
Listen to Podcast #27: Betty's "Spring Takes Wing" Mix! Like what you hear?? Subscribe HERE! Bunch of Bettys Podcast #27 - Betty's "Spring Takes Wing" Mix! (RIGHT-CLICK TO DOWNLOAD ENTIRE PODCAST) Program number twenty-seven features features a wide eclectic mix of music inspired by the breath of spring...a mixture of airy vocals that exhale the beauty of both joy and pain. For what is one without the other? [...]

photos from Miles From Nowhere , who also has some videos from the evening. Next weekend Jill Barber will return to the Grad Club. If you've read b(oot)log with any regularity you will know that I am a fan and have featured her on more than one occassion in these pages. I don't know what Barber is like onstage elsewhere, but at the Grad Club, it is always like a homecoming. She is charming, chatty and engaging, telling stories and interacting with the audience. Her "smokey-folky" songs are never less that [...]

Clara strolled in the garden with the children. The sky was green over the grass, the water was golden under the bridges, other elements were blue and rose and orange, a policeman smiled, bicycles passed, a girl stepped onto the lawn to catch a bird, the whole world-Germany, China- all was quiet around Clara. The children looked at the sky: it was not forbidden. Mouth, nose, eyes were open. There was no danger. What Clara feared were the flu, the heat, the insects. Clara feared [...]
THIS WEEK'S FINDS week of Feb. 25-Mar. 3 "23" - Blonde Redhead A ravishing combination of guitar noise and melody. I'm a sucker for the combination of guitar noise and melody, particularly when the melody comes, as here, via a breathy, difficult to decipher soprano. Kazu Makino may as well be singing in Serbo-Croatian for all I can understand her; the only thing I'm picking up is that she's actually saying "two-three" rather than "twenty-three" (so, no, no tie-in to the Jim Carrey movie; just an unexplained coincidence! bwa-ha-ha!). And let me [...]

My love for the music of Canada's Jill Barber was born from a recommendation that a Womenfolk reader sent me roughly a year ago. Enamored then , I am now a full-fledged fan with many of Barber's songs embedded into my brain. I am also very happy to announce that Ms. Barber released her first full-length album, For All Time earlier this month, continuing her penchant for jaunty, old-timey folk songs served up with a quality that's missing from much of today's music. Like her [...]