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<title>Nick Drake</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:50:54 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A sound more gentle than the soft, almost timid singing of Nick Drake never passed human lips. Of all the melancholy balladeers of the past fifty years, none have so effectively captured the sound of the human heart in conflict with itself. Of course the saddest thing about Drake's music is that "Pink Moon" is being used to sell Volkswagens. If the first time you heard Drake was during a car commercial, then buying <I>Fruit Tree</I> straightaway is the least you can do to make amends. The collection gathers Drake's three studio albums and the posthumous disc <I>Time Has Told Me</I>. Though it's impossible to pick favorites with Drake, his debut <I>Five Leaves Left</I> may turn out to be the album you play most. It takes listeners on a gorgeous sojourn through rustic themes, wafting strings and Drake's lapidary acoustic guitar playing. The follow-up, <I>Bryter Later</I>, is a more urbane record; a purple-prose serenade from a dream corner of London. The partly cloudy skies of <I>Bryter Later</I> suddenly turned gray and glowering on the last album Drake recorded. The stark, eerie <I>Pink Moon</I> contains what is arguably some of the saddest music ever recorded, which is precisely what makes it so ineffably beautiful.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>Peter, Paul and Mary</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 6 Dec 2009 09:55:43 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Peter, Paul and Mary combined thought-provoking lyrics with artfully arranged vocal harmonies to become one of the most successful -- and certainly most enduring -- folk acts of the 1960s. Their music captured the zeitgeist of the racially and politically charged early '60s and offered it up to the public in a beautifully wrapped package.
- Linda Ryan]]></description>
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<title>Pete Seeger</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:16:48 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Pete Seeger was famous for playing old hobo country banjo folk songs and socially aware narratives of working-class folks. His union anthems and famous five-string banjo playing has influenced every hootenanny crooner from Greenwich Village to North Beach. Toward the end of the 1930s, he joined forces with the late, great Woody Guthrie and a handful of other musicians to form Almanac Singers. Their aim was to promote unions and come down hard on fascism. In the late 1940s, Seeger formed the Weavers, a folk group who made famous such hits as "Tzena, Tzena, Tzena," Leadbelly's "Goodnight Irene," and "On Top of Old Smokey" before McCarthy-era paranoia put an unceremonious end to their bookings and recording contracts. Today, his contributions to old standards live strong in the interests of folk enthusiasts and anyone who has ever been moved by songs such as "We Shall Overcome," "If I Had a Hammer," and "Turn! Turn! Turn!" a Seeger penned ditty that became a gigantic radio hit when the song was covered by West Coast Folk Rockers, the Byrds.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>The Kingston Trio</title>
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<category>Folk Revival</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:01:01 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Though you'll find them in the Folk section of the record store, the Kingston Trio's footing in the Folk community has always been shaky. Like an illegitimate child, Folk aesthetes acknowledge their relation only begrudgingly. The disapproval doesn't stem from the band's amateurism (originally, they were all self-taught) so much as their popularity. These West Coast performers brought the genre an audience far larger than anyone imagined possible. In the process, they made the recording industry more amenable to the prospect of signing and promoting other rising Folk stars like Pete Seeger, Peter, Paul and Mary, and Bob Dylan. In contrast to the first person confessionals which have characterized folk in recent decades, the Trio always preferred to perform traditional songs rooted in history. They are bards in the true sense of the word, passing down the oral heritage of our collective past.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Brooke Fraser</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 8 Sep 2009 08:37:48 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Woody Guthrie</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:08:04 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Regarding guitar playing, Woody Guthrie once said, "If you play more than two chords, you're showing off." In many ways, this quote personified the man who was responsible for timeless and classic folk standards such as "This Land is Your Land" and "The Grand Coulee Dam." The content of what came naturally to him spanned from children's sing-alongs to anti-fascist, working-class anthems, romantic love songs with wide opened landscaped backdrops, hobo-hillbilly boxcar standards, and dust bowl ballads akin to John Steinbeck's <i>Grapes of Wrath</i>-- Guthrie grew up around and experienced similar circumstances first hand. His soulful, nasal twang crooning was imitated by almost everyone who has ever picked up an acoustic guitar or attended a coffeehouse hootenanny. Guthrie was undoubtedly the most celebrated and influential folk Singer-Songwriter of the twentieth century.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Doc Watson</title>
