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George Wein's Folk Festival 50 Photos: Pete Seeger, Avett Brothers, Gillian Welch, Josh Ritter, Mavis Staples and More
[Above: The Avett Brothers]Photos taken by Stephanie F. Black (unless otherwise noted) at George Wein's Folk Festival 50... read more
Found in: Blogs, 1000 Words50 Best Bob Dylan Covers of All Time
As we began to compile this list of the 50 Best Bob Dylan Covers of All Time—asking for input from Paste readers, writers and editors—someone suggested that it might be easier to compile a list of artists who haven't covered Dylan. I've listened to literally hundreds of Dylan covers over the course of the past week, trying to weigh choices like, "Who's version of 'Tomorrow Is a Long Time' is better, Nick Drake or Nickel Creek?" But I don't mean to make it sound like grueling work. My biggest take-away from this exercise is that going to Dylan for source... read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayNew, old artists harmonize at Newport's Folk Festival 50
In the 50 years since the founding of the Newport Folk Festival, it's remarkable to realize just how much the term "folk" has expanded. Back in the old days, so much as plugging in a guitar was enough to brand a folk artist as a traitor of biblical proportions.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsSeven Songs Playing in the Lobby of My Own Personal Hell
[Above: Bucky Dent. Us Red Sox fans have another name for him.]Sitting in the bleak, strobing-florescent-light-lit lobby of my own personal hell, waiting around on backbreaking IKEA furniture for eternal damnation to begin, I glance around. Posters of Paris Hilton, Richard Nixon and New York Yankees shortstop Bucky Dent line the unfinished concrete walls. There are a few TVs, too, which are looping Dancing with the Stars, Nancy Grace, the standup comedy of Kathy Griffin, all the Rob Schneider scenes from Judge Dredd, and the last 30 seconds of Game 6 of the 1986 Mets/Red Sox World Series.And to make matters... read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayPlant & Krauss, Joan Baez, more win at Americana Awards
[Above: Alison Krauss and Robert Plant]Alison Krauss & Robert Plant—the roots-music queen and the former Led Zep banshee—pulled down Album of the Year and Duo/Group of the Year honors Thursday night at the Americana Music Awards, a loose and congenial affair held at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, the so-called “mother church of country music.”... read more
Found in: Blogs, FestivusSteve Earle vouches for forthcoming Joan Baez album
Joan Baez spent some time this past winter in Nashville working on her still untitled new album, due out sometime late this summer or fall. Steve Earle is producing the project, and thinks it is coming along nicely, according to Billboard.com. Actually, correction, "It's a fuckin' great record, man," he told Billboard. “She's one of the great interpreters of songs alive on the planet. We started out with seven songs she brought to the table that she arrived at by hearing them. Some of them she'd already started performing, so we started out with songs she very much wanted to... read more
Found in: Music, NewsJoan Baez - Dark Chords on a Big Guitar
Joan Baez hasn’t written a song in 10 years, but she maintains an unerring instinct for choosing good material. Dark Chords, her first studio album in six years, mines the work of non-mainstream writers, but all should be familiar to Paste readers... read more
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