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Helen Hartness Flanders

Springfield, Vermont

(May 19, 1890 – May 23, 1972)





A native of the U.S. state of Vermont, Helen Hartness Flanders was an internationally recognized ballad collector and an authority on the folk music found in New England and the British Isles. At the initiative of the

Vermont Commission on Country Life, Flanders commenced a…

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Posted with permission from The A.V. Club



by Sam Adams July 19, 2011



Although Emmylou Harris still lives in Nashville and has shared a stage or a microphone with just about all the country singers worth their cowboy boots, she’s never been country through and through. Her voice has a mournful quality that reaches back before the West was won, a sound that’s come to the fore over the last couple of decades as she’s definitively departed from the land of fiddles… Continue

 

March 18, 2011

A note from Garrison on reports he is retiring in the spring of 2013.

"I'm in London, walking around under an umbrella with my daughter in hand, looking at fields of yellow and white daffodils, the flower that excited Wordsworth. This morning a reporter rang me up, as they say here, to ask if I am retiring in the spring of 2013, as reported in the papers. There isn't a simple answer to that. The simple fact is that mortality is a…

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Nonesuch Records releases "Tell My Sister", a special three-disc set comprising remastered versions of Kate and Anna McGarrigle’s beloved 1976 self-titled debut; its equally praised 1977 follow-up, Dancer with Bruised Knees; and a collection of previously unreleased songs, including solo and duo demos, on May 3, 2011. Joe Boyd, who produced the McGarrigles’ first two albums, assembled the material for the third disc in addition to…

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