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11 hrs ago | Boise Weekly

The Cave Singers Come to Boise

As the folk revival rages on in the indie music scene, many bands continue to look backward, aping the sound and look of Dust Bowl Okies and all things Woody Guthrie.

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Related Topix: Boise, ID, Folk, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Indie

Tue Jun 18, 2013

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Music DVD+CD Review: Various Artists - "Woody Guthrie at 100! Live at the Kennedy Center"

We've been celebrating the life and legacy of Woody Guthrie for decades now, and rightly so.

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Related Topix: Folk, Train Disaster, Music, Entertainment

Mon Jun 17, 2013

WNYC-AM New York

Billy Bragg: Tiny Desk Concert

Bragg, one of the world's finest contemporary folksingers, appropriately sang "Handyman Blues" as his first tune - and was quickly met with lot of hammering on our rooftop by some real handymen as they put the finishing touches on NPR's new home.

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Related Topix: Folk

Albany Times Union

Anti-fracking groups rally in Albany

An anti-fracking demonstration attracted more than 2,000 activists to the eastern side of the Capitol at midday Monday.

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Related Topix: Albany, NY, Pop/Rock, Natalie Merchant, Folk, Andrew Cuomo, US Governors

Fri Jun 14, 2013

KMCX-FM Ogallala

Preview moments from American icon Woody Guthrie's tribute

In October 2012, a diverse group of musicians gathered to honor him with a special concert, Woody Guthrie at 100! Live at the Kennedy Center , which paid tribute to his unique artistry.

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Related Topix: Folk

Mon Jun 10, 2013

Cybergrass

Del McCoury Band to Premier "Del & Woody" at Caramoor Roots Fest

On Saturday, June 29th at The Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts - Venetian Theater, The Del McCoury Band will headline Caramoor's American Roots Music Festival - a daylong celebration of folk, string band, country, blues, gospel, and bluegrass music.

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Related Topix: Arts, Theater, Folk

Morning Star

Bragg power thrills at the Union

In the first of an occasional series on radical art, Christine Lindey evaluates the continuing impact of the ideas and practice of William Morris East Asian playwright DAVID HENRY HWANG talks to Anna Chen about issues of cultural assimilation and equality of opportunity just about equality of opportunity Yvonne Lysandrou wonders why on earth the ... (more)

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Related Topix: Folk

Thu Jun 06, 2013

New York Daily News

Music stars pay tribute to folk singer Woody Guthrie

What may be most impressive about this lovely centennial tribute to Woody Guthrie is how well it captures the flexibility of his music.

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Related Topix: Folk, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Entertainment

KSLX-FM Phoenix

Happy Together - Turtles - 1967

It was planned to be the first manned mission of the Apollo lunar landing program to launch in February 1967.

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Related Topix: Folk, Pop/Rock, The Beatles

Wed Jun 05, 2013

The Daily Republic

Our Music Year No. 156: Neil Young and Crazy Horse, 'Americana'

Neil Young's 34th studio effort, "Americana," is a collection of American folk songs.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Folk

Thu May 30, 2013

Hispanic Business

Troubadour Ellis Paul returns to Boothbay Opera House June 15 [Sun Journal (Lewiston, ME)]

A veteran, constantly touring troubadour, Ellis Paul is one of the most respected artists in the folk genre.

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Related Topix: Ellis Paul, Folk, Lewiston, ME, Celebrities, Jim Carrey, Boothbay Harbor, ME

Tue May 28, 2013

New Hampshire Public Radio -

Coming Home: The Woody Guthrie Center Opens In Tulsa

Outside the Woody Guthrie Center, there's a large mural of Guthrie holding his guitar with the phrase, "This Machine Kills Fascists." Woody Guthrie with his parents Nora Belle and Charley, and brother George, at their home in Okemah, Okla., in 1926.

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Related Topix: Folk, Okemah, OK, Oklahoma, Norman, OK

National Public Radio

Coming Home: The Woody Guthrie Center Opens In Tulsa

Woody Guthrie 's relationship with his home state has always been complicated. The singer-songwriter left Oklahoma and traveled the nation, composing some of the best-known songs of his time and ours.

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Related Topix: Folk, Oklahoma, Norman, OK

Fri May 24, 2013

Aquarius Papers

A Happy 2013 72nd Birthday to Bob Dylan, America's Third Poet Laureate

His work is vast, awesome, majestic, and compelling. We haven't known an American poet who embodied such electricity since Woody Guthrie, and before him, Walt Whitman.

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Related Topix: Bob Dylan, Pop/Rock, Folk, The Stone, Death-Metal

The Guelph Mercury

Travel: Woody Guthrie Center honours singer-songwriter

The woman in the wheelchair and headphones is watching pictures go by and hearing a narrator speak about a place and a moment long ago.

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Related Topix: Folk, Pampa, TX, University of Tulsa, Travel

Gadling

Could It Actually Be Tulsa Time?

You know the drill. Mid-sized city revives a long-dormant warehouse district with art galleries, a baseball park, hipster bars, food trucks, even a Spaghetti Warehouse.

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Related Topix: Folk, Oklahoma, Route 66

Silicon Alley Insider

The 6 Greatest Bob Dylan Songs Of All Time

This song off of the album "Desire" is the best-ever song written about raiding tombs.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Bob Dylan, Folk

Wed May 22, 2013

The Georgia Straight

Cam Penner and Jon Wood search for songwriting catharsis

It's also going to be slightly shocking for those familiar with Penner's earlier records, marked as they were by well-crafted story songs that drew on the former Albertan's work with the homeless and dispossessed.

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Related Topix: Folk

Tue May 21, 2013

The Orlando Sentinel

Orlando Fringe review: 'Joe's Cafe'

This musical caf is a one-man operation now, but the charm of the place hasn't been affected much by being downsized.

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Related Topix: New York, North Yorkshire County, England, World News, East Riding of Yorkshire County, England, United Kingdom, Folk, Entertainment