When Roger McGuinn was performing last Friday, he mentioned his new album. It features a plethora of great legends, and he even sang a song that Pete Seeger actually sang lead on for the album! Trust me, it was amazing!! I can't wait for the album to drop... http://www.ibiblio.org/jimmy/mcguinn/Treasures.html

http://www.jenniferwarnes.com/news/index.html
"...
At long last, Jennifer has signed a record deal.
Her new album, entitled The Well, will be
released on September 3 on the Music Force
label.
..."

Wonder if this new album will include her duet with Arlo?

JAMES TALLEY AND SID SELVIDGE TO HEADLINE "ASCAP PRESENTS…UP CLOSE" AT MAKOR ON MANHATTAN’S
WEST SIDE ON AUGUST 16

Rare New York Appearance by Two Vital Southern Acoustic Artists

http://www.ascap.com/press/talley_071601.html

SCAP (The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) will present the fifth installment of "ASCAP Presents… Up Close," the new music performance series focusing on folk and roots songwriters and artists on Thursday, August 16th at 7 p.m. at Manhattan's popular new West Side venue, Makor (35 West 67th St.). Appearing at the August 16th show will be James Talley and Sid Selvidge, two of the South’s finest acoustic artists. Neither has played a New York club date in at least 20 years. Tickets can be obtained by calling Makor at 12-601-1000 or visiting the Makor website at http://www.makor.org.

JAMES TALLEY, Amazon.com's Folk Artist of the Year 2000, makes a welcome return to New York’s club scene at Makor. In the 1970s, he recorded four albums on Capitol Records which were notable for honest, uncontrived music and beautifully crafted songs. In recent years, Talley has returned to recording with two albums on his own Cimarron label, WOODY GUTHRIE and Songs of My Oklahoma Home and Nashville City Blues.

Sid Selvidge is one of Memphis, Tennessee’s best kept musical secrets. He began his recording career in 1969 with the Stax/Enterprise label and also made three albums as a member of the critically acclaimed avant-garde blues group, Mudboy & the Neutrons. Selvidge has produced albums on a variety of artists including Alex Chilton and Cybill Shepherd and his own most recent recording was the excellent folk-blues album, Twice-Told Tales (Elektra/Nonesuch). As a teenager, Sid met, befriended, and learned from such blues legends as Furry Lewis, Bukka White, Mississippi John Hurt, and Mississippi Fred McDowell and their authentic sound is evident in Selvidge’s performances.

review from http://www.BerkshireEagle.com


The Mammals find a way to reconcile the irreconcilable

August 10, 2001

By Seth Rogovoy

Folk Review

Special to The Eagle

GREAT BARRINGTON -- The dream of adding rock 'n' roll energy to traditional folk music has a long and venerable history. It has
led down many roads and gone on some major detours, along the way sparking the creation of entirely new hybrids, such as Bob
Dylan's jangly, psychedelic poetry-rock and Fairport Convention's English folk-rock.

In their captivating show at Club Helsinki on Wednesday night, the Mammals nodded to both of these hybrids -- now longstanding
traditions of their own. But they also turned the clock back to the beginning of the folk-rock experiment, and they may just have
stumbled upon a new, visionary way of combining the two seemingly irreconcilable traditions.

*

The four individuals who make up the Mammals bring a host of musical knowledge, repertoire, influences, talent and heritage to the
group. Tao Rodriguez-Seeger is the grandson and longtime performing sidekick of Pete Seeger. Rodriguez-Seeger has absorbed
plenty from his grandfather, and at moments the resemblance is uncanny. But he also brings a host of other influences to the table, most
notably his Latino background and his acoustic-guitar playing, which subtly but effectively juices the group's string-band music without
getting in the way of the melodies.

Ruth Ungar is the daughter of well-known folk musicians and composers Jay Ungar and Lyn Hardy. She brings a confident presence
and wit to the stage, a powerful, haunting voice, and an ever-growing selection of original songs and instrumentals. She is also a
multiple-instrumental threat, juggling fiddle, banjo, guitar, bass, and acoustic and electric ukulele with equal aplomb.

Violinist Alicia Jo Rabins is an encyclopedia of fiddle tunes and styles, ranging from Appalachia to Ireland to Eastern Europe. She is an
accomplished soloist and accompanist, and understands the difference between the two roles -- not something to be taken for granted.

Michael Merenda seemingly combines the talents of all the above, and in addition, he brings to the plate a Dylanesque-by-way-of-Dan
Bern singer-songwriting approach that adds grit, wit and variety to one of the most versatile ensembles around.

But the whole, as they say, is more than the sum of the parts, and the magic of the Mammals is the way in which all these disparate
elements and personalities blend and interact with no threat of homogenization.

*

On Wednesday night you could hear Pete Seeger's inflections in his grandson's rendition of "Walking Down Death Row," which
featured a gorgeous interlude by Rabins and Ungar on violins. Ungar's ballad singing on her own "Four Blue Walls" and on other tunes,
including John Prine's "Unwed Fathers" and a haunting a capella rendition of the traditional "Railroad Boy" showed hints of blues and
jazz. And her "Jailbird Song," a protest number about paying bills, was a bit of acoustic mountain rock that might have been what Elvis
Presley sounded before Sam Philips slickened him up in the studio.

