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They've Got the Neutron Bomb: Bob Dylan, John Coltrane, Leonard Cohen and Harry Smith as the Four Horsemen

In their new book Apocalypse Jukebox: The End of the World in American Popular Music, David Janssen and Edward Whitelock, two English profs at tiny Gordon College in Barnesville, Ga., document...  read more

Beck, Beth Orton, Others Pay Tribute To Harry Smith

Shout! Factory has announced the upcoming release of a four-disc CD/DVD box set tribute to Harry Smith, the legendary archivist and Grammy award-winning music historian. The Harry Smith Project: Anthology Of American Folk Music Revisited will be released on October 24th, 2006. Featuring performances culled from a series of Smith tribute concerts staged between 1999 and 2001, the roster of featured artists alone indicates the sheer expansiveness of Smith's influence, with performances from Beck, Steve Earle, Sonic Youth, Nick Cave, Wilco, Beth Orton, and more. Compiled by legendary music documentary producer Hal Wilner, the homage contains two CDs featuring...  read more