Folk Music Gift Ideas for 2011
Compact Discs New This Year
Updated 12/06/11
Kyle Alden: "Songs for Yeats' Bee-Loud Glade" - Delightful set of songs based on poems by William Butler Yeats.
Robert Bobby: "A Brief History of Time" (self) - Really good, smart singer-songwriter and selector of great songs by others. Good sense of humor too.
Bill Frisell: "All We Are Saying" (Savoy Jazz) - Beautiful, inventive, instrumental versions of Beatles songs by this master guitarist and some colleagues.
Beppe Gambetta: "Live at Teatro della Corte" (Gadfly) - The wonderful Italian musician with selections from the concerts he has hosted in Genoa over the last decade with a variety of other great musicians.
Ken and Brad Kolodner: "Otter Creek" (Fenchurch Music) - Nice traditional, old-timey, Celtic father-son duo from Virginia.
Pokey LaFarge & The South City Three: "Riverboat Soul" (Free Dirt Records) - Fun, lively, almost jug band-sounding band from St. Louis.
Rod MacDonald: "Songs of Freedom" (Blue Flute Music) - An always smart, thoughtful, sometimes political songwriter now living in Florida with songs written after the 2008 election.
Steve Martin: "Rare Bird Alert" (Rounder) - Fine banjo playing with tunes and a few songs all written by Martin and accompanied by his very talented friends and associates.
Jesse McReynolds & Friends: "Songs of the Grateful Dead" (Woodstock) - Creative interesting covers of Dead songs by this surviving half of the great early traditional bluegrass duo Jim & Jesse.
Noam Pikelny: "Beat The Devil and Carry A Rail" (Compass) - Great bluegrass banjo player with wonderful "solo" album.
Tennessee Mafia Jug Band: "Poor Leroy's Almanac" - Musicially skilled, fun interesting band.
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