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by / on February 7, 2013 at 8:28 am / in Gimme Five, Rock Music, Roots Music, Uncategorized

‘The loamy voiced, rhythmic heart of the Band’: Recalling five of Levon Helm’s most stirring moments

Sunday gives us another chance to remember Levon Helm, as Elton John, Mavis Staples and others pay tribute to the rail-jumping, loamy voiced, rhythmic heart of the Band during the annual Grammy awards.

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by / on September 20, 2012 at 8:37 am / in Rock Music, Roots Music, Uncategorized

Movies: Bob Dylan and the Band – Down in the Flood: Associations and Collaborations (2012)

Down in the Flood, a forthcoming documentary stuffed with new interviews, archival footage and seldom-seen photographs, joins a musical revolution already in progress

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by / on February 8, 2012 at 3:23 pm / in Country, Folk, Gospel

Celebration in music, memories on tap for 80th birthday of Johnny Cash

A flurry of activity will greet the 80th birthday of Johnny Cash, including a museum dedicated to his life and the release of Bootleg Vol. IV: The Soul of Truth, a 2-CD, 51-track collection of gospel and spiritual recordings from the 1970s and ’80s.

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