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<category>Old-Time/Appalachian</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:55:02 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Blind almost since his birth in Deep Gap, N.C. in 1923, Doc Watson is an enormously influential acoustic flat-picking guitarist, banjo player and singer. He grew up in a musical family and showed an early affinity for stringed instruments, learning many Appalachian fiddle songs and adapting them for guitar. By the time of the folk music boom of the '60s, Watson had been making a living as a musician for ten years, playing Honky-Tonk, Rockabilly and pop in nearby roadhouses. He reverted back to acoustic guitar once he was "discovered," and his clean, propulsive picking style and seemingly endless supply of traditional songs have influenced generations of folk, Bluegrass and country musicians ever since.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Burl Ives</title>
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<category>Traditional Folk</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:08:53 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The original "King of All Media," (sorry, Howard Stern) Burl Ives brought his lovable Santa personality to radio, the silver screen, Broadway and of course, folk music. Best known for children's classics like "Goober Peas" and "On Top of Old Smoky," Burl Ives brought folk music to the pop charts while also fighting to keep historical folk a permanent part of American culture.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Ramblin' Jack Elliott</title>
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<category>Traditional Folk</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:39:19 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Ramblin' Jack Elliott borrowed from Woody Guthrie's folk stylings long before Bob Dylan did. Elliott is one of the most longstanding artists in the folk realm. He was first inspired to pick up a guitar and teach himself to play when he ran away from home at the age of fifteen to join a traveling carnival. He stumbled upon a singing rodeo clown and soon realized that he wanted to play guitar and sing. He befriended the inspirational Guthrie and even traveled with him. Elliott's folk style is different from Guthrie's in that much like his regular discourse, the narratives of Elliott's songs branch out into patchwork quilts of stories and rich accounts of hoboing as well as witty working-class yarns. His nickname was given to him by the mother of fellow folkie Odetta, who after meeting him for the first time remarked, "That Jack Elliott, he sure can ramble.Â
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Mike Seeger</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 09:33:53 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The third of a musically gifted set of siblings including sister Peggy Seeger and half brother Pete, Mike Seeger established himself in his own right as a prolific performer and a valuable archivist of traditional American music forms. From 1958 to 1979 Seeger directed the New Lost City Ramblers, a performance collective devoted to the musical artifacts of the traditional American South. In the eyes of many, however, Seeger is at his best in solo performances when his wit resounds and his compassion inspires.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>Utah Phillips</title>
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<category>Political Folk &amp; Protest Songs</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 9 Oct 2009 10:32:31 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Card-carrying Wobbly and raconteur of the rural Southwest, Utah Phillips is revered for his unadorned but intensely lyrical balladry and his ability to engage audiences with the wisdom and down-home bonhomie of an old-timey cracker-barrel philosopher. More recently, Phillips has earned the adulation of angst-folky Ani Difranco. The result -- 1996's <i>the past doesn't go anywhere</i> -- is unlike anything Phillips has done before: a spoken word sculpture (with Laurie Anderson's fingerprints all over it) set against a backdrop of Funk/rap/country rhythms.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>Dan Reeder</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 12:07:10 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[One of the most refreshing folk neo traditionalists to emerge in the new millennium, Louisiana-born Dan Reeder seemed to appear from nowhere when his 2003 debut was issued on John Prine's Oh Boy label. The ultimate DIY aesthetics went into the set of short, funny tunes; it was not only home recorded, but Reeder also built and played all the instruments and sang harmony with himself. The self-titled debut did well with critics and slowly caught on for its touching humor and homespun folk blues. After some limited international touring, Reeder issued his sophomore record, <i>Sweetheart</i>, in 2006. He currently lives in Germany and works as a painter.
