FolkBlog

This week’s folk video is a little more contemporary than the last two - The Kennedys have several really great videos up at youtube, and this is one of them from Half a Million Miles - “Time Ain’t Long.” Enjoy

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We’ve entered Lent, one of the most important periods in the annual Christian calendar. During Lent, I like to pull out my albums of hymns, and I thought I would share some of my favorites.

Innocence Mission: Christ is My Hope. This is one of my favorite albums of hymns, and I get it [...]

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New Adds to the Online Folk Festival, February 17, 2007

Patty Griffin - Children Running Through
Matthew Temple - The Journey
Darcy Lynne Ward - What Else is New
Mare Wakefield - Take Me Home
Anais Mitchell - The Brightness
David Bromberg - Try Me One More Time

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This week’s folk video is The Weavers’ classic cover of “Goodnight Irene.” During the performance, they pay tribute to Hudie Ledbetter (Leadbelly). Enjoy!

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Okay, everyone else is jumping on the YouTube bandwagon. Why not the FolkBlog? So, here it is, the first of many Folk Videos of the Week. And, who better to start with than the man himself, Woody Guthrie?
This clip, of Woody, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee is one of few surviving clips of Woody Guthrie [...]

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Songs from the following albums have been added to the Online Folk Festival:

Eddi Reader - Peacetime
Po’ Girl - Home To You
Nathan - Key Principles
John Parkes - Faithlessnessless
Switchback - Falling Water River
Fred Gillen - Gone Gone Gone
Various Artists - Azalea Sampler 2
Bruce Piephoff - Sogni D’Oro
Various Artists - The Complete Songs of Robert Tannehill, Volume 1
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I had never heard of Nathan, a folk/rock group from Winnipeg, before receiving their new release Key Principles in the mail last week. I don’t know how I missed them before, but I was so impressed with this disk that I went on emusic.com and downloaded their previous CD as well, the Juno-nominated Jimson Weed.
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Top 41 Tracks for Janaury 2007, as determined by the listeners of the Online Folk Festival:
Position - Artist - Track - Album
1. Davy Cowan - Moving On - Fragile People2. Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh - Seoithin Seotho - daybreak: fainne an lae3. Bruce Cockburn - This Is Baghdad - Life Short Call Now4. Mary Fahl - [...]

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