Articles tagged "folk music"

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Indie label Appleseed Recordings bears Grammy fruit

by Dan Deluca [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[11.Feb.08] :. Look at the list of marquee musicians with songs released exclusively on Appleseed Recordings over the last decade, and you might think there was a major label hiding out in West Chester,...

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Like a Boyd on a Wire

by Steve Horowitz

[2.Aug.07] :. PopMatters talks to Joe Boyd, a man at the center of the folk, rock and blues scenes of the 1960s who lived to tell the tale. "The whole notion of folk music and an appreciation of things that are more rural and more traditional and more rustic than our lives are now is the privilege of the middle class."

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Music Review

Vusi Mahlasela: Guiding Star

by Aarik Danielsen

[23.Apr.07] :. Though its 16 tracks vary in subject, style, and dynamic, each seems to be an unadulterated cry from Mahlasela's soul.

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