- Nate Cavalieri]]></description>
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<title>John Renbourn</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:55:38 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[In the '60s, fingerpicking was all the rage among folkie guitarists; the playing style renders notes clean and distinct -- just the opposite of the strum-it-to-death approach usually taken by neophyte guitarists. It's the difference between an eyedropper and a garden hose, musically rendered. The two men primarily responsible for the rise of fingerpicking in the U.K. were John Renbourn and Bert Jansch. The two were actually roommates for a brief time in the mid-1960s, putting together in their spare time a collection of original material interspersed with subdued traditional ballads and anglicized blues. Still influential today, the recordings were released in 1966 as <I>Bert and John</I>. The album inaugurated one of the most important collaborations in modern folk, as the two then went on to form Pentangle. An important British Folk band astounding in its range of reference, Pentangle brought together Celtic Folk, blues, antique ballads, modern jazz and Continental guitar styles. Since his days with Pentangle, Renbourn has remained a tireless explorer of new directions in guitar-based folk, incorporating new influences from Indian music to medieval carols.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>Shel Silverstein</title>
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<category>Comedy</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:24:33 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[You've got to respect Silverstein for his incredible diversity: the man was equally adept at cranking out ribald erotica for <I>Playboy</I> as he was at creating classic children's literature. His career as a gravel-voiced folk singer never earned him quite as much acclaim, but you'd be surprised just how many folks owe him a huge debt. Johnny Cash, Marianne Faithfull and Diamanda Galas have all paid him homage by covering his eloquent story-songs.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>Hazel Dickens</title>
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<category>Bluegrass</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 12:07:08 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Hazel Dickens comes across like the direct descendent of Mother Maybelle Carter with her big tenor and the crushing lonesomeness pouring out of her voice. She sounds like she <i>is</i> Appalachia. The modern glut of female-fronted Bluegrass acts have this pioneering woman to thank. Dickens and collaborator Alice Gerrard recorded the first female-produced Bluegrass records back in the Folk Revival boom of the 1960s. The pair was instrumental in bringing what was once considered "hick" music to colleges and coffeehouses, thereby exposing an entire generation to this timeless and dynamic music. Dickens' solo recordings are equally invaluable, filled with her dry, plaintive singing and ace musical backing. She relies heavily on the old styles and pays reverent homage to her influences from the high lonesome tradition with support from banjos, mandolins and fiddles.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Innisfree</title>
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<category>Traditional Folk</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:04:11 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Liz Carroll</title>
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<category>Celtic Folk</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 09:33:54 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[There so much hot fiddlin' about going on that these Celtic instrumentals could give Uncle Ernie from <i>Tommy</i> convulsive seizures. Liz Carroll is an American treasure who uses her violin to explore many different facets of Irish music.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>The Brothers Four</title>
<link>http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.1573&amp;rws=%2Ffolk%2Ftraditional-folk%2Fartist-chart.rss</link>
<category>Folk Revival</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:28:40 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Bonnie Dobson</title>
<link>http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.11856&amp;rws=%2Ffolk%2Ftraditional-folk%2Fartist-chart.rss</link>
<category>Celtic Folk</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 2 Jul 2009 13:50:36 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Dobson had a crystal-clear singing voice that was beautiful in English or Gaelic. Her gentle folk songs, such as "Morning Dew," are known to modern audiences through covers by the Allman Brothers, the Grateful Dead, and more fittingly, the Chieftains.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Frankie Lane</title>
<link>http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.13559&amp;rws=%2Ffolk%2Ftraditional-folk%2Fartist-chart.rss</link>
<category>Celtic Folk</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:47:10 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Exquisite slides and twangs reverberate in Frankie Lane's dobro guitar playing. Sparse yet rich in textures, his instrumental compositions would make the perfect soundtrack music for <I>Local Hero</I> Part II.
- Robert Leaver]]></description>
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<title>Rainbow Arabia</title>
<link>http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.22585740&amp;rws=%2Ffolk%2Ftraditional-folk%2Fartist-chart.rss</link>
<category>Experimental Pop</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 11:04:49 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>2nd South Carolina String Band</title>
<link>http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.5015515&amp;rws=%2Ffolk%2Ftraditional-folk%2Fartist-chart.rss</link>
<category>Traditional Folk</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:25:52 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>The Limeliters</title>
<link>http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.3970&amp;rws=%2Ffolk%2Ftraditional-folk%2Fartist-chart.rss</link>
<category>Folk Revival</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 09:41:50 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The Limeliters were a Hollywood-based folk trio who managed to successfully integrate smooth harmonies, light political satire and general humor into a national spotlight. Helped by the tenor of Glenn Yarbrough and the solid baritone of Alex Hassilev, the group had its biggest hit with "A Dollar Down" (1961). At a time when popular music was beginning to gain an edge, the music of the Limeliters portrayed a simpler, jollier America where educated wisecracks and sing-alongs could suffice as entertainment. The band split apart in 1963 as Yarbrough went on to contribute to the melodramatic oceanside ponderings of Rod McKuen while other founding member Lou Gottlieb went on to form Morning Star Ranch, one of the original San Francisco communes.
