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Friday Nov 6 | Creative Loafing

Best local folk act

The tree-hugging post-hippies of the '80s stripped folk music of its bite in a way that surely caused Woody Guthrie to do back flips in his grave.

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Related Topix: Folk

Wed Nov 04, 2009

Cybergrass

Guthrie Legacy Continues With New Addition To Folkways Family Music Canon

BMNN wrote: on Nov. 04, 2009: Over 60 years after Folkways Records released Woody Guthrie's first children's/family music album in 1947, his granddaughter Sarah Lee Guthrie is ensuring the family's commitment to children's music and its longstanding collaboration with Smithsonian Folkways, the home of Folkways Records.

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Related Topix: Folk

Des Moines Register

Old-time music still applies

Revivalist string band Old Crow Medicine Show has the look and sound of a band from another era, playing a mix of country, bluegrass and Americana songs that were written decades before anyone in the band was born.

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Related Topix: Folk, Doc Watson

Tue Nov 03, 2009

Westword

Q&A with Jonson Kuhn of Jonny Woodrose & the Broken Hearted Woodpeckers

In the short time Jonny Woodrose & the Broken-Hearted Woodpeckers have been together, the outfit has grown from being a bit of a joke band vehicle for singer Jonson Kuhn's humorous storytelling into one of the most engaging and fun Americana bands in the scene.

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Related Topix: Folk

Thu Oct 29, 2009

Westword

Ten band inspired costume ideas

Halloween, the time when adults decide to don their favorite witty getups, whether it be the intellectual "Freudian slip" or the pop culture driven "Christian Bale Yelling." We're sure some of you are short on ideas, so we've compiled a list of band inspired costumes to wear to your favorite party.

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Related Topix: Life, Halloween, Holidays, Folk, Electronic, The Avalanches

Wed Oct 28, 2009

Syracuse New Times

Arlo Guthrie Interview

Arlo Guthrie is a musician inevitably connected to the legacy of his father, the folk music icon Woody Guthrie, the 'folk boom' of Greenwich Village in the 1960s, and the 1969 'music and arts festival' that was Woodstock.

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Related Topix: Alice's Restaurant, Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, Folk, Arlo Guthrie, Woodstock, VA, Symphony, Arts

Woot

Bruce Springsteen Music Collection

There is a story we have heard that we'd like to share with you. The story goes that folk legend Woody Guthrie was in his house, and a young man jumped his fence to meet him.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Bruce Springsteen, Folk, Entertainment, Drama, Television

Mon Oct 26, 2009

Bohemian.com

PG&E blocks climate-protection efforts of Marin's Community Choice Aggregate

It's amazing what people will do for money. Woody Guthrie wrote "Roll On Columbia" for the Bonneville Power Administration in 1941.

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Related Topix: Folk, Marketing, San Joaquin, CA, Novato, CA, Corte Madera, CA, Larkspur, CA

Sat Oct 24, 2009

Pacific Sun

Music: What's goin' on?

"Come back Woody Guthrie, come back to us now," Steve Earle implored in his stirring 1997 ballad "Christmastime in Washington." "Tear your eyes from paradise--and rise again somehow." It's a socialist's pipedream that's gained urgency at a time when President Obama is branded as a communist and even PBS-TV filmmaker Ken Burns has come under fire ...

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Related Topix: Folk, Pop/Rock, Dire Straits

Thu Oct 22, 2009

American Reporter

MomentumWE have Overcome

DUMMERSTON, Vt. -- In 1940, believing that "God Bless America" was too passive an anthem, the great folk singer Woody Guthrie wrote an answer called " Your Land." Pete Seeger, God bless him, sang it at the Inaugural Concert at the Lincoln Memorial on Sunday.

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Related Topix: Folk, Lincoln Memorial, US National Parks, George Bush, Dick Cheney

Wed Oct 21, 2009

Daily Herald

Guthrie honors heritage with 'family' tour

Arlo Guthrie brings his mix of music, storytelling and commentary to the suburbs for two shows this weekend.

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Related Topix: Alice's Restaurant, Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, Folk, Arlo Guthrie, Glen Ellyn, IL, Waukegan, IL

Sun Oct 18, 2009

WisInfo

Sheboygan Light Rail to open Wisconsin Performing Arts Series

The Plymouth Arts Center will present Sheboygan Light Rail in concert at 7 p.m., Saturday, Oct.

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Related Topix: Sheboygan Metro, Sheboygan, WI, Plymouth, WI, Folk, Indigo Girls, Lakeland College

Fri Oct 16, 2009

Richmond.com

This View Is Our View

As I was walkin' - I saw a sign there And that sign said - no tress passin' But on the other side ... it didn't say nothin! Now that side was made for you and me! -- From Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land" For a generation of music-loving Richmonders the second Saturday in October always meant another edition of High on the Hog -- the annual ...

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Related Topix: Folk, Richmond, VA, North Yorkshire County, England, World News, United Kingdom, Greater London County, England, Wedding

Wed Oct 14, 2009

Detroit News

Arlo Guthrie's family affair

Some musicians travel with a big entourage, but it's hard to top Arlo Guthrie's posse.

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Related Topix: Folk, Arlo Guthrie, Mount Pleasant, MI, The Carter Family, Country

Chronicle Times

Elliott to release 'Redemption Man'

Iowa singer/songwriter Chad Elliott's much anticipated album "Redemption Man," will be released in Cherokee, on Oct.

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Related Topix: Folk, Okemah, OK

Tue Oct 13, 2009

Grand Haven Tribune

Folk singer to perform Oct. 15 at GH library

Folk singer Mark Dvorak, who follows in the footsteps of Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie, will perform at Loutit District Library, 407 Columbus Ave., at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct.

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Related Topix: Mark Dvorak, Folk, Pete Seeger

Mon Oct 12, 2009

Boing Boing

Copyright vs. folk music

Doron sez, "Folk musician Steven Arntson wanted to write a song that riffed on a Woody Guthrie's 'I Ain't Got No Home'. Guthrie's song was based on the Carter Family's 'This World Is Not My Home' which was in turn based on an old spirtual... Unfortunately Arnston is finding out that current copyright law does not allow for the creative give and ...

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Related Topix: Folk

Sun Oct 11, 2009

Journal News

Along for the ride

Arlo Guthrie gathers three generations of family members together to perform the clan's favorite hits on stage at The Irvington Town Hall Theatre.

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Related Topix: Folk, Arlo Guthrie

Fri Oct 09, 2009

Metromix Connecticut

The Guthrie Family

If anyone can lay claim to being the "First Family" of folk, it would have to be the Guthries.

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Related Topix: Folk, Music, Entertainment

Thu Oct 08, 2009

City Paper

Your Local Faves, Playing Other People's Songs

Because I wrote about Title Tracks' versions of songs byA The Flamin' Groovies andA The Merseybeats earlierA this week, and because Bob Dylan 's trulyA atrociousA new disc of Christmas standards leaked yesterday, I've been thinking a lot about covers.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, The Merseybeats, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Punk, John Davis, Country, Folk, Music, Entertainment

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