Comparative Video 101

Folk music and drinking seem to have a natural affinity for each other, and there is no wonder in that given the really large number of tr...

My first post on Will Holt (L) appeared a bit under a year ago. It was a discussion of Holt's re-imagining of a Brazilian folk song as...

This week's song has been one of my favorite traditional tunes since I first heard Burl Ives' version of it rather more than fifty...

Director Fred Zinneman's 1952 film High Noon is on the short list of the best westerns ever made, and in fact of the best American movi...

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...

One of the delights of the 1950s-1960s popular folk explosion was the attention drawn to folk songs from around the world. This started wi...

One of the oldest and most delightful of folk subgenres is the nonsense song - tunes like "Polly Wally Doodle All The Day" and ...

I was always a bit puzzled by Dave Guard's comment in the Elizabeth Wilson interview (most of which is available at Dave Guard Intervie...