The Hero Workshop (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
Henry was kind enough to put together a fantastic film for his submission to the “My Hero Is…” series. You can see all the videos so far at the YouTube playlist. If you’d like to submit a video on your hero you can post it on YouTube yourself and let me know, or get the [...]
HarbourLiving.ca (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
Victoria: Seattle folksinger Tom Rawson is the Northwest’s very own version of Pete Seeger. Armed with longneck banjo and other weapons of mass delight, Tom is a master of warmth and wit who loves to share his musical treasures.
Idolator (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
The first single from Fever Ray, the solo project of the Knife's Karin Dreijer, has some overt Pete Seeger references , but the video is all gloom and ghosts and death and insects and candle-flickers. The slow dribble of the organ line and Dreijer's pitch-shifted vocals provide a fitting backdrop to the vidoe's plot (as it were), where two wide-eyed children glimpse the quiet chaos around...
Each Note Secure (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
... I close my eyes and listen to it at times it is. But there is a nice element of Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger in the midst of this music as well, complete with minimal production and an imagined dustbowl time period painted in the background. So imagine my surprise to find out that the voice behind The Tallest Man On Earth comes from Swedish singer Kristian Matsson. Well, so much...
Twangville (Free subscription) | 01/01/2009
... and despair. Mister Can You Spare A Dime was a hit song in 1935. Artists like Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger and Lead Belly started to sings songs of the poor and downtrodden. Two great examples of the writing in heart of the depression are Woody Guthrie’s I Ain’t Got No Home and This Land is Your Land , the latter of which was a cry that all people are created equal, that all people...
