All Blog Posts Tagged 'Charlie' (12)

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www.charlierothmusic.com

Well I haven’t heard all of Charlie Roth’s previous six albums, but I suspect that Cactus Tartan Heart is his best work yet. Inspired by his recent troubadour travels around the British Isles, Charlie seems to have distilled his own particular melange of Celtic, country and folk music into something that touches…

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FTB podcast #138 features the new album by VERLON THOMPSON called Works. Also new music from WHITEHORSE, CHARLIE FAYE and SOUTHERN CULTURE ON THE SKIDS. Here's the iTunes link to subscribe to the FTB podcasts. Here's the direct… Continue

www.charlieparr.com 

A UK compilation on Tin Angel Records, Cheap Wine should help latecomers like myself appreciate what a wonder Charlie Parr is. His website announces him thus:  "One man, one guitar, one foot in the grave";  between that  and the image of the fulsomely bearded Charlie sitting on a stool blasting out his own songs, you'll have a fair idea what…

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Charlie Louvin, half of the Louvin Brothers whose harmonies inspired fellow country and pop singers for decades, died early Wednesday morning, due to complications from pancreatic cancer.…

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Thanks to my friend and fellow old-timey pilgrim Jerry and a timely face book intervention, I was part of a small but robust and highly excited audience, at the Highlands best emerging music venue The Old Bridge Inn in Aviemore. Id heard and played Charlie Parr on my Radio, because my friend Steve from non corporate medicine show sponsors Square Wheels Cycles, had sat me down in his front room to…

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Its a dark day, rest in peace Charlie, he has left the world of music a better place for his presence, he will be badly missed, I had the great good fortune of knowing Charlie and knew him as an insperation, he was always ready to talk about music, happy to pass advice and genuinely interested to hear any of my news, I'm still in shock.



In the same way John Peel was irreplaceable, I fear World Music will experience the same kind of… Continue

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In tribute to old-time musician, hard drinking womanising banjo playing vocalist Charlie Poole (1892-1931), American folk legend Loudon Wainwright once married to fellow folk artist, Kate McGarrigle and father of Rufus and Martha Wainwright who are now forging careers of their own dips back in time for material on this album. Plus, along with songwriter-producer Dick Connette written nine new songs to go with the other twenty… Continue

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As blues legends go Charley Patton is up there with the best, and seen by many as the most important figure of the pre-war Mississippi Delta blues scene through his rich, full-bodied music.

In comparison to the likes of Robert Johnson, Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters and Sun House among others he may often be over-looked, but that should not be the case as this Properbox set illustrates.

While the 4-CD set is… Continue