Pbs Folk Music Cd
Friday, May 22nd, 2009 at
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Essential Leonard Cohen $11.37 This two-disc retrospective traces the Canadian bard’s musical maturity from poet and novelist who sang a little to multidimensional artist whose oracular vocals and increasingly rich arrangements are every bit as compelling as his verse. Even when Cohen came to prominence through the 1960s songcraft of “Suzanne” and “Bird on a Wire,” the “folksinger” tag never really fit. Later highlights ranging… |
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Live In London $10.29 COHEN LEONARD LIVE IN LONDON (2 CD)… |
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Celtic Woman $6.98 Fueled by healthy public appetite for traditional melodies and quasi-ethnic roots, the crossover genre continues to flourish with this debut release from Ireland’s Celtic Woman ensemble. The brainchild of Sharon Browne, Dave Kavanaugh (founders of Ireland’s successful Celtic Collections label) and young Riverdance touring company musical director David Downes, CW’s five young women musicians and v… |
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The Weavers: Wasn’t That a Time! [VHS] $12.98 Much of what became the folk-music revival of the late 1950s and early 1960s–from which came Peter, Paul, and Mary, the Kingston Trio, and Bob Dylan, among others–began in the late 1940s with a group called the Weavers. Made up of Lee Hays, Ronnie Gilbert, Fred Hellerman, and Pete Seeger, the Weavers were part of a movement of socially conscious singers that began with Woody Guthrie (who, with H… |
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Peter, Paul and Mary, 25th Anniversary Concert [VHS] $19.98 PPM did specifically as a fundraiser for PBS in the 80s… |
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Holiday Concert [VHS] $14.24 … |
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Peter, Paul & Mary: 25th Anniversary Concert $10.12 This delightful and moving program celebrates folk troubadours Peter Yarrow, Paul Stookey, and Mary Travers and their quarter-century of making music together. Hear such beloved tunes as “Puff, The Magic Dragon,” “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?,” “Leaving on a Jet Plane,” “Blowin’ in the Wind,” “This Land Is Your Land,” and more. 88 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English…. |
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Bob Dylan – No Direction Home $7.33 Songwriter. Rocker. Rebel. Legend.He is one of the most influential inspiring and ground-breaking musicians of our time. Now Academy Award®-nominated director Martin Scorsese (Goodfellas 1990) brings us the extraordinary story of Bob Dylan’s journey from roots in Minnesota to his early days in the coffee houses of Greenwich Village to his tumultuous ascent to pop stardom in 1966. Joan Baez Allen … |
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Down from the Mountain (The O Brother, Where Art Thou? Concert) $6.94 If you love the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack, D.A. Pennebaker, Chris Hegedus, and Nick Doob’s exhilarating concert film Down from the Mountain will be sheer heaven. And if you’re new to bluegrass and “old-time mountain-style” music, the performances (also on CD) will be a revelation. John Hartford, Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch, the Cox family, the venerable Ralph Stan… |
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The Land Where the Blues Began $15.25 Co-founder–with folklorist father John A. Lomax–of the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress, Alan Lomax traveled the South “from the Brazos bottoms of Texas to the tidewater country of Virginia” in search of the wellspring of American blues. Previously the author of Mister Jelly Roll, Lomax stalks the ghosts of Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Big Bill Broonzy and Charlie… |
Ticonderoga – Black Watch in North America
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The Weavers: Wasn’t That a Time! [VHS] $12.98 Much of what became the folk-music revival of the late 1950s and early 1960s–from which came Peter, Paul, and Mary, the Kingston Trio, and Bob Dylan, among others–began in the late 1940s with a group called the Weavers. Made up of Lee Hays, Ronnie Gilbert, Fred Hellerman, and Pete Seeger, the Weavers were part of a movement of socially conscious singers that began with Woody Guthrie (who, with H… |
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Peter, Paul and Mary, 25th Anniversary Concert [VHS] $19.98 PPM did specifically as a fundraiser for PBS in the 80s… |
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Holiday Concert [VHS] $14.24 … |
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Peter, Paul & Mary: 25th Anniversary Concert $10.12 This delightful and moving program celebrates folk troubadours Peter Yarrow, Paul Stookey, and Mary Travers and their quarter-century of making music together. Hear such beloved tunes as “Puff, The Magic Dragon,” “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?,” “Leaving on a Jet Plane,” “Blowin’ in the Wind,” “This Land Is Your Land,” and more. 88 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English…. |
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Bob Dylan – No Direction Home $7.33 It’s virtually impossible to approach No Direction Home without a cluster of fixed ideas. Who doesn’t have their own private Dylan? The true excellence of Martin Scorsese’s achievement lies in how his documentary shakes us free of our comfortable assumptions. In the process, it plays out on several levels at once, each taking shape as an unfailingly fascinating narrative. There is, of course, the … |
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Troubadours: The Rise of the Singer-Songwriter (DVD+CD) $11.97 Movie Summary This PBS American masters documentary recounts the beginning of the singer songwriter movement in the 1960s and 1970s focusing on the collaboration between Carole King and James Taylor and their performances at the Troubadour club in West Hollywood Calif. DVD Details * Actor(s): Carole King * Format: Color Standard screen * Additional: CD Included * Rating: NR * MSRP: $19.98 * Releas… |
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Essential Leonard Cohen $11.37 This two-disc retrospective traces the Canadian bard’s musical maturity from poet and novelist who sang a little to multidimensional artist whose oracular vocals and increasingly rich arrangements are every bit as compelling as his verse. Even when Cohen came to prominence through the 1960s songcraft of “Suzanne” and “Bird on a Wire,” the “folksinger” tag never really fit. Later highlights ranging… |
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Live In London $10.29 COHEN LEONARD LIVE IN LONDON (2 CD)… |
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Celtic Woman $6.98 Fueled by healthy public appetite for traditional melodies and quasi-ethnic roots, the crossover genre continues to flourish with this debut release from Ireland’s Celtic Woman ensemble. The brainchild of Sharon Browne, Dave Kavanaugh (founders of Ireland’s successful Celtic Collections label) and young Riverdance touring company musical director David Downes, CW’s five young women musicians and v… |
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The Land Where the Blues Began $15.25 Co-founder–with folklorist father John A. Lomax–of the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress, Alan Lomax traveled the South “from the Brazos bottoms of Texas to the tidewater country of Virginia” in search of the wellspring of American blues. Previously the author of Mister Jelly Roll, Lomax stalks the ghosts of Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Big Bill Broonzy and Charlie… |
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