Woody Guthrie

Discourse Karaoke

Bob Dylan's debut album released 50 years ago today

​For all of the profound mythologizing that is done over the illustrious music career of Bob Dylan, he began the process just like any other musician with the bold but tentative first steps of a debut record. While very few Dylan enthusiasts will list Bob Dylan as among their favorite (or even ... More >>

SXSW: Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band at ACL Live

​By Craig HlavatyBruce 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 y ... More >>

11 country songs for "Occupy MN"

You load 16 tons, whaddya get? Well, you'd be lucky to get a coal mining job these days. Okay, so lucky's perhaps not the most apt word, but plenty of folks would be happy to get one, anyway. Today, in recognition of the horse muck the folks in power have gotten us stuck in, and in honor of the fo ... More >>

Walker Fields offer up new live album for free download

​Though they just released their first full-length album last summer, the Woody Guthrie-inspired Walker Fields have already recorded a live follow-up full-length, and they are giving away the entire thing for free online.

Twins and Timberwolves players pick their entrance music: What's yours?

A few personal favorites herein.

10 country musicians to watch in 2011

​As I culled through lists of new and upcoming releases from new and up-and-coming country artists, I couldn't help but notice a pattern: many were by women, and most of those by women who seemed to be taking country in a slightly new direction (occasionally, the "new" direction one that count ... More >>

Joan Baez at the Minnesota Zoo, 7/13/10

Photos by Steve Cohen​Joan Baez has been performing for over 50 years, and her voice is just as lovely as ever. "I've had to drop my songs down a few notches to match my voice now," she noted apologetically during her show at the Minnesota Zoo last night. But aside from a few key changes her old c ... More >>

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, the Jayhawks, and more

Photos by Steve Cohen​Joan Baez has been performing for over 50 years, and her voice is just as lovely as ever. "I've had to drop my songs down a few notches to match my voice now," she noted apologetically during her show at the Minnesota Zoo last night. But aside from a few key changes her old c ... More >>

Ramblin' Jack Elliott

Photos by Steve Cohen​Joan Baez has been performing for over 50 years, and her voice is just as lovely as ever. "I've had to drop my songs down a few notches to match my voice now," she noted apologetically during her show at the Minnesota Zoo last night. But aside from a few key changes her old c ... More >>

Luke Redfield, Aria Souder

Photos by Steve Cohen​Joan Baez has been performing for over 50 years, and her voice is just as lovely as ever. "I've had to drop my songs down a few notches to match my voice now," she noted apologetically during her show at the Minnesota Zoo last night. But aside from a few key changes her old c ... More >>

Willy Porter

Photos by Steve Cohen​Joan Baez has been performing for over 50 years, and her voice is just as lovely as ever. "I've had to drop my songs down a few notches to match my voice now," she noted apologetically during her show at the Minnesota Zoo last night. But aside from a few key changes her old c ... More >>

World's Toughest Rodeo rolls into town this weekend

Head injuries, monkeys, country music and sexism: What to expect at the rodeo.

The Klezmatics

Head injuries, monkeys, country music and sexism: What to expect at the rodeo.

Film Highlight: Sound Unseen

Head injuries, monkeys, country music and sexism: What to expect at the rodeo.

Ryan Bingham & the Dead Horses

Head injuries, monkeys, country music and sexism: What to expect at the rodeo.

Doomtree's Cecil Otter finds his voice apart from the rap pack

Sage Francis' label picks up Otter's 2008 release, Rebel Yellow

Nanci Griffith

Sage Francis' label picks up Otter's 2008 release, Rebel Yellow

The Flatlanders

Sage Francis' label picks up Otter's 2008 release, Rebel Yellow

Franz Ferdinand, Voltage: Fashion Amplified, and more

Sage Francis' label picks up Otter's 2008 release, Rebel Yellow

Little Feat

Sage Francis' label picks up Otter's 2008 release, Rebel Yellow

Electric Fetus hosts four days of music, registers voters

Sage Francis' label picks up Otter's 2008 release, Rebel Yellow

SOLD OUT: Billy Bragg

Sage Francis' label picks up Otter's 2008 release, Rebel Yellow

The Klezmatics Hanukkah Party

Sage Francis' label picks up Otter's 2008 release, Rebel Yellow

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

Sage Francis' label picks up Otter's 2008 release, Rebel Yellow

Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings

Sage Francis' label picks up Otter's 2008 release, Rebel Yellow

Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings

November 16; First Avenue; 612.332.1775

Artists of the Year

November 16; First Avenue; 612.332.1775

"Something about that song haunts you"

November 16; First Avenue; 612.332.1775

Scoring Your Next Score

Tapes 'n Tapes are in the mood for love

Kentucky Fried Horse

Leave your family. Throw away your money. And don't worry. You'll never regret having done it.

Christmas of the Pod People

What are those little white boxes with wires telling us to do?

Ol' Yeller: Sounder

What are those little white boxes with wires telling us to do?

Purity of Essence

What are those little white boxes with wires telling us to do?

Stars and Stripes Forever

What are those little white boxes with wires telling us to do?

Aural History

Larry Long overturns the "great man" theory of traditional music, one folk at a time

Bellwether: Bellwether

Larry Long overturns the "great man" theory of traditional music, one folk at a time

Woody Guthrie: The Asch Recordings

Larry Long overturns the "great man" theory of traditional music, one folk at a time

The First Shall Be Last

After leaving House of Pain, rapper Everlast discovers the hardships of an endangered middle class

various artists: Real: The Tom T. Hall Project

After leaving House of Pain, rapper Everlast discovers the hardships of an endangered middle class

Timeless Films

Make time to check them out

Man Out of Time

Two albums devoted to Woody Guthrie discover new notes in the people's music. Does the song remain the same?

A Whiter Shade of Gray

Two albums devoted to Woody Guthrie discover new notes in the people's music. Does the song remain the same?

Concrete Blonde Y Los Illegals

Two albums devoted to Woody Guthrie discover new notes in the people's music. Does the song remain the same?

Bourgeois Blues by Lead Belly & This Land is Your Land by Woody Guthrie

Two albums devoted to Woody Guthrie discover new notes in the people's music. Does the song remain the same?

WOODY GUTHRIE LIVES

Two albums devoted to Woody Guthrie discover new notes in the people's music. Does the song remain the same?

Contemporary Troubadour

Two albums devoted to Woody Guthrie discover new notes in the people's music. Does the song remain the same?

Contemporary Troubadour

Two albums devoted to Woody Guthrie discover new notes in the people's music. Does the song remain the same?

Youth Against Fascism

In his new book on America's folk revival, Robert Cantwell looks at our post-war romance with the "real."

Record Roundup

In his new book on America's folk revival, Robert Cantwell looks at our post-war romance with the "real."