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Barna Howard – Quite a Feelin’

Exploring the Music of Singer-Songwriter, Folkie – Barna Howard and his album – Quite a Feelin’ I discovered the music of Barna Howard on the June 2015 Euro-Americana Chart , where his album Quite a Feeling held down the number eight spot. One night when I was going to …

More Treasures from The Princeton Record Exchange!

A Trip to the Princeton Record Exchange Yields Seven New Treasures! So on Wednesday night, my son Nicholas and I went bargain-hunting at the Princeton Record Exchange, armed with our Christmas Gift Cards. I had a $25.00 gift card from my birthday back in October,plus my $25.00 Christmas gift …

My Summer Folk/Americana Playlist – Check it Out!

So on the left sidebar there is a playlist of some of my favorite songs from a variety of albums, most of which were released in July August and September of 2014. There are a couple that I’ve added from earlier months basically albums that I didn’t get around to writing …

“Into the Morning” with Two Bluegrass Masters – Jim Hurst and Rob Ickes – “Going Down that Road Feeling Bad”

This afternoon I was listening to the latest release from Breaking Grass Just as Strong, after listening for a while, I went and found a video of the band seems that the band has everything I like fiddle, guitar, mandolin, banjo, and bass, wait! There’s no dobro! But I listened …

New Music from an Old Favorite – David Wilcox – blaze!

Over the last few weeks, I’ve made reference to listening to David Wilcox’s new album blaze, today I listened to it again and I think it’s time i write something about the album! For me David Wilcox has the whole package, he is an intelligent and thought songwriter, a great …

Folk from the Texas Hill Country – Possessed by Paul James – There Will Be Nights When I’m Lonely

Now maybe if I had caught this quote in No Depression back in 2010 “If I were to make a list of the 20 most important singer/songwriters of our time, Konrad Wert / Possessed by Paul James, would undoubtedly be among those at the very top.” or this one from …

Life’s Soundtrack – An afternoon with the songs of Wyatt Easterling from Goodbye Hello!!

So today I spent time listening to two artists whose albums are currently on the Folk DJ Chart for January. The first was Wyatt Easterling whose album Goodbye –Hello is #33 and the second Steep Ravine and their album Trampin’ On which sits a little higher on the chart at #20. Neither …

Thoughts about Dave Van Ronk “The Mayor of MacDougal Street”

So I want to go and see the Coen Brothers new movie: “Inside Llewyn Davis” and surprisingly my wife does, too. I really don’t think she knows that the story is based on Dave Van Ronk’s memoirs because I don’t think she’s a fan of Van Ronk’s music! Anyway, until …

A Good Run and Happy Birthday, Greg Trooper!!

So when I turned on my Runmeter app this afternoon, the first thing I saw was my last run – November 18, 2013 and I cringed! I knew it had been a long time since my last run, but I thought that the last one was closer to the end …

“Into the Morning” with the music of Mark Erelli -“Volunteer”

So tonight I was thinking, I would post a song from one of my favorite folksinger songwriters. The first one that popped into my head was John Gorka, thoughts of John were quickly replaced by thoughts of Mark Erelli. I listened to Mark’ most recent release Little Vigils the other …

Category: Americana

Barna Howard – Quite a Feelin’

More Treasures from The Princeton Record Exchange!

My Summer Folk/Americana Playlist – Check it Out!

“Into the Morning” with Two Bluegrass Masters – Jim Hurst and Rob Ickes – “Going Down that Road Feeling Bad”

New Music from an Old Favorite – David Wilcox – blaze!

Folk from the Texas Hill Country – Possessed by Paul James – There Will Be Nights When I’m Lonely

Life’s Soundtrack – An afternoon with the songs of Wyatt Easterling from Goodbye Hello!!

Thoughts about Dave Van Ronk “The Mayor of MacDougal Street”

A Good Run and Happy Birthday, Greg Trooper!!

“Into the Morning” with the music of Mark Erelli -“Volunteer”

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