Today, I’m posting a podcast of my own American roots music. A good friend, Micah Schonberg joins me on a few tracks, and I give a special glimpse into the process that goes into the making of a record… with ‘before’ and ‘after’ soundclips from my upcoming album Troublin’ Mind!
Click Here to listen to the newest American Roots Music Podcast.
For more information on my music, please visit www.kentgustavson.com or www.stolenshack.com
Clint Howard is a legendary Appalachian performer partially responsible for the advent of the song Amazing Grace, a lifelong friend and fellow musician of Doc Watson, and an incredible story teller!
Click here to listen to this podcast dedicated to his music.
Visit www.clinthoward.org for more information about this kind and generous innovator, now in his late 70s.
Run Chillen Run, Run Jimmie Run and Run Ni*@er Run are three variations of a song written by slaves before the civil war. The story of the song is one of a racist society, learning and consciously attempting to simultaneously erase and correct the injustice of the past.
Ruth Crawford Seeger, Pete Seeger, Clint Howard and Doc Watson, Clarence Ashley, Ralph Rinzler, The Skillet Lickers, Mike Seeger, Peggy Seeger and more references!
The story of American music in one song.
Listen to:
The Run Chillen Run Podcast :: American Roots Music Podcast #2
The Cuckoo may be the oldest song in human history. The earliest written vernacular songs, as well as early Tibetan writings, talk about the Cuckoo. The British celebrate the Cuckoo’s call each year as the harbinger of spring, and fertility.
The story of the song the Cuckoo takes us across the ocean, into the backwoods, into both black and white culture, and emerges, dripping wet, on the shores of the 21st century.
Doc Watson, Clarence Ashley, Jean Ritchie, Deana Carter, and more…
This is just part of the story of the beloved song, The Cuckoo!
