Showing posts with label NewFrontier. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NewFrontier. Show all posts
Friday, November 22, 2013

JFK 50 Years Later: Songs Of November 22, 1963

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"This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly, than ever before. And with each...
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Thursday, January 27, 2011

"With You My Johnny Lad"

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I can well remember fifty years ago being intrigued by an anomaly that I noted in many of the folk records that I was listening to regardin...
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Thursday, November 25, 2010

Murder Most Foul - "Poor Ellen Smith"

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" Murder most foul , as in the best it is, But this most foul, strange, and unnatural." - Shakespeare, Hamlet I would guess th...
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Friday, October 8, 2010

"My Lord, What A Morning"

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There is an odd little religio-literary motif that originated in the high middle ages called "The Paradox of the Fortunate Fall....
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Thursday, May 20, 2010

Uncle Dave Macon & "Keep My Skillet Good 'N' Greasy"

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To start with , I had always thought that this song was just plain weird, and at two minutes, really just album filler on New Frontier . A...
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Friday, July 3, 2009

John Stewart + Marty Robbins + Roy Rogers + Frederic Remington + More - "Dogies Lament"

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Another cowboy song, you think. Another fluffy bit of album filler, you say (and Allan Shaw et al. in The Kingston Trio On Record did). ...
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Friday, April 24, 2009

Ewan MacColl's "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face"

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A few months back , I mentioned in one of these weekend videos posts that I didn't intend to do any really high profile songs by the Kin...
Thursday, July 31, 2008

"A Lovely Shade Of Red, But A Naughty Boy": Hoyt Axton And "Greenback Dollar"

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Hoyt made a mere $800.00 from the song. "After I got ripped off as a writer on 'Greenback Dollar', I didn't go into a blue ...