- Blogs, Bleader, May 6, 2013
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12 O'Clock Track: John Martyn's grizzled-man folk jam "Over the Hill"
A particularly poignant track from the singer-songwriter's 1973 folk-jazz hallmark, Solid Air
- Performing Arts, Culture Vultures, Apr 4, 2013
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This week's Culture Vultures recommend:
House of Cards, There Is a Happiness That Morning Is, The Boy Detective Fails, and Chicago Whispers
- Music, The Secret History of Chicago Music, Apr 19, 2012
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The Secret History of Chicago Music: Cindy Mangsen
There's still time to appreciate this brilliant but underrecognized folksinger: she released a duo album with her husband in January.
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 17, 2012
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Folksinger John Jacob Niles, salvaged
Jeremy Barnes and Heather Trost of A Hawk and a Hacksaw reissue rare recordings by pioneering Appalachian folksinger John Jacob Niles.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 12, 2011
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Norway's Phaedra: Folk Without Ancestors
The gorgeous debut album from Oslo's Phaedra is wonderfully hard to pigeonhole.
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 24, 2009
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Ben Reynolds Keeps Listeners Guessing
British guitarist Ben Reynolds plays Heaven Gallery on Wednesday in one (or more) of his many musical guises.
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 8, 2009
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Tim Buckley, Captured Live in 1967
- Blogs, Bleader, Aug 3, 2009
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MP3s and Memories From Roger McGuinn
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 26, 2008
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6/26 -- Gazsa at Grant Park
6/26 -- Gazsa at Grant Park
- Blogs, Bleader, May 27, 2008
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The Hobo's Last Ride: RIP Utah Phillips, 1935-2008
RIP Utah Phillips
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 25, 2008
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Scottish strangeness
The strange strings of Scotland's Nalle debut in Chicago.
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 19, 2008
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Virtual hospital visits for Utah Phillips
Follow the progress of ailing Utah Phillips, possibly America's greatest living folk historian, on his son's blog.
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 28, 2007
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Digging the past
The story of early American music keeps unfolding.
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 19, 2007
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Today in bizarre collaborations
Janet Reno's super all-American mix tape.
