Comparative Video 101

Comparative Video 101 appeared 30 times during 2011, significantly less frequently than the 46 and 47 times of the two previous years. Stil...

The second week of May marks the third anniversary of my first modest post on "Tom Dooley," published on Kingston Crossroads in...

In 2010 , Comparative Video 101 has appeared 46 times, one fewer than in 2009. We had a larger number of special posts this year - tributes...

Not exactly a retrospective, this - but one of the joys of doing this blog (whether readers number in the single digits, as they sometimes ...

Talk about getting not nearly enough respect for a career of splendid achievement. Carl Sandburg (left, with Jean Ritchie), regarded during...

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). ...

"The Colorado Trail" is one of those folk songs in the American tradition that appears as a genuine surprise, like maybe "...

The previous 39 posts in this series have more or less adhered to the same format of presenting different interpretations of songs traditi...

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...

I'm not sure that Woody Guthrie ever wrote a piece more direct and powerful than "Plane Wreck Over Los Gatos," more commonly ...