Zeca Afonso e Madredeus - Maio Maduro Maio

Rhiannon Giddens: Up Above My Head

Annotations and transcribed highlights: http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/06/16/neil-gaiman-how-stories-last

Recorded at the Long Now Foundation (http://longnow.org/) on June 9, 2015. 

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Neil Gaiman on how stories last

Our third EP: Some Kind of Purpose
Available on itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/nl/album/some-kind-of-purpose-ep/id1093793278
Spotify and Google Play

All songs written by Jack and the Weatherman
(c) Jack and the Weatherman

Jack and the Weatherman - Brother

from 'Just Around the Bend: Survival and Revival in Southern Banjo Styles - Mike Seeger's Last Documentary', available September 20th, 2019 via Smithsonian Folkways Recordings: orcd.co/justaroundthebend

Mike Seeger, along with his wife Alexia Smith and filmmaker Yasha Aginsky, trekked through the Appalachian Mountains in 2009 to produce this extraordinary glimpse of the vigor and diversity of the region’s old-time banjo artistry. When Seeger passed away later that same year, the project took on the added importance of paying tribute to this renowned musician, folklorist, and documentarian of the people. Just Around the Bend: Survival and Revival in Southern Banjo Sounds captures many banjo lineages, styles, and techniques—performed by 19 virtuosic banjo players—in a package of two CDs compiled by Bob Carlin and a DVD by Aginsky. 110 minutes of music in 2 CDs; 80-page book with extensive notes, 110 minute DVD.

Just Around the Bend: Surivival and Revival in Southern Banjo Styles

Rhiannon Giddens - Georgia Buck

La Bella (J. Cartonnet) / La Corneille (J. Blanchard)

Poem text and vital context: https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/08/14/wendell-berry-questionnaire-amanda-palmer/

POEM TEXT / CONTEXT

Amanda Palmer reads "Questionnaire" by Wendell Berry

Tobin Sprout 
New album 'Empty Horses' 
Out 18th September

Pre-order link: https://fire-records.lnk.to/TSEmptyHorses

▪ Limited-edition CD artbook and vinyl LP.  
▪ Available with extremely limited edition of hand numbered prints. 
▪ A true collector’s piece, the CD artbook is beautifully packaged with 24 pages of paintings and lyrics from Tobin.

Artist, illustrator, writer and lo-fi innovator, Tobin Sprout was the super-productive partner of Robert Pollard in the legendary Guided By Voices. The gifted songwriter returns with a pensive, expansive part autobiographical new album ‘Empty Horses’. 

The album is a meticulously observed study of America and Americana (not the music, but the state of mind). An alternative American Songbook, if you will, a collection of laments to simpler times and the struggle for what’s right, peppered with an examination of faith and the search for a sense of justice.  
And, as it unravels these gritty anecdotes span the generations from the dividing and the American Civil War through to today’s confusing times. 

Tobin: “It was never intended to be a concept album, it just sort of rose out of a lot of recording we were doing. ‘On Golden Rivers’ is the focal point. I always loved American history. My grandfather was always reading about the Civil War and when I was around 10, or so, he took my brother and me to Gettysburg and Shiloh. It had a real impact on me; realizing what these men must have gone through, maybe that comes out in the songs.”   

He’s part Townes Van Zandt, part John Prine, part Robbie Robertson at his retrospective best; his heart beats super-slow on his sleeve – he’s in the cabin at Big Pink, a raconteur on a mission to reminisce; telling stories as only he can. 

Close up and personal, ‘Empty Horses’ is a poignant carefully etched experience, a rolling journey in modern times, nodding back to tradition, a personal snapshot filled with honesty.

Tobin Sprout - On Golden Rivers

Music For Quiet Moments 2 - GentleScape

Music For Quiet Moments 2 - GentleScape (Barcelona 24 Jul 2009)

Freedom, Fraternity, and Facial Surgery. Sandi Toksvig hosts with panellists Jeremy Hardy, Susan Calman, Miles Jupp and Samira Ahmed in the week that Scotland worried it might lose a pound, there were considerably more Johnsons in politics, and plastic surgery looked increasingly plastic but worryingly unsurgical.

Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4 
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The News Quiz - BBC Radio 4 - 26 April 2013

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