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The Year’s Best Coverfolk Singles (2019) A-sides, b-sides, deep cuts,...
It was a long lonely year, and we missed plenty, we’re sure – a natural artifact of a life lived on the road more than ever, halfway between home and hospital, and work and worry, that kept us from...
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On the Trail of Social Justice, Redux (More songs of place and protest)
Three summers ago, we drove together up the country on the trail of social justice, from New Orleans to the great gentrified factories at the base of the Great Lakes. The Birmingham Jail, a historical...
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RIP David Olney (1948-2020) A songwriter’s legacy, covered in folk
It’s hard not to write about David Olney without name-dropping. When the 71 year old touring folk musician and “founding father of Nashville Americana” died quietly on stage during a performance this...
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(Re)Covered: New Covers from Familiar Folk Sean Watkins, Sam Gleaves, and...
Yes, folk fans and cover lovers, we’re back in earnest after a slow set of tributes to the past, eager to take on the new and the novel. And where better to begin than with the truly familiar and...
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Don’t Let Us Get Sick (Coversongs for a growing pandemic)
There’s so much to share: a new favorite YouTube sibling duo; still-unfeatured covers albums and singles from Karine Powalt and Ruston Kelly, Rachel Kilgour and Tracy Grammer; our afternoon at the Joe...
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Isolation Coverfolk: A Social Distancing Playlist
Looks like we’ll be home for a few weeks, thanks to late-game honest-to-goodness State of Emergency declarations at every scale of government. We’ll have time, now, for that backlog of sound. And...
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Covers From Home: Music In A Time Of Quarantine
It started last Thursday, with a short set from Kris Delmhorst’s living room; her concert at Club Passim that night had been cancelled at the very last minute, in reaction to concerns about contagion...
View ArticleQuarantine Interlude: #coversfromhome
Just a quick stop-in today, to let you know that we’ve been sharing live covers throughout the day on the Cover Lay Down Facebook page as we find them: living room and garden takes all, solo and...
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(Re)covered: New Coverfolk from Old Friends John Statz, The Watkins Family,...
What a month it’s been for coverfolk, with over a hundred newly-recorded live #coversfromhome posted on our Facebook page in just the last 30 days alone. Our cup runneth over, and we’re doing our...
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Notes from Isolation: A Soundtrack for Now
A certain melancholy characterizes the songs of the world now. Piano and strings serve the mood as much as the slow guitar. New song lyrics and releases speak of coming to terms with, missing,...
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