Boing Boing just ran an excellent series on cultural roots of music and how blind most are to them. It runs fifteen parts, each illustrated by a video and covers country, soul, blues, bluegrass, classical and each is worth watching. I love following the roots of music, as a society we ignore so much excellent [...]

Singer Kate McGarrigle has died, she is well known to folk fans, but less known to the general public. Her Matapedia album, done with her sister Anna, is in my top five folk albums of all time.

Jeremy Clarkson goes to see Mama Mia at the theater. I did this once as well. Once. Via The Flibbergibbet

Big shout out to my Beatles fan peoples out there! Via Boing Boing

Two quick videos from around the webs for Friday: First up Swedish Death Metal Bluegrass: The the long forgotten 1951 version of Raiders of the Lost Ark:

This Elvis song could have easily been written by HP Lovecraft. Via the Trollsmyth

I am about one quarter of the way done listening to the SXSW samples for this year. The ones I like best so far can be found here. It is a real mix of genres, with a lot of Rock, some Hip-Hop, some Electronic, and a fair bit of Folk. Folk and Country are at [...]

If you haven’t seen Sita Sings The Blues you really should. It is very good and available for free. I have heard good things about it for quite awhile, but finally watched it yesterday and was very impressed. You can watch it on some streaming sites or download a HD file and watch it with [...]