Tim O'Brien : Farewell Angelina [ purchase ] Former Denverite Tim O'Brien released his brilliant tribute to Bob Dylan in 1996. He wittily named it Red on Blonde (he's a redhead, get it?). Darius posted another song from this album back in 2008 ( Man Gave Names to All the Animals ). I waffled a bit on which one to pick since they're all great, but I've gone with this one because it features his sister Mollie on vocals. Really, though, if you like "newgrass" you really [...]
This is from Tim 's album When No One's Around, released in 1997.
A short post by Darius over at Star Maker Machine late last week rang a bell; I hadn't realized that Danny O'Keefe had both penned and first performed The Road , which most of us know well through its coverage on Jackson Browne's definitive album Running on Empty, but I did recognize his name from the songwriting credits for Well, Well, Well - a song often attributed to co-writer Bob Dylan alone, but first recorded by Maria Muldaur. Following the thread through the stacks, I found more than I bargained for: [...]
Jake Shears at One Step Beyond (02/04/11) Like they've done in year's past, the PR team from the New Yorker Festival is running some advance teasers about this year's lineup. I've been able to answer all but one of the "blind items" they've listed so far. Which Vietnam vet turned author grew up in one of several cities claiming to be the "turkey capital of the world"? Tim O'Brien Which acclaimed architect's most recent project was inspired by a bamboo Chinese [...]
Originally posted, with slight modifications, in August 2009. Because it's one of my favorite sets...and because bloggers need vacations, too. We're in Truro for a short weekend, just like in 2009, in the same rented beachhouse high on the dunes above the Cape Cod sound. Wakeless trawlers and shore fishermen, beach wanderers and bathers are few and far between, mere specks on an otherwise natural landscape that fills the sense with color: green grasses, faded yellow sand, the variable [...]
On Friday, July 15, my family and I will head off on our annual jaunt to Hillsdale, NY, to help build the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival from the ground up, not to return until a full 11 days later, on the evening after the festival itself has ended. In case you're wondering why we go, just check out the image above: yes, that's me in the picture, at last year's festival, and by the Sunday morning Gospel Wake-Up Call, I fully intend to look just like that. As I noted in last [...]
The Guardian compiles their list of the 100 best non-fiction books ever written . Certainly not definitive by any means, but bookmark it for that moment when you're looking for something to balance out that crime thriller or sci fi novel. Really glad they included Michael Herr's Dispatches , which along with Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, forms an amazing Vietnam War double punch. Tweet
Up until this week, you probably hadn't heard of Monson, Massachusetts , our little haven in the woods, a tiny rural town (population 8,000) in the no-man's land between Springfield and Worcester, Hartford and Northampton. But Wednesday evening a tornado split our town in two, flattening homes, cars, businesses, and entire acres of trees, splashing our once-beautiful haven across the front page of every major newspaper from here to the UK and beyond. No one got hurt, but there's a swath of destruction like a war zone from way above downtown through the dead center of everything [...]
Unless you are a rock or have been living under one you've heard by now that Osama bin Laden was killed by Navy Seal Team 6 days ago. The man that helped in part to ignite 3 wars had been on the run for almost 10 years. This cover has been around for nearly as long as he was running as his flight. Tim O'Brien painted the portrait in 2002 when it was suspected that he had died, but the issue never ran to press. The red X was used for Zarqawi in 2006 [...]
Muruch's new Scottish reviewer, Jamie Morrison, had the wonderful opportunity to attend Mountain Stage's special concert in Glasgow, Scotland last Friday. The concert featured Joy Kills Sorrow, Dougie McLean, Mollie O'Brien & Rich Moore, and the legendary Mavis Staples. Jamie is an old, dear friend and happens to manage Oxfam's Music Shop (Facebook group: oxfammusicedinburgh or Twitter: @oxfammusicedin) in Edinburgh. His review and pics from the show are below... Glasgow's Celtic Connections festival, now in [...]
