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Various Songs of the African Coast: Cafe Music of Liberia and Ghana. - Brief Article - sound recording review Guthrie Alberts The first five songs on this album are sung over bright, swinging, "palm wine" acoustic guitar and a percussive scraper--a sound familiar ......(Continue Reading) Negro Folk Songs: Books I-IV Complete. - book review By Natalie Curtis-Burlin Dover Publications (Mineola, NY), 2001, 167 pages, ISBN 0486418804, pbk., $12.95 Natalie Curtis-Burlin (1875-1921) was an African American scholar and musician born in...(Continue Reading)As it is fading - folk songs - Brief Article James Leva took his inspiration for this song from Josh Thomas, a blind African-American banjo player and singer from Hollins, Virginia who was recorded ......(Continue Reading)Sharon Katz: a mission of peace - South African folk singer - Interview It's Sunday afternoon at Clearwater's Great Hudson River Revival, and Sharon Katz is chatting with Pete Seeger about the song "Wimoweh" as her band, ......(Continue Reading)Alex de Grassi Now and Then: Folk Songs for the 21st Century - Brief Article - Sound Recording Review 33rd Street 3317 A dept fingerstyle, steel-string acoustic guitarist de Grassi's fourteenth boundaries defying project is a solo outing featuring contemporary arrangements of American standards t...(Continue Reading)
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