Topic: Folk Music
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In Pictures: Bob Dylan turns 70
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Record store day: 10 of the best album covers ever
In honor of Record Store Day (which I imagine the GOP wants to get rid of), I've compiled my own fairly random list of top ten album covers. The criteria was simple: I'd hang it on my wall. . . if I hung record jackets on my wall. Enjoy!
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Photos of the Day: Photos of the Day 02/07
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Holiday gift guide 2010: Top 5 music picks
Music is appreciated throughout the year and makes a great holiday gift for family and friends. Here are some suggestions – ranging from Ken Burns' 'Baseball' soundtrack to Dave Brubeck – recommended by the Monitor staff. Click on the link at the end of each item to purchase on amazon.com, and a small percentage will go to support the Monitor.
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In Pictures: Restoring sanity?
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Doc Watson, innovative guitarist and 'positive icon' for Appalachian region
Doc Watson, who passed on Tuesday, developed a signature style of guitar picking, elevating the instrument to frontline status and influencing guitarists of every genre.
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Doc Watson: North Carolina's blind guitar picker extraordinaire
Doc Watson, one of America's greatest folk musicians, passed on Tuesday. Doc Watson won eight Grammy Awards and influenced a generation of guitar players.
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Woody Guthrie, in an age of 'Occupy'
On his centennial, tributes pour in for a man who made complex social issues deceptively simple through song and championed the downtrodden.
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Eat more kale: A David vs. Golaith fight with Chick-fil-A?
Eat more kale? Chick-fil-A says it owns the "eat mor chikin" phrase. A Vermont man says no one is going to confuse kale with chicken.
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Six Picks: Paul Simon, new AMC Civil War series, and more
Collection of Paul Simon lyrics in print, website that documents New Yorkers and what they're reading, new AMC Civil War series, and more.
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China: Ethnic minority music finds an advocate
Laurent Jeanneau roams the ethnic minority villages of China recording the 'unofficial' music.
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Top Picks: James Bond reboot, Bill Moyers on faith, Franz Liszt at 200, and more
Ian Fleming's 007 in a new novel, Bill Moyers looks on church and state, a tribute for Franz Liszt's 200th birthday, and more recommendations.
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In Pictures: Bob Dylan turns 70
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Classic review: Bob Dylan in America
Sean Wilentz's study of enigmatic music icon Bob Dylan is at once a time-hopping biography; a catalog of Dylan’s myriad, eclectic influences; and a primer on American music.
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Chapter & Verse
Whatever happened to the protest song?
Dorian Lynskey, author of "33 Revolutions Per Minute," talks about the history of the protest song and why it seems to have disappeared.
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Record store day: 10 of the best album covers ever
In honor of Record Store Day (which I imagine the GOP wants to get rid of), I've compiled my own fairly random list of top ten album covers. The criteria was simple: I'd hang it on my wall. . . if I hung record jackets on my wall. Enjoy!
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The Reformed Broker
Bernanke will defend the Fed. Every quarter.
For the first time in the central bank's history, it will hold quarterly news conferences starting next month. But is it really that big of a deal?
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Photos of the Day: Photos of the Day 02/07
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Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune: movie review
Through interviews and film clips, 'Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune' creates a complex and fascinating portrait of the counterculture folk singer.
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Holiday gift guide 2010: Top 5 music picks
Music is appreciated throughout the year and makes a great holiday gift for family and friends. Here are some suggestions – ranging from Ken Burns' 'Baseball' soundtrack to Dave Brubeck – recommended by the Monitor staff. Click on the link at the end of each item to purchase on amazon.com, and a small percentage will go to support the Monitor.
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In Pictures: Restoring sanity?
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Photos of the Day: Photos of the Day 10/28
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Photos of the Day: Photos of the Day 10/20
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Bob Dylan in America
Bob Dylan was not so much a sponge as an alchemist, taking common materials and creating new art.
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Photos of the Day: Photos of the Day 04/12
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In Pictures: China's Lantern Festival
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Monsters of Folk: Making hits without the hype
Even in this age of iTunes and Rock band video games, the supergroup has found an audience and an album hit.
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The Protest Singer
A slim new biography celebrates the life of icon and activist Pete Seeger.
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Play it again ... and we'll sue
Venues for up-and-coming artists are disappearing as copyright licensing fees get stiffer, although some relief is in sight.
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Bluegrass music echoes from honky tonks of ... New York?
Weekly jam sessions at the Grisly Pear, led by ‘Sheriff’ Bob Saidenberg, reveal a vibrant and egalitarian bluegrass scene in the Big Apple.
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