- Jon Pruett]]></description>
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<title>Greymachine</title>
<link>http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.29226532&amp;rws=%2Ffolk%2Ftraditional-folk%2Fartist-chart.rss</link>
<category>Traditional Folk</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 5 Aug 2009 11:19:51 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Chad Mitchell</title>
<link>http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.3353&amp;rws=%2Ffolk%2Ftraditional-folk%2Fartist-chart.rss</link>
<category>Folk Revival</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:23:54 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Stan Rogers</title>
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<category>Celtic Folk</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:23:49 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Glenn Yarbrough</title>
<link>http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.2442&amp;rws=%2Ffolk%2Ftraditional-folk%2Fartist-chart.rss</link>
<category>Traditional Folk</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:57:32 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Legendary Shack Shakers</title>
<link>http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.16316590&amp;rws=%2Ffolk%2Ftraditional-folk%2Fartist-chart.rss</link>
<category>Traditional Folk</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 08:13:57 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>A. A. Bondy</title>
<link>http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.15827601&amp;rws=%2Ffolk%2Ftraditional-folk%2Fartist-chart.rss</link>
<category>Americana</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:26:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Carolina Chocolate Drops</title>
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<category>Traditional Folk</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:55:04 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Charlie Poole</title>
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<category>Old-Time/Appalachian</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 2 Sep 2009 12:06:35 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Charlie Poole isn't quite as much of a folk icon as the Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers, yet his influence on old time, bluegrass, country & western and the folk revival is no less considerable. Charlie Poole & the North Carolina Ramblers were one of the most famous string bands in the 1920s, recording nearly 70 sides for Columbia. Unlike the Skillet Lickers and other popular string bands of the day, the Ramblers didn't play the "rowdy hillbilly" card. Inspired in part by ragtime, they employed a finesse and complexity that would go on to influence Bill Monroe and just about every other bluegrass pioneer. John Cohen of the New Lost City Ramblers once tagged the group's sound "mountain chamber music." Poole in particular was a stunning musician, inventing a distinctive three-fingered approach to the banjo. He was also a stunning drinker. As with so many race and hillbilly artists, his popularity began to wane as the Great Depression sunk its teeth into the country. This eventually sent Poole on a marathon bender -- we're talking weeks -- in 1931. Not surprisingly, it killed the man. Although the Ramblers soldiered on, they failed to achieve much commercial success without Poole.]]></description>
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<title>David Holt</title>
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<category>String Bands</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:08:37 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Singer/multi-instrumentalist/storyteller/radio and television host Holt is also an expert stringed instrument player. He combines his love of folk music and storytelling into a singular, down-home style. He is often accompanied on his numerous albums by expert instrumentalists such as Doc Watson and Chet Atkins.]]></description>
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<title>The String Dusters</title>
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<category>Traditional Folk</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 10:35:03 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Dock Boggs</title>
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<category>Old-Time/Appalachian</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 2 Sep 2009 12:06:35 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Jolly Rogues</title>
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<category>Traditional Folk</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:25:55 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Karen Dalton</title>
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<category>Folk Revival</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 09:56:13 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The elusive Karen Dalton was an underground favorite of Greenwich Village's teeming folk scene during the 1960s. She made only two recordings, and of those, <I>It's So Hard to Tell Who's Gonna Love You the Best</I> is an underappreciated tour de force. But the electric <i>In My Own Time</i> braided folk, rock and soul arguably better than Dylan's first detour into electric folk. Dalton's voice is wizened and husky, but rich in twang -- she sounds like a farm-bred Billie Holiday trying to sing the blues like Fred Neil. She never ventured to write her own material, choosing instead to cover songs by Jelly Roll Morton, Leadbelly, Tim Hardin, Richard Manuel, George Jones and others; but her recordings, although largely unheard in their time (mostly because music critics then demanded original recorded material from folk singers), remain some of the best from the late '60s and early '70s. Freak folk pioneers Devendra Banhart and Joanna Newsom have both admitted to nicking their inflections from Dalton's distinctive vocal style. Even Bob Dylan once remarked, "My favorite singer in the place was Karen Dalton. Karen had a voice like Billie Holiday's and played the guitar like Jimmy Reed."
