January 2011
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12 Memorable Concerts from 2010
(Cross-posted. I’ve largely abandoned Imaginary Gardens for Bricolage and my folk music website, but it seems appropriate to post this here as well.)
Here is a description of twelve memorable concerts I saw in 2010. I won’t say that they’re the most memorable, because I don’t like to commit to absolutes like that, but they all stood out for some reason. I decided not to...
July 2009
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PSA
In case it’s not obvious: Until further notice, I’m directing my tumblenergy toward my other Tumblr page: Bricolage. It’s more tumbleloggesque, anyhow.
February 2009
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What would Buddha drink?
A thread for possible future consideration, spinning off of the last post: the number of “religious figures in contemporary context” songs that place Buddha in a coffeeshop (or drinking coffee at a diner). There are at least three: “Talkin’ to the Buddha” by Gandalf Murphy and the Slambovian Circus of Dreams (video here), “Where You Been” by Carrie...
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”Fisher King” by Carrie Newcomer, on “The...
January 2009
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“Away from the Lights” by Annie...
What was, what is, and the hope for what can be
Angela Page hosts the folk radio show Folk Plus on WJFF. This past weekend, her theme was “Post Inauguration: What was, what is, what can be.” She says: “This week the world watched, listened to, or at least knew about the inauguration of the 44th President of the United States. And many under a certain age, not having been touched by the history that made this so...
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Revisions: "Take All the Sky You Need"
In Ellis Paul’s introduction to “Take All the Sky You Need” during Falcon Ridge’s 2004 Songwriting Process Workshop, he says, “I wrote it in May and I’m still kind of working on it.” Sure enough, the lyrics have changed a lot. A while ago, I put some thought into the differences between that version and the version that ended up on “American...
December 2008
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It turns out that you can post music here too! ...
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"Blue Guitar" (Iain Campbell Smith)
Iain Campbell Smith is not your typical bard. He curses, plays a mean guitar, has a wicked sense of rhythm, writes songs that could be read as treatises on postcolonialism. (He was, after all, the ambassador before he became a singer-songwriter.) But it struck me recently that “Blue Guitar” has a lot of merit even in traditional terms: sounds, turns of phrase, rhythm, allusions,...
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This is an experiment.
Sometimes, I am struck by a song, poem, or prose, and I want to remember it and perhaps even share with others why I appreciate it or find it striking. I figured that it’s better to separate these ruminations from my other internet activity, and it is so easy to do that in today’s internet landscape. Thus, Tumblr, which in my brief research seems to suit my...