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

sidetracks & detours present PASS IT ON # 66 Weekly supplement Sunday 8 9 2024

Our team of excellent volunteer writers are joined today by two or three of our invisible angels, those ghosts between the lines, who offer us spiritual, spatial and temporal context. These complement a reader´s perspective as provided in a linear narrative by the caring, sharing and often daring Peter Pearson
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JAZZ JUNCTION

Walkin’ After Midnight, a new collection of twelve previously unreleased Eva Cassidy live tracks, will be released digitally (September 6) and on physical media (November 8) via Blix Street Records. Recorded on November 2, 1995, at the King of France Tavern in Annapolis, Walkin’ After Midnight documents the much-missed vocalist alongside an unusual lineup, accompanied only by Chris Biondo on bass, Keith Grimes on electric guitar, and guest violinist Bruno Nasta, adding a fresh dynamic to the performance.
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JONI MITCHELL ARCHIVES, VOL. 4:

as well as the music in this woinderful package, Joni Mitchell shares candid conversation, Each version includes a book with never-before-seen photos and liner notes comprising a deep dive discussion between Mitchell and longtime friend Cameron Crowe. As part of their candid conversation, she shares intimate anecdotes, memories, and stories from the five-year creative run.covered by these recordings.