http://www.stereojane.com Folk music, rock music ... Music News Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:03:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The BBC have launched their Cambridge Folk Festival mini-site, click here for the link.  By the end of the festival it will be bursting at the seams with video clips and all other sorts of fancy stuff. Also, The BBC Proms Folk Day is this Sunday (20th July).  Bella Hardy, Martin ... http://www.stereojane.com/folk-music/cambridge-and-folk-proms-news/   Who is John Henry I hear you ask. Well, to me it was a They Might Be Giants album, an awesome album at that but not much more. This could be because I am not an American, and don’t go much for folk music or history. However, our good friends ... http://www.stereojane.com/folk-music/john-henry/ Just an FYI for any of you out there that may care......you can join Leblanc, the School Girl, Crafty Momma, and myself at Windows Off the Cumberland (515 2nd Ave. South) in good ole Nashville, TN this Friday, July 18th for the Flat Rock Revival CD release party. We'll ... http://www.stereojane.com/folk-music/come-party-this-friday/ Female singers in mainstream pop like Mariah Carey and Leona Lewis habitually sustain and mangle vowels to engender fake emotion into banal love songs. The intonation of Josephine Foster is also mannered and eccentric but the effect is much more profound. It sounds like she is singing from the ... http://www.stereojane.com/folk-music/this-coming-gladness/ This is the first installment of the "ethno/musicological" discussion of filk that I promised everyone several days ago. I have to tell you that I was incredibly encouraged by the number of responses to that post, the insightfulness of these comments, and by the depth of passion displayed for this ... http://www.stereojane.com/folk-music/filk-as-folk/ So Mystery Road has been taking a break to work on new songs and to work on bettering our already existing catalog.  I just have to say that for the first time in my creative life, I feel like I'm working with a group of people who really invest a ... http://www.stereojane.com/folk-music/greetings-from-the-break/ Hey Roadies! Hope you all are doing well.  So much for a break eh?  We've managed to do TWO gigs since we decided to take that lil break until August to work on new songs.  What we all agreed on was that we wouldn't plan to do any shows but if ... http://www.stereojane.com/folk-music/so-much-for-a-break/ on the 2 January 1492 the Andaluz city of Granada fell to a besieging army of christian Celts and franks ending 750 years of Arab civilisation in the Iberian Peninsula. What had become a haven of learning, culture and tolerance met the kind of violent end that was to characterise ... http://www.stereojane.com/folk-music/free-morris/ This is also another one of my very early attempts at studio photography (see yesterdays blog) from the mid to late 1970's. At the time I was doing a lot of photography for a regional magazine and would trade photography for ad space sometimes when they didn't have much of a budget ... http://www.stereojane.com/folk-music/make-a-joyful-noise/ The folk genre is gonna be big people, take my word for it. Alternative all sounds the same now and is quickly getting old. Jay Brannan is one of my favorite artists. He sounds different and his lyrics are wacky, but he's fucking fantastic.I discovered him after seeing the controversial film ... http://www.stereojane.com/folk-music/jay-brannan/