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Riffs, Rants and Rumors: Bruce's Broadsides for the New Depression
posted: March 14, 2012
The first question is, what the hell took him so long? Bruce Springsteen‘s new album, Wrecking Ball, is very much a response to the post-apocalyptic state of the American economy, but a quick glance at…
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Old Time Rock 'N' Roll
posted: November 27, 2009
Roots music isn’t synonymous with the stripped down sounds of Pete Seeger or Woody Guthrie though those two are widely credited as the fathers of American roots music. In fact, the genre’s massive legacy includes…
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AUGUST'S LETTER FROM THE EDITOR AT LARGE, JAY SWEET
posted: August 3, 2009
I’m sitting backstage at Folk Festival 50” a celebration of 50 years of music history in Newport, RI” listening to 90-year-old Pete Seeger headlining a sing-a-long with a phalanx of younger artists armed only with…
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Pete Seeger and friends at Madison Square Garden
posted: March 23, 2009
The folk legend, Pete Seeger is having a birthday party at Madison Square Garden. The fact that the environmentalist crusader and pioneer of protest music is turning a spry 90 is a big reason to…
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