Word: folke
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CRYING WOLF: Author Renee Askins lives in tiny Wilson, Wyoming (pop. 10,000), with four dogs, three parakeets, her husband, folk-singing legend Tom Rush, and their three-year-old daughter. The rugged Jackson Hole lifestyle suits Askins just fine. Her new book, "Shadow Mountain: A Memoir of Wolves, a Woman, and the Wild" (Doubleday) describes how she endured death threats and political attacks in her struggle to restore wolves to Yellowstone National Park. When Askins came onto the scene, every wolf in the west, including those within Yellowstone National Park, had been killed off systematically over the course...
Club Passim has been a fixture of Harvard Square since the 1960s, when it used to host folk musicians like “Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Bonny Raitt and everyone else you can think of,” according to music operations manager Matthew H. Smith...
...aftermath of that raid, coalition forces can hardly count on friendly tips from the mountain folk of Uruzgan, Zabul, Helmand and Kandahar provinces to help them close in on Omar. Many there sympathize with Omar. "They are his friends, he is their leader, and he is also their guest," says Mullah Gul Akhund, a police commander in Kandahar. "They must protect him." Should those bonds prove feeble, the Taliban know how to drive home the consequences of treachery. In mid-June, Mullah Bradar was seen on horseback in Helmand province, in the mountains near Washir. About the same time...
...failed marriage to model-actress Julianne Phillips, Springsteen moved into a $14 million mansion in Beverly Hills, Calif. (the faithful jeered), wed Scialfa in 1991 (the faithful cheered) and sang about relationships, kids and his ennui (the faithful shrugged). Then in '95 he put out an album of folk songs, The Ghost of Tom Joad. It won a Grammy for best contemporary folk album, but it felt more like a Woody Guthrie tribute than a Springsteen record. The songs were stark and compelling, but the old optimism was gone. The characters of Tom Joad lived on the fringes of American...
DIED. ALAN LOMAX, 87, folk-music collector who helped discover Woodie Guthrie, Jelly Roll Morton, Muddy Waters and others; in Sarasota, Fla. Described as "a missionary" by Bob Dylan, Lomax brought American folk music to the rest of the world, influencing the British skiffle craze of the 1950s, which gave rise to the Quarrymen, led by a young John Lennon...