If Jackson Cavalier & The Fevertones were to turn it up and increase the speed, the band would just end up killing its volume and speed. You follow? It’s kind of hard to explain, but ramping up the topical aspects of the band would make it lose its intensity. Fortunately this minimalist, acoustic-driven Rochester band […]
Folk Music
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“Labor” of love
Singer-songwriter Christopher Paul Stelling is on the road to the Newport Folk Festival in a recently purchased, unassuming white touring van he has affectionately named Walt Whitman. As he recounts the various jobs he held throughout his 20’s — grocery store worker, luthier’s assistant, bookstore employee, sushi chef, dishwasher — a male blowup sex doll […]
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Family ties
There was a time in the mid-1970’s when you could hardly turn on a radio without hearing the pop hit “Cat’s In The Cradle.” Singer Harry Chapin wrote the music and his wife Sandy wrote the lyrics of the quintessential song about a child and his absent father. Their daughter, Jen Chapin, now a formidable […]
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Judy Collins coming to East House
During the 1960’s and ‘70’s, Judy Collins was a folk music goddess. Her soaring soprano lifted songs like Joni Mitchell’s “Both Sides Now” to the heavens. The recording, which appeared on her debut album, “A Maid of Constant Sorrow,” earned Collins her first Grammy Award. Collins’ seemingly free spirit was part of her appeal during […]
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Film Review: “Inside Llewyn Davis”
The writing/directing team of Joel and Ethan Coen can claim a considerable number of movies that pleased both critics and audiences, not always an easy achievement. Their work varies widely, films as different as an outrageous comedy like “The Big Lebowski,” an eccentric crime story like “Fargo,” or a dark, bloody thriller like “No Country […]