Muruch's new Scottish reviewer, Jamie Morrison, had the wonderful opportunity to attend Mountain Stage's special concert in Glasgow, Scotland last Friday. The concert featured Joy Kills Sorrow, Dougie McLean, Mollie O'Brien & Rich Moore, and the legendary Mavis Staples. Jamie is an old, dear friend and happens to manage Oxfam's Music Shop (Facebook group: oxfammusicedinburgh or Twitter: @oxfammusicedin) in Edinburgh. His review and pics from the show are below... Glasgow's Celtic Connections festival, now in [...]
This well-covered ballad, originally recorded by Lefty Frizzell just over fifty years ago yet so timeless it's often erroneously cited as a traditional tune, is not as simple as it seems. Where the vast majority of both traditional and modern folksongs range from simple verse to simple chorus and back again - if indeed they use chorus structure at all - here, the doubled chorus makes for a tripartite pattern, a heart-stutter that well suits the Saki tale of the story, twisted and self-sacrificing, with its well-timed reveal at the end of the second verse, and its grounding [...]
We've got a good one this week complete with dueling sit-ins from the same show, a song that took seven years to make it to the live stage, some great covers from a folk/bluegrass legend and two of the hottest women on the live music circuit sharing the stage for a few minutes. Let's get right into it. A reminder, you can download all of this week's audio in one easy to listen to MP3 that we call the Last Week's Sauce Podcast, click here to download . [...]
I've cheated a little here, penning this a few days in advance just in case something goes awry in our plans, scheduling it to post automatically so you could be here now. But in my mind, it's Wednesday as I write this, legs up in the passenger seat for a short leg of the long drive from San Simeon to Monterey, where my wife's relatives will be putting us up at a seaside conference center and resort that boasts such "authentic" rustic environs that it eschews TV and radio, and provides wi-fi solely in the lobby. [...]
Newport Folk 51 Coverage that Counts Steve Martin opened Newport Folk All Photos by 5342 Studios THE LEGEND CONTINUES IN NEWPORT - Friday night was opening night for Newport and the masses did gather in downtown Newport, RI to find the Tennis Hall of Fame [...]
I'm a big fan of Tim O'Brien and the way he is able to straddle the worlds of traditional bluegrass and modern folk. The new record, his 13th solo record, is called Chicken & Egg . This song is from it and is a bit old timey in both it's music and its timeless themes of lost love, bad behavior, and remorse. Preorder here now. Gonna Try To Make Her Stay
This is my third year in a row touting the Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival on these pages, and frankly, it's getting more and more difficult to truly add value to our ongoing promotion. Which is not to say the festival has been stagnating - far from it, in fact. It's just that after a decade of attendance, and three years of blogging about it, I'm running short on fresh superlatives worthy of the best grassfest around. The reigning champion of the International Bluegrass Music Association's "Festival of the Year" category [...]
Ah, Flower Communion Sunday. Traditionally the last Sunday service before a Universalist Unitarian parish moves to a lay-led summer, the Flower Communion celebrates both the contributory nature of the UU community and the natural world by bringing the blooming world into the church at its last, and then letting it go back out again as we ourselves turn to the world of social justice and peace-making. The beauty and diversity of life - of our own, and the bounty of the land - is present in the rich cornucopia of the green-stemmed bounty. [...]
Karla Bonoff (with James Taylor): The Water Is Wide [ purchase ] - Click the Online Store button and then scroll down to Restless Nights Tim O'Brien, Darol Anger, David Grisman, Michael Manring, Bela Fleck, John Jennings: The Water Is Wide [ purchase ] Indigo Girls, Jewel, Sarah McLachlan: The Water Is Wide [ purchase ] From the Wikipedia entry : "The Water Is Wide" (also called [...]
The Wicked Messenger is a track from Bob Dylan's 1967 release John Wesley Harding . The bassline defines the music and the words are steeped in bible verse. Let's dive right into this week's covers because there are some really good ones. The Contestants: The Black Keys : There are some real gems from the 2007 I'm Not There soundtrack and this is one of them. Previously on Cover Wars, Stephen Malkmus and the Million Dollar Bashers contributed a cover from the same [...]
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