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Just Over the Next
Hill...
 ... there,
where Woody is pointing - there is some good music playing, and
maybe in your neighborhood. Lots of folks are going to see Bob
Dylan this summer - he's doing another barnstorming tour of
minor league ball parks, a "Major League Triple-Header" as
the Hartford Courant called it, with John Cougar Mellencamp and
Willie Nelson. In Allentown they called it a "rumbling, rolling
convoy" of 11 tractor trailers, 10 buses and 115 people. 
OK, it's not
a folksinger in a VW Microbus (been there, done that), not what you
call an inimate show, but it's Bob, the one-and-only. Reports are
that all three acts step up to the plate and swing hard. We don't
usually promote "mainstream" media events, but this is iconic
American music. The
tour is in New England this weekend, heading south and then
west, true rolling thunder.
The Painting: "This Land is
Made for You and Me - Charles Banks Wilson
Song of the
Week
Alright
Dynamite is an extraordinary new album
from 24-year-old Canadian singer/musician andfiddler Kendal
Carson. Born in Canada, Carson studied the fiddle and
was performing by the age of three with the Victoria Symphony. She
also became a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Canada. At
the age of nine she performed with the BC Fiddle Orchestra.
Kendal
generously offers a free track from the album, Oh, Baby Lie Down,
our efM "Song
of the Week" editors pick - Listen
and download here
Artist of the
Week
Josh
Bass
is our featured
artist this week, a 25 year old folk/blues singer-songwriter
from New York who has written, sung and played guitar
for a number of different projects. Josh offers an MP3 of "Hold Me
Up", from his self-titled first album. Go
here to listen and download - plus you can subscribe to the RSS
feed and get a song delivered weekly to your computer, click-free
operation!!
New and Notable
Electric
Dirt (Dirt Farmer Music/Vanguard Records) is the
second album in the last two years from  Levon
Helm. Its predecessor, Dirt Farmer, his first
solo LP in a quarter century, followed Levon’s near-miraculous
recovery from throat cancer, and as such represented a new lease on
life for the legendary artist, who rose to prominence as the drummer
and vocalist for Levon and the Hawks, which later became The
Band.
 Big stars like George
Strait should be helping us out, rather than the
other way around, but this is a pretty good platter. George
co-produced this thirteen-track disc with legendary producer Tony
Brown, Strait proves again why he has sold over 67 million albums
throughout his record-breaking career. Twang,
Strait’s 38th album, was recorded at Shrimpboat Sound Studio in Key
West, FL.
Is life sweet, or what?
Buy this CD, George gets a new hat...
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Tip
O'the Week for players and fans:
We got an
email from from Massachusetts folk-rocker Erin
McKeown, announcing a series of
houseconcerts, with a twist. She's webcasting the
shows using a new service, ustream.tv.
The service allows anyone with a webcam and a mic to broadcast
live "TV" from wherever to everywhere!!! She is selling
tickets on her website and sending ticket holders the URL and
a password just before the show to give them access.
There's
one this weekend, on the 16th, you might want to check
it out, this is pretty cutting edge stuff. If it really
works it could be the "next big
thing" in power-to-the-people, go around the
gatekeeper, grassroots arts-making. (Artists- let us
know if you have a "cutting edge" event planned, we'll spread
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