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A Song Ain’t Nothin’ But a Story: Wes Weddell’s Nobody’s Flag

I’ve seen a quote attributed to the great Hank Williams: “A song ain’t nothin’ in the world but a story just wrote with music to it.”  In Norse legend, the Three Norns sit at the foot of Yggdrasil, the tree … Continue reading

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The L&N Don’t Stop Here Any More

A point of context for the subtitle in my commentary yesterday on the Diary of Pvt. Orrin Brown. Jean Ritchie was born into a family of folk balladeers in the Cumberland Mountains of eastern Kentucky.  Song catchers like Alan Lomax sought … Continue reading

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JohnSmith in Windom

I was going to see folk singer JohnSmith play the Carson Meeting House at Delft tonight, just north of Windom, in the Prairie Wind Folk & Bluegrass series.  After slogging home from my boy’s basketball tourney Saturday afternoon in 1/4-mile or … Continue reading

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