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2022 Newport Folk Festival Review: An Occasion for Awe

The Newport Folk Festival’s biggest secrets were cleanly hidden and tightly executed with the day-capping revelations of Paul Simon and Joni Mitchell.

By: Paul Robicheau Filed Under: Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Brandi Carlile, Folk, Joni Mitchell, Newport Folk Festival, Paul Robicheau, Paul Simon

Folk CD Review: Mountain Man’s “Magic Ship” — There’s Magic in Them Thar Hills!

When Vermont’s Mountain Man brings us its Appalachian vocal stylings the trio is venturing into the hollers of both the Green and the Blue Ridge Mountains.

By: Jeremy Ray Jewell Filed Under: Featured, Folk, Music, Review, Rock Tagged: Folk, Jeremy Ray Jewell, Magic Ship, Mountain Man

Folk CD Review: Lonnie Holley’s “MITH” — An Act of Restoration

Lonnie Holley’s music on MITH  sounds like a choir of better angels whose multi-layered voice is hard on the outside and soft on the inside, like so much Alabama clay.

By: Jeremy Ray Jewell Filed Under: Featured, Folk, Music, Review Tagged: Folk, Jeremy Ray Jewell, MITH

Jazz CD Review: Dominique Eade and Ran Blake’s Personal Vision of Americana on “Town and Country”

The throughline of “Town and Country” is folk — austere, hardscrabble.

By: Jon Garelick Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Dominique Eade, Folk, Jazz, Ran Blake, Town and Country

Music Interview: Tish Hinojosa on Coming Home

“Being an independent musician is kind of like having an organic farm.”

By: Noah Schaffer Filed Under: Featured, Interview, Music, Preview Tagged: country, Folk, Passim, pop, Tex-Mex, Tish Hinojosa

Album Review: B L A C K I E — Conflating the Barbaric and the Beautiful

Imagine Yourself in a Free and Natural World finds B L A C K I E reaching an ambitious artistic high, delivering potent pieces of jazzy discord that impressively conflate the barbaric and the beautiful.

By: Austen Walsh Filed Under: Featured, Music, Review Tagged: B L A C K I E, Folk, free jazz, hardcore punk, harsh noise, Hip Hop, Imagine Yourself in a Free and Natural World, Michael LaCour

Fuse Flash: Newport Folk Festival 2010 review

The 51st Newport Folk Festival ended on Sunday with 35 acts over 3 days. When all is said and done, you could argue that this is no longer a festival about folk music, but two of the elder statesman that appeared this year—Richie Havens and Levon Helm (of The Band fame)—served as an inspiring bridge […]

By: Charles McEnerney Filed Under: Featured, Folk, Music Tagged: Andrew Bird, April Smith and the Great Picture Show. Pokey LaFarge and the South City Three, arts, Ben Sollee, Blitzen Trapper, Brandi Carlile, Calexico, Charles McEnerney, Dawes, Doc Watson, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Elvis Perkins in Dearland, Folk, Fuse Flash, George Wein, Horse Feathers, Jay Sweet, John Prine, Levon Helm, Music, New England, Newport Folk Festival, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Punch Brothers, Richie Havens, Sam Bush, Sarah Jorosz, Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, Steep Canyon Rangers, Steve Martin, The David Wax Museum, The Felice Brothers, The Low Anthem, The Swell Season, Tim O’Brien, Well-Rounded Radio, What Cheer? Brigade

Folk Album Review: Rebel Folk

Though the last presidential race has faded into a memory, two recent albums from singer-songwriters bring subtle artistry to simmering political anger and alienation. Pierce Woodward, “Blow Them Away” (Long Run Music); James McMurtry, “Childish Things” (Compadre Records) By Danielle Dreilinger A year ago, folk stages were filled with artists like Steve Earle urging people […]

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Music Tagged: Folk, James-McMurtry, Pierce-Woodward

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