Comparative Video 101

The origin of my Comparative Video 101 b log and all that it has led to, including my co-host spot on  KPFK radio's Roots Music And Bey...

Timing is everything , they say, especially as it concerns success in any number of fields, music and the arts perhaps being chief among the...

Before the passing of Neil Armstrong and my resulting article last week on the John Stewart song about him intervened, I had originally int...

For rather more than fifty years now , American folk fans have generally believed incorrectly that "Coplas" was the name of a song...

If there is a sort of folk Valhalla somewhere - a place where, say, Burl Ives is still taking the Rock Island Line to the Big Rock Candy Mo...

Rivers seem to play a larger part in American folk music than they do in that of just about any other country. Sure, there are some Irish...

I can pinpoint the exact moment in my past when I decided I wanted to learn to play the guitar. I was nine years old in the summer of 195...

Some really unfortunate things tend to happen when a real, three-dimensional person is transformed into an icon, the worst of which is that...

Every Kingston Trio  album was structured like one of their concert sets - a strong opener followed by a change-of-pace, heading toward a...

When I began to think of these Weekend Videos as a kind of series that I'd do regularly, I resolved that I likely wouldn't be wri...