ENGLISH FOLK EXPO (EFE) ANNOUNCE

This year, moving into Manchester's Northern Quarter, English Folk Expo expands it's artists' programme, makes it easier for industry to attend as delegates with direct registration through it's website here, broadens it's partnership showcase programme and provides artists with more reasons to join us for the whole weekend through collaboration with Un-Convention which will provide daytime career development training and networking for artists. Meanwhile EFE have announced the first wave of artists performing at English Folk Expo and Manchester Folk Festival.

High Quality Fragments on Dylan´s seventeenth bootleg.

have never been able to afford a live show, as: the investment required with no guarantee of which Dylan might turn up, and what interpretation of his own work he might choose to deliver was a risk I wouldn´t take even in the days before these a-changing times in which we are urged to gamble responsibly.

JAZZ FOUND NOT GUILTY

A jazz renaissance has blossomed because many of the genre’s most gifted artists have rejected both the neo-liberal hyper-traditionalists and Bolshevik hyper-experimentalists. This has freed them to embrace both melody and dissonance, both history and innovation, both great chops and tremendous feeling. Call them the jazz progressives, seeking to build coalitions rather than divide, more eager to improve the average citizen’s standard of listening than to maintain musicological purity.
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SMOKEY BLUE´S AWAY

Still, though, I can hear in my head a lyrical line that accompanies the New World Symphony Opus 9 music  but the voice I hear is not mine (its in tune) and nor is it the voice of Colin Lever, my Lendanear song-writing partner, so I´m pretty damned certain we didn´t write it. Who did, though?
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LINDA RONSTADT and the country rock scene

Tumbling Dice is my favourite track by The Rolling Stones and the decision to cover that 1972 hit was a stroke of genius for Ronstadt. Again, a woman shaking up the status quo with a groovy, provocative song was ground-breaking and became a tent pole of her catalogue.

PAYING TRIBUTE WHILE RECEIVING

I’d tell him, okay, Wayne, “you're the bird.” So he'd go out in the studio, put his horn in his mouth, and the first lick that came out of him was so like a bird. It was amazing. Then his hand was in the air waving for “one more take,” and I said, “no way. I'll punch you in, but I won't start over.” So I punched him in and I left the first lick that he played on the record. It was magnificent. He was just kind of unconscious when he played it, but it was so bird-like and so unusual. He was a beautiful musician. He will be sorely missed.
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BRAY-KING NEWS OF JENNY´S NEXT ALBUM

I enjoy watching all kinds of awards and have learned so much about life, music and creativity from meeting some of the great performers, their stories and lives can be very sad but also inspiring.  I think the awards encourage me to be an individual, true to myself and my art. My own ambition is to be there for my family while continuing to write, perform and share music to the very best of my ability. 

JIM STEINMAN: a proper ´popera´ star

Steinman had an unerring ability to successfully cannibalise his own failures. The solitary album by Pandora’s Box didn’t even warrant a US release, which enabled him to subsequently uproot its single, It’s All Coming Back to Me Now, and present it to Céline Dion, who turned it into a multi-platinum 1996 single.

TARASCA

it took us through hundreds of thousands of years from cold caves to central heating, from agriculture to industry to fishing to society and civilisation.

THAT´S WHAT I´D CALL SIXTIES MUSIC

Tina Benitez Eves, writing in American Songwriter, said ´Carole King was born a songwriter,´