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You’re going to hear a lot of talk about musical legacies, with Levon Helm. With good reason. “The Weight” is also about legacies. It’s about connections. It’s about forming communities. It’s about generosity and shared responsibility. And every time I see and hear my favorite artists play it, I’m grateful for Levon Helm. I’m . . . → Read More: Levon Helm, 1940-2012 [Previously, on Southern Roadtrips with How's My Living?: Andrew Bird at the Tabernacle.] Today we got to visit with some ghosts. We got to Nashville around the middle of this afternoon, and we did a little: went to Grimey’s, walked down Broadway (so many places to buy cowboy boots, so little time), looked . . . → Read More: Concert Review: Andrew Bird, Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, TN, 3/19/12 You know, I’ve wanted to post this for a couple of weeks, and I spent all this time trying to do mental gymnastics explaining why it’s cool for me to like this despite the rampant objectification and the buckets of profanity. But this week is spring break for yours truly, I’ve spent it inside . . . → Read More: Hooray For Covers! Emmett and the Black Mountain Scorpion Bluegrass Experience Gang, “Get Low” Today is the 85th birthday of Dr. Ralph Stanley, who loomed large and mythological over my childhood. In honor of his birthday, here’s something I wrote when I went to go see him in Boulder last July — about three months after I knew I was leaving Colorado to return to the South, and . . . → Read More: Dr. Ralph Stanley Gets A Birthday Post Here’s your gorgeous for the day. The professor in the music class I’m taking this semester started off this morning with this video, and I’m considering skipping the rest of the day to watch it over and over. Mbira DzeNhaira is a mbira orchestra from Zimbabwe, and they have an album available on . . . → Read More: Wow, That’s A Good Song: Mbira DzeNhaira, “Toputika Neshungu” |
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A Tribe Called Red, “A Tribe Called Red”
This week we lost Earl Scruggs, Adrienne Rich, and Harry Crews. I’ve been feeling pretty low.
But the best thing to happen to me this week was seeing this post over at Native Appropriations about A Tribe Called Red, a DJ collective out of Ottawa. Here’s how they describe themselves:
In 2008, DJ’s NDN . . . → Read More: A Tribe Called Red, “A Tribe Called Red”