Word: bluegrass
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...Brothers while browsing in one of those iconic hippie shops in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district. The album was playing on the store's sound system, and I was instantly smitten. It is impossible not to grin while listening to this infectiously upbeat blend of folk, rock and bluegrass, all played on acoustic instruments and with whimsical, witty lyrics to boot...
...most brilliant and versatile minds I know. In addition to being musician, he’s a brilliant physicist, and just a really good person.” Though he focuses on jazz, Campbell also experiments with other genres on the side. He dabbles in rock and bluegrass with the group, “The Nunitunes.” “Basically, Malcolm is a jazz monster,” says Joshua J. Nuni ’10, the band’s founder. “Playing with Malcolm is like a magic carpet ride. He takes...
...audience, then about the ideal acoustics and intimidating decor of Sanders Theatre. Every digression or anecdote evoked a strange and enigmatic vision of the man and the movement he symbolizes. The strain of music that Kottke helped make famous—a hybrid of blues, folk, country, and bluegrass traditions known as “American Primitive”—was pioneered by John Fahey, an eccentric and reclusive guitar composer. Fahey’s prolific and varied catalog—including “Blind Joe Death,” “The Yellow Princess...
...some of the greenest programming in Denver will come not from the convention itself, but from a long-running Colorado radio show called Etown, whose hosts, Nick Forster, a bluegrass musician, and his wife Helen, a singer and actress, mix music with environmental talk. Launched in 1991, Etown started small, as an independent program broadcast from the university town of Boulder, Colo. Today, the show has over one million listeners and is carried internationally by National Public Radio. As a sign of its influence, on Aug. 26 - the second night of the convention - Etown will hold a special concert...
From the start, Etown was a peculiar hybrid. The Forsters would play bluegrass, folk, rock, and host live performances, then shift into interviewing climate scientists on the frontiers of global warming. Many of the questions came directly from listeners. It was a mashup that in many ways was ahead of its time, especially in its early focus on the intricacies of global warming. "We're like original bloggers," says Nick Forster. "We were building from the grass roots...