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WOODLAND: new album from Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings

Sometimes, staring down the apocalypse doesn’t have to result in despair—instead, it can just make you profoundly thankful for everything you’ve had and everything you have yet to lose.
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DOWN AT JAZZ JUNCTION where music evolves

Ingrid Jensen (left) has been blazing a path in the jazz world since before she even graduated from Montreal’s McGill University in 1994. While completing her undergrad studies in jazz performance, the saxophonist and composer penned songs for the debut album of her sister, trumpeter Ingrid Jensen, and the resultant Vernal Fields won a Juno Award. The sisters continue to feed off one another’s creative energy, as evidenced on the Christine Jensen Jazz Orchestra’s recent release Harbour (Nettwerk/Justin Time)
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THIRD GENERATION MUSIC LEGACY

silky and dreamy yet playfully adventurous, slightly bluesy twist
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Sound Collection # 2 WHERE EVERYBODY KNOWS YOUR NAME

Set in a fictional and eponymous bar in Boston USA, Cheers was a long running tv comedy series built around the relationships between the various regular customers and staff. The Bar boasted the logo á place where everybody knows your name´

sidetracks & detours present PASS IT ON # 67 weekly supplement Sunday 15 9 2024

come follow your art and we´ll cross some borders, from live music to recorded music, from jazz to country to folk and Americana and Spanish folk lore.
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SONG TOWN: a site for songwriters

we Since looking at a couple of our favourite songwriters yesterday, in Sidetracks & Detours, our writing team, (music-lovers all) have been constantly discussing particular songwriters, such as Townes Van Zandt,, Guy Clark, John Stewart, Nanci Griffith and Mary Chapin-Carpenter (American all). We therefore added a couple of great British song-writers ,  and the names that fell out in conversation included Gary Hall, Richard Thompson, Elvis Costello, the wonderful late John B Spencer and Julie Matthews.ti
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ALBUMS BY SINGER SONGWRITERS

The singer-songwriter genre contains dozens of artists doing wonderful work—often with little recognition in a world grown ever louder and ever more aggressive. Geoffrey Himes says in Paste On Lin
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ELLIOTT SMITH Roman Candles: Count To Thirty

In every piece of music Elliott Smith released, I hear a restlessness I’ve yet to fully pin down
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RUNNERS AND RIDERS

John Stewart had a wonderful affinity with horses, and that is reflected in the three selections he has earned on this compilation of Runners And Riders