Merenda started off his "Cummington Waltz" with a light, airy melody on banjo before Rabins added a countermelody on top. The
musicians in essence danced with each other, building up to a dramatic frenzy before coming to rest. Rodriguez-Seeger answered
Merenda's classical-flavored piece with some "original banjo cacophony" of his own, a piece called "Rage Against the Ice Machine"
that was Irish-rock disguised as string-band music.

Rabins' "Baker's Waltz" had hints of Vivaldi in it and had several couples in the club dancing, and her rendition of "Di Grine Kuzine"
poignantly evoked the immigrant experience.

*

The band was supplemented by some musician friends on bass and drums for a few numbers, including Merenda's folk-rock march,
"Beggar's Cup," which Ungar laced with Pete Townshend-like notes on electric ukulele.

"The Fisher Lid" (Song of the Fisherman)
Words and music by Aliza Greenblatt.

The song was popular in the 1930s in Europe and the United States. Greenblatt was called the only Jewish woman troubador, travelling throughout the country giving recitals, a lot like her son-in-law, Woody Guthrie, and her grandson, Arlo.

A fisherman goes out to sea and hopes to catch fish. The waves murmur softly; the sea is driven. Maybe it is like me, also in love. I walk along the shore and spin my dream. Perhaps I will find my lover. The fisherman returns sadly; he didn't catch any fish. I become fearful that my dream is lost.

http://www.franmusic.com/audio.html
(scroll down page for the audio clip)

The Tom Paxton concert at the Kennedy Center can now be found in the archives link below.
In 7 days you will need to use the search feature for the Aug 30 concert:

http://kennedy-center.org/programs/millennium/archive.html

Today's performance: For nearly 40 years, singer/songwriter Tom Paxton has been an integral part of the songwriting and folk music community around the globe.

http://kennedy-center.org/programs/millennium/

Tom Paxton is performing a free noon-time concert at the Capitol today (East side) and at the Kennedy Center at 6 PM.

The Kennedy Center concert will be broadcast live. Check the link above.

PS... Last minute replacement for Tom Paxton at the Capitol concert by The Kennedys. It was great to see Pete and Maura again.
Tom Paxton will still be doing the concert at the Kennedy Center at 6 PM

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Here it is:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005NNOX/qid=1001014475/sr=2- 1/ref=sr_2_3_1/107-3188531-6272569

from previous post:

"...
At long last, Jennifer has signed a record deal.
Her new album, entitled The Well, will be
released on September 3 on the Music Force
label.
..."

Wonder if this new album will include her duet with Arlo?
(see above)

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A Judy Collins Special
Wednesday, October
17 at 8:00pm

Folk music legend Judy Collins comes to WETA in a two hour concert performance recorded at Wolftrap. You'll be transported by songs and stories from past and present.

This show will air on WETA in the DC area.

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another version of Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land" and "Pastures of Plenty":

LILA DOWNS' VOICE LURES
LISTENERS

"WHEN THE GRAMMYS roll around next year, we're fully
expecting Mexican American artist Lila Downs to take the prize for
the best world music album, for her spellbinding Narada World set
called "Border (La Linea)."
...
She came to appreciate her indigenous roots through studies of music
and anthropology at the University of Minnesota.

Now she dresses in traditional garb and performs mostly in Spanish,
on the "Border" album concentrating on songs about the immigrant
experience that are poignant, sometimes funny but never preachy.

(A rare Anglo exception is her unique blending of Woody Guthrie's
"Pastures of Plenty" and "This Land Is Your Land," both songs about
the immigrant experience. Yet, even the latter is given a zesty mambo
lift.)
..."

http://dailynews.philly.com/content/daily_news/2001/10/31/features/PBAR31F.htm

(see previous post)
Saturday, November 10, 8pm
A distinct fusion of Mexican Folk Music and American Jazz
Lila Downs
vocalist
http://www.gwu.edu/~lisner/

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Lila Downs in Boston Nov 9:
http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/hotb11012001.htm

If you go and find Kate Rusby's album "Sleepless" and listen to the song named "The Wild Goose", you will find a familar refrain: Ramzo versus Clamso. Kate Rusby herself is quite a good singer. She comes from Scotland. Two albums I enjoyed are "Sleepless" and "Hourglass". Very fine tradtional celtic music.

Review: John Hiatt & the Goners:
http://www.kcstar.com/item/pages/printer.pat,fyi/3acd2db0.c02,.html

...
Facing an unbreakable 11 p.m. curfew, Hiatt and his band quickly delivered three encores, including a raucous version of "Thing Called Love," which included a short verse from Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land."

As if there haven't been enough spine-tingling episodes in live music lately, he ignited the crowd with a raw, bluesy cover of "Here Comes the Sun," sending a prayer and a note of thanks upward to the late George Harrison.

Thanks for posting all these links, Janet. It's much appreciated.

You can listen here to an interview with Ed Gerhard, one of Arlo's musician friends and a great guitar player:
http://www.nhpr.org/content/fullmonty_view.php/972/