Comparative Video 101
Selected Videos Of And Commentary About Some Classic Folk, Roots, And Americana Songs
Monday, December 23, 2013
For The Season #6* :"The Bitter Withy/Mary Mild"
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The picture to the left is a detail from a 14th century mural found in an abandoned Orthodox Christian monastery in Ethopia. The scene d...
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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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Monday, November 18, 2013
Gordon Lightfoot: In Celebration Of His 75th Birthday
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Gordon Lightfoot is 75 today, and that is a happy fact for any number of reasons - the first of which, of course, is that he is still wit...
Monday, October 21, 2013
Down By The Mission "San Miguel"
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One of the sidelights of the American folk revival (from roughly 1930 through about 1970) was the creation of hundreds and then thousands...
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Sunday, October 13, 2013
John Denver's "Take Me Home, Country Roads"
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The death of John Denver sixteen years ago yesterday was a jolting moment for many people of my generation, a quiet reminder that all thing...
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Friday, August 30, 2013
"Railroad Bill"
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One of the darker aspects of American culture as it has evolved to this point has been our collective penchant to make folk heroes out of...
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