Comparative Video 101

Selected Videos Of And Commentary About Some Classic Folk, Roots, And Americana Songs

Friday, August 23, 2013

Billy Edd Wheeler's "Jackson"

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Billy Edd Wheeler has had a wonderful career that has taken him from the hardscrabble hills of the West Virginia of his birth in 1932 to ...
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Saturday, August 17, 2013

A Whimsical Woody Waltz: Guthrie &"Those Brown Eyes"

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" Woody saw the ravages of the Dust Bowl and the Depression firsthand...and he wrote tough yet lyrical stories about the men and wom...
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Friday, August 9, 2013

"Bimini Gal"

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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...
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Thursday, June 6, 2013

RFK & The Poetry Of Memory: John Stewart's "Dreamers On The Rise"

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Today, June 6th , is the 45th anniversary of the death of Robert Kennedy, shot down here in Los Angeles in the early morning hours of June 5...
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Saturday, June 1, 2013

From Sacred To Secular: "Love Comes Trickling Down"

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Songs often take strange journeys in their lives, changing sometimes in lyric and melody and meaning, often morphing into very different...
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Friday, May 24, 2013

Bob Dylan's "Mama, You've Been On My Mind"

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Bob Dylan turns 72 today, a fairly unremarkable fact, certainly not on the order of wonderment of, say, the notoriously self-abusive Keit...
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