The Albums That Shaped Me, August 2018

Over at Fervor Coulee Twitter  I am spending August exploring my music roots with Thirty-Two Albums That Shaped Me/Thirty-One Days Inspired by a summer of sorting (not that you would notice) and tidying (again, obvious only if you knew what it looked like before) I am going to try to explain my music journey in…

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The Final Christmas-themed post of 2012

Thanks, faithful readers, for sticking with me through the 12 Roots Songs of Christmas series. I hope you found discussion of interests and links that took you to places you didn’t expect. It is in that spirit that I share a few more links with you. As you know, Rachel Sweet fans don’t come much…

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The12 Roots Songs of Christmas- #4

Tonight’s Roots Song of Christmas takes us to Texas; for me to have gone this long without some mention of  Texas singer-songwriters is a feat. Songbird Kimmie Rhodes has been recording rich, original Americana for a couple decades, and during that time, the Austin-based songwriter has used her impressive mastery of words and melody to…

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Over at No Depression, Albums you know all the words to…

Just posted my contribution to Gillian Turnbull’s blog entry: http://www.nodepression.com/forum/topics/name-five-albums-that-you-can-sing-all-the-lyrics-to A nice little thread has been generated and I could/should have added Joan Jett’s I Love Rock n Roll album. The image to the left is a big hint to the first album on my list. Likely somewhat appropriate that the picture I just posted is…

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Walkin’ Talkin’ Dancin’ Singin’- July 19 & August 2, 2010

Two weeks in one this time out, with lots of time for listening and reflecting. Our plans changed and instead of heading up to Stony for a day of Blueberry, we headed to the mountains and the Canmore Folk Music Festival. I’ll write about that later; a great time was had. Rachel Sweet- Fool Around…

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