SXSW Interview: Jim Lauderdale
Jim Lauderdale, left, and Buddy Miller – preserving everything that's good about traditional country music.
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Jim Lauderdale, left, and Buddy Miller – preserving everything that's good about traditional country music.
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From a critical perch, reissues (especially of widely available material) are tricky fodder.
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Jack White has announced that his Third Man Records will release the entire catalogue of Scottish blues label Document Record on vinyl.
Read MoreThird Man Records announced this week that it will be launching its series of archival blues recordings with the release of three albums at the end of the month.
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If Highway 61 Revisited played as a garage rock record, the double album Blonde on Blonde inverted that sound, blending blues, country, rock, and folk into a wild, careening, and dense sound.
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Welcome back to our weekly rundown of notable new music projects — both new and reissue.
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During the 42nd annual Regina Folk Festival CJTR, Regina's community radio station , hosted a four hour live program from the heart of Victoria Park. The session included numerous interviews with various performers at the RFF, conducted by myself, Beth Currie (on Twitter @bedheadradio ), and Rhonda Nye (who blogs at Indie Insider ).
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Parting can be such sweet sorrow but I have to say the end of the 2011 Regina Folk Festival was more the former than the latter.
Read MoreBlues singers have been celebrating the festive season since the magisterial Bessie Smith revealed that "everyone must watch their step... everybody full of pep" in "At the Christmas Ball" in 1925.
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The Mandolin has been one of the traditional instruments in the blues almost throughout its history.
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