Spinning Tales:: April 2009

This blog is created on Sunday, April 26, 2009 (temperature hit 90 I think and full sun) to track 'Spinning Tales From All Walks of Life', my radio program aired on WMCBlp 107.9 FM (and soon to be streamed!) on Fridays, 4p-6p.
1. Old time music of all sorts. Music predominantly from the 1920s and 30s and before - string band, Southern mountain music, rust belt, Ozarks, country blues, cajun, border music from Texas and southern Arizona, sea songs and shantys - all sung and played by musicians from the 1920s and 30s and before as well as contemporary musicians.
2. Stories - stories from people anywhere and anytime but mostly people I meet around here. Everyday stories, the usual and the not so usual,today's and yesterday's stories - its all part of the life and times we live.
We will have weekly playlists and hopefully updates about musical and story happenings plus music recommendations of all sorts.

Bringing You The Music From Before

Mike Seeger, arguably, did more than another musician to preserve the traditional music of the Appalachian hills and bring it to a larger audience during our lifetime. A superb multi-instrumentalist, here he is playing with the New Lost City Ramblers, a group he formed and toured with extensively.

Michael Doucet has been a primary force in bringing Cajun music to its widespread popularity today. A multi-instrumentalist, he received an NEA Folk Arts Apprenticeship Grant to study Cajun fiddle styles from masters such as Varise Conner, Hector Duhon, Canray Fontenot, Lionel LeLeux, and Dennis McGee in 1975. He is a recipient of a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and his group Bousoleil has received two Grammy awards.

While his brother Flaco Jimenez mixed the Norteño sound with modern influences like jazz and country, Santiago Jr. upheld the traditions of his father and concentrated on the basic formula of two-button accordion with guitar, bass, and voice accompaniment. Here he performs with Los Cenzontles (The Mockingbirds)a group also very active in preserving and performing the traditional music of Mexican Americans. As well as performing, the members of the group also founded and operate Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center in San Pablo, California.

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