Napolian Strickland on fife, R.L. Boyce on snare drum, Othar Turner dancing; Blues Unlimited
Yesterday the Alan Lomax Archive Channel offered an update with a distinctive video of Napolian Strickland singing and providing his own accompaniment on…
Category Archives: Art, Poetry and Musings
Almanac For Moderns: Howling White-Fanged Days
January Fourth
Now we are in the very lists of winter, and what a winter, with the Atlantic coast lashed with storm on storm, with ships crying at sea through the lost staccato of their wireless. Cold blowing out of the Arctic, out of Keewatin, …
To The New Year 2012
From the Foster-Fluharty Farm; Matthew Fluharty
from Sabbaths, 2005
VI.
I tremble with gratitude
for my children and grandchildren
who take pleasure in one another.
At our dinners together, the dead
enter and pass among us
in living love and in …
4H Royalty: It’s Gonna Be A Rock and Roll Blowout
Album art from 4H Royalty’s Colossalalia
Today I offer this song for folks’ New Year’s Eve revelries: “Rock & Roll Blowout” by 4H Royalty.
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Woody Guthrie’s New Year’s Resolutions
Woody Guthrie’s New Years Rulin’s; WoodyGuthrie.org
Another reason to look forward to 2012: the centennial of Woody Guthrie’s birth. A full year of events, publications, exhibits, and recordings are planned – all of which can be followed on the Wo…
Finding Sustainability In "Generation Organic"
From the 2011 Young Farmers Conference; Maggie Starbard, NPR
Many thanks to the folks who have shared news of this report by Dan Charles broadcast on NPR’s All Things Considered yesterday: “Who Are The Farmers of ‘Generation Organic’:”
For deca…
Rural Poetry Series: Lorine Niedecker’s Calendar
photograph by Bonnie Roub; from the Electronic Poetry Center
As the year draws to a close, we say goodbye to our focus, over the last few months, on the “calendar poems” of Lorine Niedecker. More information on this series can be found here; and,…