Fri, January 27, 2012

Music and Culture Around the Web

 

Merry-Making Music: Yo-Yo Ma and Friends

Posted 1 month ago

It’s hard to predict the tides of artistic expression, and I never expected it, but the fiddle, the banjo and traditional music in general, are coming back in a big way. Old Crow Medicine Show, The Wood Brothers and The Avett Brothers keep making great music and Edward Sharpe, Mumford & Sons

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J. Edgar, Clint Eastwood and the Fatal Flaws of Biopics

Posted 2 months, 1 week ago

Right when Harry Callahan started shooting his .44 Magnums up and down the streets of my hometown, I granted Clint Eastwood a lifetime pass: if he has a hand in a film, I’ll see it. But after last night, when I struggled my way through the two and a half hour J. Edgar, I’m starting to…

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An Improbable Tale of Fate and a Missouri Fiddler

Posted 2 months, 4 weeks ago

I come to you today with a feel-good story; one of those true stories that asserts a romance that all too often feels absent in this generation. It’s a story I was told weeks ago, a story I retell excitedly to everyone I meet. But it took a wedding band’s version of “Home” to finally…

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