole sky fell
now i’m covered up in straw, belly up on the table
well i drank and sang, and passed in the stable.
that tall grass grows high and brown,
well i dragged you straight in the muddy ground
and you sent me back to where i roam
well i cursed and i cried, but now i know…now i know
and i ran back to that hollow again
the moon was just a sliver back then
and i ached for my heart like some tin man
when it came oh it beat and it boiled and it rang…
it’s ringing ring like crazy, ring like hell
turn me back into that wild haired gale
ring like silver, ring like gold
turn these diamonds straight back into coal."
Wednesday, November 7, 2018
Remembering Terence Martin
Terence Martin passed on this day in 2011. His exquisite musical works live on:
"Remembering Terence Martin, A Gifted Singer-Songwriter"
Here is one of his most beguiling creations:
"where is the life the life we might have led
it started on the corner where we never met
I nearly turned to you you nearly turned to me
at the intersection of what is and what could be
what would have happened we'll never know
that's the way it didn't go
I saw a child who might have had our name
he passed me in a crowd just the other day
he spoke some words but none of them were clear
our shadows nearly touched as he disappeared
did he have your eyes? I'll never know
that's the way it didn't go
Ii'm not myself today & you're not who you are
we're one lane over riding in that car
they read a map but they don't recognize the road
and if they think about us they don't let it show
where did they turn? we'll never know
that's the way it didn't go
the door you didn't walk through
the girl you didn't talk to
the light you didn't run that day
the call you didn't answer
the unrequited dancer
you met her glance and turned away
put it down lightly you know how things can break
I can't forget the love we didn't make
the sun that didn't rise through
the window that's not there
the way it didn't fall
on your face and on your hair
what did you dream? I'll never know
that's the way it didn't go
what might have been? we'll never know
that's the way it didn't go"
"Remembering Terence Martin, A Gifted Singer-Songwriter"
Here is one of his most beguiling creations:
"where is the life the life we might have led
it started on the corner where we never met
I nearly turned to you you nearly turned to me
at the intersection of what is and what could be
what would have happened we'll never know
that's the way it didn't go
I saw a child who might have had our name
he passed me in a crowd just the other day
he spoke some words but none of them were clear
our shadows nearly touched as he disappeared
did he have your eyes? I'll never know
that's the way it didn't go
Ii'm not myself today & you're not who you are
we're one lane over riding in that car
they read a map but they don't recognize the road
and if they think about us they don't let it show
where did they turn? we'll never know
that's the way it didn't go
the door you didn't walk through
the girl you didn't talk to
the light you didn't run that day
the call you didn't answer
the unrequited dancer
you met her glance and turned away
put it down lightly you know how things can break
I can't forget the love we didn't make
the sun that didn't rise through
the window that's not there
the way it didn't fall
on your face and on your hair
what did you dream? I'll never know
that's the way it didn't go
what might have been? we'll never know
that's the way it didn't go"
Saturday, November 3, 2018
Remembering Al Grierson
On November 2 in 2000, Al Grierson passed. Certainly one of a kind and a literate songwriter who drew from spirituality, philosophy, history and more.
"May you set your shoes to dancing in the hour of your death and meet it with the courage it deserves
May your shadow pass in pirouettes of such amazing grace that the tears of those who mourn you disappear without a trace
In a smoke that shapes their sorrow to the fading of your feet
In a ring around the rainbow where the circle is complete"
This is Ray Wylie Hubbard performing Grierson's "Resurrection"
"May you set your shoes to dancing in the hour of your death and meet it with the courage it deserves
May your shadow pass in pirouettes of such amazing grace that the tears of those who mourn you disappear without a trace
In a smoke that shapes their sorrow to the fading of your feet
In a ring around the rainbow where the circle is complete"
This is Ray Wylie Hubbard performing Grierson's "Resurrection"
Remembering Eva Cassidy
On November 2 in 1996, Eva Cassidy died. Her musical brilliance is evident in her performing covers more intimate and touching than the originals. A few examples:
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