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What is your favourite Sunday morning record? "I like old recordings. I love the things Joe Bussard puts out - he's preserving a lot of corners of music that are precious, mountain music, jazz, blues, music that was on 78. I dig that." Elvis Costello - MOJO Dec 2005 "This is the music of poor whites and blacks: wild-ass jazz and string-band hillbilly, surreal yodels and king snake moans, lightning-bolt blues and whorehouse romps and orgasmic gospel. It's all anti-pop, anti- sentimental: the raw sounds of the city gutter and the roadside ditch." Desperate Man Blues by Eddie Dean - Da Capo Best Music Writing 2000 "Joe has spent more than 50 years pursuing his purpose with a single- mindedness bordering on mania. And his purpose is no less than collecting and preserving the vast wealth of... Less

LILI HAYDEN

Album Notes Personnel includes: Dave Carter (vocals, guitar, banjo, mandolin, harmonium, organ); Tracy Grammer (vocals, guitar, violin, mandolin, percussion); Tim Darby (slide guitar); Bill Oskay (violin, harmonium); Nancey Ives (cello); Eric Park (accordion); Donny Wright (acoustic & electric basses). Principally recorded at Big Red Studios, Corbett, Oregon in December 2000.Digitally remastered using HDCD technology. Composer: Dave Carter .Personnel: Dave Carter (banjo); Tracy Grammer (guitar). Additional personnel: Tim Darby (resonator guitar); Nancy Ives (cello); Eric Park (accordion); Billy Oskay (harmonium); Donny Wright (acoustic bass); Lorne Entress (drums); Claire Bard (background vocals).Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer would be impressive as solo artists, but together they have... Less

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Gripping songs from small-town Canada, collected and written at truck-stops, graveyards, orchards, nursing homes, derelict barns, old railway lines, and a lover's door. "North Wind" is the raw, dramatic and tender new album from troubadour Aengus Finnan.

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Boston Blackthorne's new album, Better Late than Ever, is a lively compilation of traditional Celtic ballads, driving rebel tunes and thoughtful original music composed for the Irish genre. The disc features four-part harmonies and beautifully arranged instrumentation played by the group's 6 members on 6&12 string guitars, bouzouki, mandolin, fiddle, 4&5 string banjo, drums and bodhran. Purchase this CD to enjoy fresh versions of classic Irish tunes such as Lanagan's Ball, The Minstrel Boy and The Foggy Dew. Or explore the band's original tunes such as Back When the Craic was Grand and Gone to the Wars where the band takes on topics of war and peace, the love of music and the challenges and joys of the musical life. Be the first at your sessiun to discover these new classics and the... Less

Personnel: Christine Lavin (vocals, acoustic guitar); Robin Batteau (vocals, violin, drums, fingersnaps); Terry Cashman, Lucy Kaplanski, Dave Van Ronk (vocals); Mark Dann (acoustic guitar, bass); Frank Christian (acoustic guitar); Jeff Southworth (electric guitar); John Kruth (mandolin); Howie Wyeth (piano); Wayne Coben (acoustic bass); Alfredo Buonanno (fretless bass); Marshal Rosenberg (congas, percussion, background vocals); David Buskin (bells); Rod MacDonald, John Gorka, Eric Andersen, Martha Faibisoff, Carla Pesata, Bob Stewart, Betsy Brody, Roz Schaul, Cliff "Big Stick" Eberhardt, Lydia DeFretos, Billy Jones, Lillie Palmer, Mark Mandelbaum, David Weinstein, Joe Virga, Hillary Rollins, Marsha Solton, Susan Vosburgh, Deborah Ross, Gregory Fleeman, Ellen Yass, Michael Garin, Mona... Less

When Shawn Colvin's last album of original material, 1996's A Few Small Repairs, scored Grammys for Song and Record of the Year ("Sunny Came Home"), the singer found herself blessed with pop stardom--and the stifling curse of expectations. Colvin faced two choices: make a U-turn back to the acoustic folksiness of her late-'80s rise to prominence or brave the notoriously shifting currents of musical populism head on. She's chosen the latter tack here, but it often seems like more of a showcase for her longtime songwriting partner and producer, John Leventhal. He frames her lyrics and radiant voice in slick, spacious productions that sometimes make Colvin seem uncomfortably like a session singer on her own album. Whatever fresh emotional insights she offers can't help but seem insulated in... Less