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Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real – Bad Run Good Tunes

Lukas Nelson and the Promise of the Real – Make a Tough Run Great! Ok so I wrote in a previous post that my running times have sucked over the last two months. Most of that can be blamed on my health worries. But over the last week or so …

Looking Back: Jimmie Spheeris – Isle of View

Ok so today on the Record Collectors Facebook Group a member asked people to dig into their collection and post an album that is unknown and/or obscure. Well, I have many vinyl albums that fit that description! And many more CDs that do also! However the album I decided to …

Stillhouse Junkies – Small Towns

Stillhouse Junkies – Small Towns Since this week’s theme is “It’s been a long time”, the first Roots Music charts I looked at this week we’re the Folk and Bluegrass Charts. Those charts along with the Folk DJ and Euro-Americana charts were where I found most of the new music …

Ballad of William Worthy – Phil Ochs

“Ballad of William Worthy” – A Glimpse at the 60s So last weekend, we went to the Antique Emporium in Burlington NJ and I browsed through some of the vinyl albums they had for sale. I ended up buying two albums. One was the album Raw Sienna from Savoy Brown. …

Jeremy Garrett – River Wild Returns Me to Bluegrass!

So I started this post Sunday, when I was on ADHD overload, watching the Phillies game, listening to Savoy Brown’s Raw Sienna and writing this post??Earlier in the afternoon, I was listening to River Wild by Jeremy Garrett, while watching the game. Jeremy Garrett is one of those Americana musicians I …

Greg Trooper – Day 9 – 30-Day Folk Challenge on his Birthday!

Today January 13,2021 would have been singer-songwriter Greg Trooper’s 64th birthday. Unfortunately for the music world he died two days after his 61st birthday in 2017. The cause of the death was pancreatic cancer. Greg Troop was a fellow New Jerseyian. He was born on January 13 in 1956 iin Neptune Township, …

Gordon Lightfoot Kicks Off My 30-Day Folk Music Challenge

Yesterday I said I had started a 30-day Folk Music Challenge early last week. Well, As a result yesterday was the sixth day of the challenge. Blue River Eric Andersen’s 1972 release.was the album of the day. In this post I’d like to start to catch up and write about the …

The Kerry Kearney Band Make a Struggling Run Better!

Yesterday was a A+ day of exercising. I started the day off with a cardio-dance routine. I added some resistance band,kettle Bell, light weights and some calisthenics.The workout was. 22 minutes long and I burned.209 calories. About a half hour later I ran.. The soundtrack was Black from the …

Steve Krase Band – Just Waitin’ – Gets A Body Moving!!

Just Waitin’ – Steve Krase Band Over the last few years one of my favorite blues harmonica players has been Steve Krase. So the other day when I saw his latest release Just Waitin’ on Spotify I knew it would be going into my music rotation. The other morning I …

Late Summer and Fall 2017 Playlist – Americana and Blues

A Six Pack Playlist of Americana/Folk and Blues and More I may never be able to catch up writing about the various albums I have been listening to over the last three to four months. So I have decided to make a few playlists that will group the tracks roughly …

Category: Americana

Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real – Bad Run Good Tunes

Looking Back: Jimmie Spheeris – Isle of View

Stillhouse Junkies – Small Towns

Ballad of William Worthy – Phil Ochs

Jeremy Garrett – River Wild Returns Me to Bluegrass!

Greg Trooper – Day 9 – 30-Day Folk Challenge on his Birthday!

Gordon Lightfoot Kicks Off My 30-Day Folk Music Challenge

The Kerry Kearney Band Make a Struggling Run Better!

Steve Krase Band – Just Waitin’ – Gets A Body Moving!!

Late Summer and Fall 2017 Playlist – Americana and Blues

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