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Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Stream buffering issues appear fixed
If you have been trying to connect to the Online Folk Festival over the last couple days and have experienced severe stream buffering, those problems were at Live365.com's end and it appears that those have been fixed. So, plese stop by the Online Folk Festival again.
Monday, August 29, 2005
No Featured Artist This Week
The Featured Artist of the Week is taking a vacation this week, but there will still be all kinds of great music on shuffle play.
Next week's Featured Artist of the Week will be Kate Campbell.
Next week's Featured Artist of the Week will be Kate Campbell.
Monday, August 22, 2005
Jimmie Dale Gilmore featured August 22-28
With Butch Hancock and Joe Ely, he was a member of the seminal 70s Texas band the Flatlanders. Since then, he's put out several solo CDs of country/folk featuring his high lonesome vocal and his Zen-like lyrics. On his newest, the just-released Come On Back, Gilmore covers classic country songs that his father, a guitar player himself, loved and played while Gilmore was growing up in Lubbock. The album is a tribute to his father, who died 5 years ago from ALS. More on the making of the album here.
Monday, August 15, 2005
Richard Thompson Featured August 15-21
With Fairport Convention he was one of the pioneers of folk rock. With his then-wife Linda, he put out some of the best albums of the late 70s/early 80s, with Shoot Out the Lights named in Rolling Stone's Top 10 of the 80s. As a solo artist, Richard Thompson continues to wow audiences with his mad guitar skills and to write literate story songs, often about people with quirks and dark problems. His new album, Front Parlour Ballads, provides a more stripped-down and acoustic setting for Thompson's guitar and storytelling genius.
Monday, August 08, 2005
Carrie Newcomer Featured August 8-14
Carrie Newcomer has a great new CD coming out August 9, and so she is this week's Featured Artist of the Week. Regulars and Refugees explores the lives of the fictional patrons of Betty's Diner, a mythical small-town diner. We'll feature tracks from this new one as well as favorites spanning Newcomer's career.
Monday, August 01, 2005
John Wesley Harding and The Love Hall Tryst
John Wesley Harding and his new project The Love Hall Tryst will be the Featured Artists of the Week this week (8/1-8/7). Harding, long a critically acclaimed singer/songwriter, has written a novel, Miss Fortune, under his real name, Wesley Stace. He has recruited some additional vocalists to help him record an album of tunes relating to the novel, mostly traditional tunes performed as four-part a capella vocals. This group's album, The Love Hall Tryst has just been released, so that gives me a good reason to feature both them and some of my favorite tracks from Wes' entire career.