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>Artie Traum</title>
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<category>Folk Revival</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:09:34 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Woodstock artist Artie Traum got his start in the Greenwich Village folk scene of the early 1960s playing acoustic guitar in various folk and jug bands. He worked as a sideman for songwriters Jean Ritchie and John Sebastian, and also worked often with his older brother Happy. After moving to Woodstock, he continued his session work, was part of the influential Woodstock Mountain Review, and wrote a number of best-selling guitar instruction books. Throughout all of this activity, Traum has released a series of recordings that showcase his fine, subtly understated folk and New Age Acoustic guitar prowess. His smart and sensitive accompaniment has also kept him busy producing and backing other folk artists.
- Tom Heyman]]></description>
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<title>Bill Staines</title>
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<category>New Folk</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:02:39 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Bill Staines is an influential veteran folkie from Lexington, Mass., who often sings about living easy in the outdoors. On any given Staines song, you'll find themes of rocky mountains, rushing rivers and wide open spaces of the American west. His gentle, soulful voice is as smooth as buttermilk and comforting on the ears, like wrapping yourself up in an old familiar quilt knitted by your grandmother. Many of his songs have been covered by Fairport Convention, as well as Nanci Griffith and Jerry Jeff Walker, to name a few.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Rooftop Singers</title>
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<category>Folk Revival</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:28:40 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Alan Lomax</title>
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<category>Field Recordings</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:04:21 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Revered by all music-loving peoples as the Patron Saint of Folk Preservation, Alan Lomax wandered around early America's prison camps, honky-tonks and bordellos with recording equipment in an ongoing mission to document the deep-rooted music of the Southland's everyday layman. What he recorded back then was simply called music. Today we have come to know the styles of these recordings as acoustic blues, Delta blues, Appalachian folk and (perhaps most famous) the field hollers that are simply regarded today as "field recordings." Lomax discovered Leadbelly and Mississippi Fred McDowell. He was also the first to ever record Muddy Waters and Woody Guthrie.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>DeYarmond Edison</title>
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<category>Traditional Folk</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 10:36:30 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Roy Harris</title>
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<category>British Folk</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 2 Dec 2009 11:07:35 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Carlitos Sermeño</title>
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<category>Traditional Folk</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 12:57:51 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>AC</title>
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<category>Traditional Folk</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 13:00:18 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Hesperus</title>
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<category>Chamber Group</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:38:59 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Instrumental ensemble use period instruments (cittern, viola da gamba, lute) to unearth centuries old songs from ancient Celtic and American Colonial music. They display an uncommon ability to produce music which is thoroughly studied, but still vibrant and accessible.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>The Holy Modal Rounders</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 3 Sep 2009 10:32:55 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Originally named Total Quintessence Stomach Pumpers, the Holy Modal Rounders emerged from the Greenwich Village folk scene that produced such "mainstream" folkies like Bob Dylan, Tim Hardin and John Sebastian. An unlikely combination of 1920s traditional music and then nascent psychedelia, the Rounders served up whimsical amphetamine-injected folk. While they also contributed music to the Fugs and once had playwright Sam Shepard as a drummer, their high point of success came when they were featured on the <I>Easy Rider</I> soundtrack. Never completely palatable to the laid-back folk climate of the late '60s and early '70s, they finally folded in 1977.
- Jon Pruett]]></description>
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<title>Walt Michael</title>
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<category>Traditional Folk</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:25:15 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Walt Michael is the preeminent player of the hammered dulcimer, an instrument of rich tonal complexity, in contemporary folk music. Michael uses the dulcimer to produce evocative, folkloric songs with classical touches.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>Valya Balkanska</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:14:27 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Steppin' In It</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:25:19 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Rosalie Sorrels</title>
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<category>Traditional Folk</category>
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