Traditional death ballads aren't a dime a dozen on the modern papcharts, but they're a recognizable form among the folkways. Most deal frankly with unrequited and/or unequal love and its aftereffects, with gruesome detail and haunted characters; most go so far as to show the callousness of humankind through ghosts and body parts transformed, though history suggests that such lascivious imagery was more commonplace in the Puritan and previous worlds, where the funerial was a family affair, life lessons were taught and learned through song, pining could kill, and death in its stark bodily form was an everpresent [...]
My parents recently became acquainted with a family overseas through Ancestry.com. This is how I came to know Derek Jenkins , my alleged distant cousin, who has since become my spirit animal. He is an Arkansas native but has spent the past few years in Hamilton, Ontario, where he just picked up a weekly radio show/podcast dubbed "Brilliancy Medley." It is a broadly themed affair of vernacular music and spoken recordings, and I consider it No Words' spiritual kin. I assisted Mr. Jenkins with the website—you can take a gander here . The following tunes were culled from [...]
Ben Sollee and Daniel Martin Moore got together some months ago - with the help of Yim Yames - to record Dear Companion , a project drawing attention to the dire consequences of mountaintop removal mining. In addition to letting us stream the record, which is out Feb. 16 on Sub Pop, Ben and Daniel have been kind enough to take over posting duties for the day. Kentucky is a beautiful place. The land just rolls and rolls. And there are creeks everywhere. [...]
I'm sure you're already familiar with Mikael Kennedy's work, but by small chance you're not, go check out his website here and feel bad that you don't have all of these hanging in your apartment. Good lord do I love these photos. MP3: Jean Ritchie - Sailor, Sailor On The Sea
A couple weeks ago, I finished Singing Family of the Cumberlands by Jean Ritchie . It was a recommended book for a class I took in the fall of 2002 and I'm glad I finally decided to read it. Jean Ritchie was the youngest of thirteen children, growing up in Viper, Kentucky, in the Appalachian Mountains. Her family was well known-and well documented-for singing ballads, in the Anglo-American folk tradition. That is to say, they sang ballads that came over with English, Scottish and Irish settlers and could still be found on both sides [...]
"My father was part of a team surveying Arctic regions for the establishment of the DEW Line from Greenland, across to Ellesmere Island and Baffin Island, then down Hudson Bay to Churchill. These are photos he took along the way." Here. MP3: Jean Ritchie - Sailor, Sailor On The Sea
1961 Dick and Dee Dee, The Mountain's High. Ernie K-Doe, A Certain Girl. Roy Hamilton, You Can Have Her. The Texans, Rockin' Johnny Home. Stan Getz, I'm Late, I'm Late. Jacques Brel, Les Biches. Jean Ritchie, Barbara Allen. Patsy Cline, Have You Ever Been Lonely (Have You Ever Been Blue). Ron Carter and George Duvivier, Bass Duet. Frits Weiland, Study In Layers and Pulses. The Outlaws, Tune
heute wirds ein bisschen traurig. nicht weil ich das wäre, sondern weil dieser eintrag schon seit einiger zeit darauf wartet, geschrieben zu werden. und das nahende osterfest ist ja auch eher morbide. anlass war, dass ich einige zeit lang sehr häufig im bestatterweblog gelesen habe. ich schrieb damals schon was dazu , meine meinung hat sich ein bisschen geändert, glaube ich, der autor wird mir immer sympathischer. und da dachte ich, könnte ich auch mal auf die wunderwunderwunderbare compilation dead & gone #2 - totenlieder / songs of death hinweisen ( [...]
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Cadence Weapon - "Conditioning" (CFCF Remix)
Gaggie x Bo Deal – Loose Lips [Prod. by Young Chop]
Summer Camp - "Always"
