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dfbm #82 - Songs of Wild Nothing

dfbm #82
Songs of Wild Nothing

Wild Nothing is like an elaborate dream. A lot of wild things happen and then you wake up and there is nothing left. In the worst (or best) case there is an echo that fades away. It's similar with the music: so much music got recorded in the past …
dfbm #70 - June Apple

dfbm #70
June Apple

Welcome back to over an hour of old time jams, banjo pickin' guys and gals and music scratched out of rusty wires. Most stuff is old and from the well known sources like Smithsonian Folkways, Dust-to-Digital, Tompkins Square. Speaking of …
Lebo Jenkins - Couch's Barn and Fretless

Lebo Jenkins
Couch's Barn and Fretless

I met Lebo Jenkins in early spring when he was organizing and playing on an event with Moses Nesh and Sarah Louise in Atlanta. He knows a lot about old-time music, banjos, old pickers and he likes to tell stories. He can scratch tunes out of a f …
Lac La Belle - A Friend Too Long

Lac La Belle
A Friend Too Long

Every time I get back from the United States into my cozy little German town, I realize how big America is, how much music is going on there, and how many amazing musicians collaborate, compete and dream the American dream of making a living doing wh …
Ben Collier - Reels, Rags, & Relics

Ben Collier
Reels, Rags, & Relics

​What a great, entertaining tape Ben Collier has put together here. It's that "lazy afternoon on the back porch" kind of songs. Well known tunes like Candyman (the only one I recognized) and own songs, recorded in a very lofi one-man- …
Moses Nesh - Don't Speak To Me / Bird Nest Bound

Moses Nesh
Don't Speak To Me / Bird Nest Bound

... or a chain of coincidents. In August this year I stumbled upon a bandcamp recording by Moses Nesh who sounded really really old-timey for his young age. We exchanged a few mails where he explained a bit, why he is in old time american blues a …
C.Strøm – Grave Old Tunes

C.Strøm – Grave Old Tunes

Traditional Folk songs recorded by Christian Strøm who's standing on a fjord and is gazing south west over the Atlantic Ocean. I heard Christian Strøm songs the first time on Jeffrey Davison's Shrunken Planet, a great saturd …
Moses Nesh – Ain't No Milk Man

Moses Nesh – Ain't No Milk Man

Old-Time Blues by Young-Blood Folks... I am still amazed by the fact that young people in the US are still playing the music of their grandparents. I don't know a single person under age 30 who is playing songs by Anton Günther if t …
Black Twig Pickers & Steve Gunn - Natch 1

Black Twig Pickers & Steve Gunn
Natch 1

I already posted the NATCH recording of Zachary Cale and here is the first in this serie, by The Black Twig Pickers & Steve Gunn. It starts with a droning Hill Music/String Band thing on fiddle, banjo and guitar and with the second track Salt …

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