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Category Archives: Americana
American Café Orchestra
American Café Orchestra: Nightmare Polka (2011) About a year ago a friend gave me Ruthie Dornfeld’s record, Duets Abroad. Dornfeld, a fiddler from Seattle, crafted a solid, enjoyable, and sometimes wild record of duets with musicians from Finland, Denmark, France, … Continue reading
Posted in Americana, Denmark, Finland, Nordic, US
Tagged american café orchestra, americana, denmark, finland, morten alfred høirup, nordic, rootsworld, ruthie dornfeld, tapani varis
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Hal Cannon
Hal Cannon: Hal Cannon (2011) Hal Cannon is best known as the founding director of the annual National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada. He has been collecting songs and stories from the people of the American West for the … Continue reading
John McCutcheon
John McCutcheon – This Land: Woody Guthrie’s America (2011) July 14th, 2012 marks the 100th anniversary of Woody Guthrie’s birth. While there will undoubtedly be a number of musical tributes leading up to that day, This Land: Woody Guthrie’s America from John … Continue reading
Nikki Matheson
Nikki Matheson: Invisible Angel (2011) Nikki Matheson was born in Canada, and worked as a professional musician in New York City and France before returning recently to Vermont. By drawing on those experiences to write her own songs and adding … Continue reading
Wylie & The Wild West
Wylie & The Wild West: Raven On The Wind (2011) Wylie Gustafson comes from my part of the world. He raises cattle and horses (including a horse named “Captain Beefheart”) on ranches in Eastern Washington and Montana. While he has … Continue reading
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Tagged american west, cowboy, montana, wylie & the wild west, yodeling
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Eilen Jewell
Eilen Jewell: Butcher Holler – A Tribute to Loretta Lynn (2010) Eilen Jewell has put out four records of her own songs, and this time around she switched to covering songs by Loretta Lynn, a shift that works quite well … Continue reading