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December 2020

Baltic Crossing, "The Tune Machine"
" ... infectious, poignant, and invigorating"
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Glen Herbert
Not Our First Goat Rodeo
“Not Our First Goat Rodeo” is a follow up to 2011’s “Goat Rodeo Sessions,” which won a Grammy Award for best folk album in 2013.
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Glen Herbert
Twisted Pine’s “Right Now”
There has always been a streak of rebellion running through the musical world, with artists seeking to be new and different.
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Glen Herbert
The John Santos Sextet, “The Art of the Descarga”
It’s unfortunate that, for many Canadians, a knowledge of Afro-Latin jazz begins with Tito Puente and ends with the Buena Vista Social Club.
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Glen Herbert
Leyla McCalla, “Vari-Colored Songs”
If you needed a reminder of how big the world really is—and, these days, who doesn’t—you’ll find it in Leyla McCalla.
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Glen Herbert
Erynn Marhshall and Carl Jones, “Old Tin”
Will Carter, the founder of Clifftop, perhaps the premiere old-time festival in the world, has said that old-time music is about “that tradition of…
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Glen Herbert
Willard Gayheart and Friends, “At Home in the Blue Ridge”
Galax, Virginia, is one of the most important musical communities in North America that you’ve never heard of.
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Glen Herbert
music and life
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Glen Herbert
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