Fervor Coulee’s Favourite Roots Albums of 2020

I’ve been writing about roots music for 20 years, and have been assembling self-indulgent ‘favourite roots albums of the year’ lists for most of that time. While always a pleasant challenge, this year’s list was the most difficult for me to assemble. COVID-19 kept me even more tied to my remote music world this year,…

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Elizabeth Cook Plays One For Doc Watson

Elizabeth Cook is everything that is good about country music. Here, she rips through “Columbus Stockade Blues.” Doc never did it quite like this… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQU1W4psu6g&feature=youtu.be “I have seen the David, I’ve seen the Mona Lisa, too. I have heard Doc Watson play Columbus Stockade Blues.” -Guy Clark, “Dublin Blues”  

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Elizabeth Cook on Letterman

Nowadays, I don’t stay up late enough to watch David Letterman but I tripped across this clip from August while doing some research today. If everyone was as honest and real as E.C., the world would be a much better world. I miss hearing her Apron Stings show on SiriusXM. http://youtu.be/BIed4ZJZ_Z8 Thanks for visiting Fervor…

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Walkin’ Talkin’ Dancin’ Singin’- May 24, 2010

In the ten years I’ve been writing semi-professionally, I’ve received exactly one album and seven hundred, thirty-two emails from the folks at Light in the Attic. It was a hell of an album, that Karen Dalton disc released a few years back; spending time with In My Own Time introduced me to an artist I…

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