I am always checking out new music. I like all kinds, but trend toward the Americana\/Roots\/Bluegrass stuff as well as all kinds of Jazz. “As long as it’s good” I always say, and I get to be the judge of that – like art, you know it when you hear it and I try not to dismiss other people’s tastes. I could spend hours on youtube or amazon\/itunes listening to stuff just to hear it. I do draw the line at most current pop (Britney, Miley, and the like) and rap music – that’s not my “thang”. I will listen to it to be informed before I decide I don’t want to go any further.<\/p>\n
Anyway, I present to you a list of some folks that I just “discovered” for myself and that I like. I have been on a Celtic jag lately, not related to the Boston b-ball team, but there are some others in here not in that realm.<\/p>\n
Alison Brown<\/a> – awesome banjo player (I know, an oxymoron) and singer. That’s it for now.<\/p>\n Chris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am always checking out new music. I like all kinds, but trend toward the Americana\/Roots\/Bluegrass stuff as well as all kinds of Jazz. “As long as it’s good” I always say, and I get to be the judge of …<\/p>\n
Flynn Cohen<\/a> – great Celtic guitar player from around MA. Similar playing as John Doyle, who we saw at the Lowell Folk Festival a couple of years ago with Liz Carroll.
Los Lonely Boys<\/a> – well, not that new to me, but I had never really listened to a full album before. There was an interesting bio on PBS on them that got me interested again.
Son House<\/a> – “father of the delta blues”
Mississippi John Hurt<\/a> – really a re-discovery for me as I used to listen to this stuff all the time.
Keb Mo<\/a> – sounds kind of like the young Taj Mahal to me.
Abigail Washburn<\/a> – another woman who plays the banjo. She has some interesting Appalachian\/Chinese songs goin’ on ‘cuz she used to live in there.
Tim O’Brien<\/a> – another great Celtic, Bluegrass player. He also has a written taping policy – interesting; might as well put it out there instead of ignoring it.
Thievery Corporation<\/a> – trance dance mood music – scare people away at work, although I think the Celtic might do that too.
Chris Thile<\/a> (also Punch Brothers<\/a> and late of Nickel Creek<\/a>) really nice update to traditional bluegrass. He was just on Prairie Home Companion last night (Dec 13) with Edgar Meyer and yesterday I watched some videos<\/a> of the 2 of them online that was awesome!<\/p>\n