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Indigo Girls Bring Passion, Activism To Leid Center
Kaw Valley Independent (Lawrence, Kan.) By Joel Francis It is impossible for the Indigo Girls to separate their music from their activism. Their 90-minute set at the Lied Center last week not only...
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Folkways gets trampled underfoot at renovated Smithsonian
Above: Smithsonian patrons deserve a space to discover and learn more about American musicians like Big Bill Broonzy. By Joel Francis The Smithsonian National Museum of American History’s two-year,...
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Bird lives! (and so will jazz)
Above: Students at the Berklee School of Music break down the Roots’ “Water.” By Joel Francis The New York Times jazz and pop critic Ben Ratliff participated in a very enlightening Q and A with...
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Woody Guthrie – “Deportees (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)”
(Above: Arlo Guthrie pays tribute to his father as their friend Pete Seeger aids in a performance of “Deportees (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos).”) By Joel Francis The Daily Record Illegal immigration is a...
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Justin Townes Earle: His father’s son
(Above: Justin Townes Earle performs the joyous/sorrowful “Harlem River Blues” for David Letterman.) By Joel Francis The Kansas City Star While he was living in Los Angeles in the throes of...
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Review: Roger McGuinn
(Above: The voice of the Byrds, Roger McGuinn, transforms “Eight Miles High” and shows off his guitar chops with this stunning acoustic arrangement.) By Joel Francis The Kansas City Star The stage was...
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Review: Gillian Welch and David Rawlings
(Above: Gillian Welch and David Rawlings perform a devastating cover of Radiohead’s “Black Star.”) By Joel Francis The Kansas City Star The stage was adorned simply: two microphones, a pair of...
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Review: Ryan Adams
(Above: Ryan Adams improvises a song about his pet badger at the Music Hall in Kansas City, Mo., on Feb. 1, 2012.) By Joel Francis The Kansas City Star In a night that covered more than two hours and...
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Review: Los Lobos
(Above: Unplugged or electric, Los Lobos know how to move a crowd.) By Joel Francis The Kansas City Star To celebrate how far they have come as a band over the last 40 years, Los Lobos went back to...
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Middle of the Map 2015 – day four
(Above: William Elliott Whitmore looks forward to “Digging My Grave” on the outdoor stage at the 2015 Middle of the Map festival.) By Joel Francis The Kansas City Star (Note: With more than 100 bands...
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Review: Shawn Colvin and Steve Earle
(Above: Shawn Colvin, left, and Steve Earle emplore listeners to “Tell Moses.”) By Joel Francis The Daily Record With all the smiles, stories and strumming, Steve Earle and Shawn Colvin’s performance...
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Review: David Rawlings Machine
(Above: The David Rawlings Machine perform the always-poignant medley of Rawlings’ “I Hear Them All” and Woody Guthrie’s timeless “This Land is Your Land” at musical celebration of the film “Inside...
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