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Book/Mixed Media Review – Li’l Andy “The Complete Recordings of Hezekiah Procter (1925 – 1930)”

November 4, 2022 Rick Bayles 0

Fascinating and ambitious project that shines a light on the roots of Old Time music and the start of commercial recording. We’ve had some really good multi-media projects come to us for review this year, and […]

Paperback Riders – Harriet Beecher Stowe “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”

October 28, 2022 Tim Martin 0

‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin: or, Life Among the Lowly’ was published in 2 parts in 1852. The abolitionist movement was gaining ground and Stowe wrote the novel in the wake of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, which […]

Book Review: Ian Clayton “In Search of Plainsong”

October 13, 2022 Rick Bayles 1

Back in 2018, I reviewed Iain Matthews’ excellent autobiography, “Thro’ My Eyes” and, in many ways, “In Search of Plainsong” can be seen as a companion to that book. When Iain Matthews wrote his memoir he […]

Paperback Riders: David N Meyer “Twenty Thousand Roads: The Ballad of Gram Parsons and His Cosmic American Music”

September 30, 2022 Tim Martin 0

A quick look around Good Reads finds twelve biographies that are either directly about Parsons, or about the bands he was part of. So, if we are picking one source to learn about Gram Parsons why […]

Book Review. John W. Barry “Levon Helm: Rock, Roll, Ramble. The Inside Story of the Man, the Music and the Midnight Ramble”

September 12, 2022 Rick Bayles 2

There are many, especially among Americana aficionados, who would consider John W. Barry a very lucky man indeed. To have spent so much time with the late, great Levon Helm, at the tail end of his […]