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Woody Guthrie

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2012

    SXSW: Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band Rock ACL Live

    By CRAIG HLAVATY Bruce Springsteen's Thursday started with a keynote speech in one of the big ballrooms at the Austin Convention Center, and ended with a mythic three-hour set at ACL Live across town, in front of a few thousand people cooing "Bruce!" The keynote and the show went hand in hand. If ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 6, 2012

    The Top 5 Weirdest Woody Guthrie Covers

    By DAVE GIL DE RUBIO When Woody Guthrie's daughter Nora opened up the archives of her father's copious amounts of unreleased material to Billy Bragg and Wilco back in the late '90s, the union produced two Mermaid Avenue albums chock full of the late Okie's unrecorded lyrics set to new music. The re ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2011

    Mark Growden's New Traditionalism, and What Green Day's Mike Dirnt Does On His Days Off

    ​Local jazzman-turned-folkie Mark Growden: There are many ways to interpret and preserve the traditions of musical Americana. One is treat it like a museum piece, with pious reverence -- thereby sucking the fun clean out of it. Another is to revamp it, keep its mannerisms, but supercharge it, muck ... More >>

  • Music

    February 16, 2011

    Mark Growden’s New Traditionalism

    A sometime jazzman tackles American folk, and leaves his own imprint.

  • Music

    January 20, 2010

    The Devil Makes Three gives roots music hedonistic attitude

    A sometime jazzman tackles American folk, and leaves his own imprint.

  • Music

    January 13, 2010

    New Alan Lomax box set captures old Haiti with fresh ears

    A sometime jazzman tackles American folk, and leaves his own imprint.

  • Blogs

    September 3, 2009

    Sarah Lee Guthrie: Folk for the Whole Family

    Brand New Folk: Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion​With all the hub-bub around freak-folksters like Devendra Banhart and alt.folk chanteuses like Jolie Holland, it's nice to see traditional folk hasn't been forgotten. However, it has been updated by third generation singer-songwriter Sarah Lee Gut ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 5, 2009

    Special Guests Announced For Tom Morello's Slim's Show

    EKAphotographySomebody's Watching You: Tom Morello Back in the pre-Obama days, Tom Morello was like, the only guitar god with a conscience. While Slash and Jack White were doing bumps off of stripper tits, Morello was playing demonstrations outside the Democratic National Convention (with Rage Agai ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2008

    Black Keys Added to 'This Land is Your Land' Lineup

    EKAphotographySomebody's Watching You: Tom Morello Back in the pre-Obama days, Tom Morello was like, the only guitar god with a conscience. While Slash and Jack White were doing bumps off of stripper tits, Morello was playing demonstrations outside the Democratic National Convention (with Rage Agai ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2008

    Cat Power, Sheryl Crow, Henry Rollins, Mike Ness at This Land is Your Land Festival 9/20

    EKAphotographySomebody's Watching You: Tom Morello Back in the pre-Obama days, Tom Morello was like, the only guitar god with a conscience. While Slash and Jack White were doing bumps off of stripper tits, Morello was playing demonstrations outside the Democratic National Convention (with Rage Agai ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2008

    Sheryl Crow Reschedules Bay Area Performance

    EKAphotographySomebody's Watching You: Tom Morello Back in the pre-Obama days, Tom Morello was like, the only guitar god with a conscience. While Slash and Jack White were doing bumps off of stripper tits, Morello was playing demonstrations outside the Democratic National Convention (with Rage Agai ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 18, 2008

    RATM's Tom Morello Stumps for Cindy Sheehan Next Saturday at Fat City

    EKAphotographySomebody's Watching You: Tom Morello Back in the pre-Obama days, Tom Morello was like, the only guitar god with a conscience. While Slash and Jack White were doing bumps off of stripper tits, Morello was playing demonstrations outside the Democratic National Convention (with Rage Agai ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 18, 2008

    Parts Unknown

    EKAphotographySomebody's Watching You: Tom Morello Back in the pre-Obama days, Tom Morello was like, the only guitar god with a conscience. While Slash and Jack White were doing bumps off of stripper tits, Morello was playing demonstrations outside the Democratic National Convention (with Rage Agai ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 9, 2008

    Strung Out

    EKAphotographySomebody's Watching You: Tom Morello Back in the pre-Obama days, Tom Morello was like, the only guitar god with a conscience. While Slash and Jack White were doing bumps off of stripper tits, Morello was playing demonstrations outside the Democratic National Convention (with Rage Agai ... More >>

