FolkBlog

It’s not folk music, but it sure is good…
I was lucky enough last week to see Over the Rhine live for the first time in a couple years at a small local club. Man, are they good. The band was tight and they pulled out some chestnuts from the deep vaults, including “Within, Wihtout” from [...]

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Was fortunate enough to see Vancouver, BC’s The Clumsy Lovers at an outdoor concert Sunday evening. If you can’t enjoy The Clumsy Lovers, then you don’t have a pulse. They play an engaging blend of bluegrass/folk/rock/Celtic with great skill and efficiency. Both the fiddler and banjo player are of remarkable skill on their instruments.
The most [...]

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The best anti-war CD I’ve heard recently doesn’t contain a single piece of hostile rhetoric. Carol Noonan’s Somebody’s Darling: Songs of War, Loss, and Remembrance, testifies simply about the effect of war on regular people: the girlfriends and wives left behind and the grief of those who have experienced life changing horrors.
The album is [...]

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