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Vashti Bunyan: Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind

by D.M. Edwards

[17.Oct.07] :. Some songs can pass through generations like cultural DNA, and it is possible that the conviction and simplicity of Vashti Bunyan’s will assure she is still adored in 400 years. Just don’t call her a folk-singer.

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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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