  • Film

    November 21, 2007

    One of Us Must Know

    The elusive Bob Dylan, masterfully considered, in I'm Not There

  • Music

    October 3, 2007

    Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Pools Together Roots Music Enthusiasts

    The elusive Bob Dylan, masterfully considered, in I'm Not There

  • Music

    September 26, 2007

    Mekons

    Natural (Quarterstick)

  • Music

    August 15, 2007

    Peter Case

    Let Us Now Praise Sleepy John (Yep Roc)

  • Blogs

    July 19, 2007

    The Bird and the Bee, Sonic Youth, Aaron Ross -- ASD's Live Music Picks for Thursday, July 19

    Let Us Now Praise Sleepy John (Yep Roc)

  • Summer Guide

    June 27, 2007

    Sixties Flashback

    Sounds of the Summer of Love echo through today

  • Music

    September 20, 2006

    Native Monster madness

    Sounds of the Summer of Love echo through today

  • Film

    September 13, 2006

    Ghost World

    True-crime noir goes searching for Hollywood's heart of darkness

  • Music

    November 30, 2005

    Freakwater

    Thinking of You...

  • Music

    May 11, 2005

    Hear This

    Tom Russell pays homage to "real goddamn American character"; Dengue Fever takes you to Cambodia and back

  • Calendar

    December 31, 2003

    Blue Year's Eve

    Reaves-Phillips breaks it down

  • Music

    July 9, 2003

    House of Tudor

    A Deadhead's Songcatchers and the best rock band in America

  • Culture

    March 26, 2003

    War on War Songs

    Iraq and roll don't go together well when rockers protest

  • Music

    March 26, 2003

    The Bard of Tomales Bay

    Jesse DeNatale gets back to nature

  • Holiday

    November 20, 2002

    GIFTS

    DVDs | Music DVDs | CDs | Books

  • Music

    November 13, 2002

    MC Paul Barman

    Paullelujah!

  • Music

    June 19, 2002

    Wander Lore

    Folk singer David Dondero finds his songs the old-fashioned way -- by roaming the country's highways and byways

  • Music

    October 17, 2001

    House Of Tudor

    Horror-hop DJs, soup-spewing actresses, and prickly peared singers

  • Culture

    December 13, 2000

    Rockin' Dixie

    Two Southern-fried artists bring politics and religion to light, while Grace Slick checks her pulse

  • Culture

    October 25, 2000

    Crushing Grapes

    Frank Galati's adaptation of The Grapes of Wrath arrives, at last, in Santa Clara

  • Music

    August 30, 2000

    House Of Tudor

    The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack

  • Music

    April 12, 2000

    Riff Raff

    Have you heard? The Bay Area music scene is dead. Somebody killed it.

  • Music

    January 19, 2000

    House Of Tudor

    Teenage Frames, Neomythic, Austin Lounge Lizards, Alan Kaufman, Lowbrow

  • Music

    January 5, 2000

    Riff Raff

    Transmission Theater, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Mark Hummel

  • Music

    November 17, 1999

    A Hobo's Progress

    U. Utah Phillips, inspiration to Ani DiFranco and card-carrying Wobbly, is Northern California's institutional memory of itinerant folk

  • Music

    August 25, 1999

    Hear This

    Gillian Welch and David Rawlings

  • Music

    December 30, 1998

    1998: The Year in Lists

    Gillian Welch and David Rawlings

  • Calendar

    December 2, 1998

    NIGHT & DAY

    Gillian Welch and David Rawlings

  • Music

    November 11, 1998

    Riff Raff

    Gillian Welch and David Rawlings

  • Music

    October 14, 1998

    Country and Midwestern

    Gillian Welch and David Rawlings

  • Music

    July 29, 1998

    Reviews

    Gillian Welch and David Rawlings

  • News

    March 25, 1998

    Letters

    Gillian Welch and David Rawlings

  • Music

    March 11, 1998

    Hard Travelin'

    Ramblin' Jack Elliott has a few more stories to tell

  • Music

    July 30, 1997

    Riff Raff

    Ramblin' Jack Elliott has a few more stories to tell

  • Music

    June 11, 1997

    Americana Gothic

    The Carter Family reissues (Rounder)

  • Music

    August 7, 1996

    Suspicious Minds

    The Carter Family reissues (Rounder)

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