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"My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it. I'd like to think I did ...

John Martyn - OGWT (Old Grey Whistle Test) May You Never Dogsterr2111

I first heard Ger Wolfe's name in the lyrics to a John Spillane song, 'Magic Nights In The Lobby Bar', not knowing at the time whether he was a rea...

A Doug Lang poem written after Johnny Cash died in September 2003, read by the writer on his Better Days radio show over top the sacred steel music...

This rendition of the very old song, "St James Infirmary", comes from Allen Toussaint's brilliant 2009 release, "The Bright Mississippi", produced ...

Wizz Jones, one of the first British Beatniks, and noted folk-blues musician, performs two of his songs and talks about his life in this documentar...

UPDATE: The Plant was harvested and came up 60 grams short of a pound.

GIANT YIELD on single Platinum OG Plant INDOORS almost 1 POUND!

From his latest album, the wonderful "Live At The Red Shack", this song, "Dollar Matinee" features Eric Taylor with Nanci Griffith. You can read al...

One of the most beautiful places is waiting for you with its stunning panorama, lots of mountains to climb, amazing tracks to walk and bike and lak...

Only In Vienna - A Guide to Hidden Corners - Harry Lime's Doorway

Mickey Newbury's youngest daughter, Laura, was in Ann Arbor, Michigan, not long after her father had passed. I'd met Laura in Austin, Texas the yea...

"Immigrants Like Me" is from Tom Juravich's new album, "Altar Of The Bottom Line". Please visit http://www.tomjuravich.com for more information.

"Corin Raymond is a storyteller who by the end of the night you'll have known all your life" --Brad Wheeler, The Globe and Mail

Toronto troubadour...

Christy Moore performs Morcombe Bay on The Late Late Show, October 28th, 2011

"Mrs. Hemingway" is a melancholy waltz that honors Ernest Hemingway's first wife, Hadley, whom Ms. Carpenter describes as a shadowy figure known on...

Dónall Dempsey reading at Kiss the Sky, Hampstead, London, on 19th October 2011

Dónall Dempsey reading at Poetry Unplugged, at the Poetry Cafe, London, on 18th October 2011

http://www.playingforchange... - Hello Everyone, Today we are proud to release the newest song around the world from our upcoming PFC 2 album CD/D...

Emmylou on the Townes Van Zandt classic from Dutch TV 1978

Irish cult music of Pol Mac Adaim and he is a good friend to me . Link to his site http://www.myspace.com/polm...

"Ben Bullington's work draws life-breath from the earth, rivers, sky and people of Montana," says Rodney Crowell, the Nashville songwriting legend ...

The first installment of my street photographs from Echuca in Australia. The town is supposed to be "the paddlesteamer capital of the world" due to...

Gillian Welch's timeless Appalachian-style classic Orphan Girl, originally from the 1996 "Revival" album. This is a very beautiful stripped-down li...

Hubert von Goisern Kuahmelcher

This is the longest song, Slim Dusty or not, that I've ever heard! 'Banjo' Paterson wrote this one, and you may recognise the movie with the same t...

Smoke (1995, Dir: Wayne Wang, Paul Auster/Scr: Paul Auster)

SMOKE is a lovely understated film about a handful of lives that intersect at a smoke ...

Dedicated to Indra who is now 16 days old. For her future and all the hope the 15M movement is bringing to our lives.

Thanks to all the camera ope...

#15oct events all over the world

http://15october.net/where/

There are events planned in 962 cities and 85 countries already!

In Albania, Andorr...

"Oriental Love Song" was recorded in February of 1965 and first released on Robbie Basho's "The Grail and the Lotus" album (Takoma 1007). It was or...

This is a live recording, and was my first performance of a new song, "61 North". The recording was made by Ramcey Rodriguez at Hillbilly Haiku Hou...

This piece is adapted to video slideshow format from my radio show, "Better Days," on CFRO in Vancouver. The poem, "Transient," is a favourite of m...

Music by The Carter Family

This song goes back to a winter storm, a cold night when I had invited a woman friend to dinner. I had watched the movie, 'My Left Foot', starring ...

Suzie Ungerleider is a Canada-based singer-songwriter who goes by the stage name of Oh Susanna. This Bob Dylan song, titled 'Billy 4', was written ...

A tribute to the Irish Volunteers who fought Fascism in the Spanish Civil War, Performed by Pól Mac Adaim, with excerpts from a speech given by Dol...

Luke Kelly (Irish: Lúcás Ó Ceallaigh; 17 November 1940 - 30 January 1984) was an Irish singer and folk musician who was born in the dockside area o...

This is a rare audio clip of Joni on KCRW radio in Los Angeles, 1994, on a program called Morning Becomes Eclectic. The video begins with Joni answ...

Dónall Dempsey with some favourites at Rrrant! at the Camden Eye, opposite Camden Underground Station, Camden: THANK YOU; COPYCAT; WHEN THEY MADE Y...

I visited New Orleans again in the summer of 2008, my first time there since the flood that followed Katrina. I'd already written a trilogy of song...

Michael Ondaatje, Hamilton Tolles Lecture, April 9, 2009, reading The Cinnamon Peeler.

Dónall Dempsey reading at Poetry Unplugged on 1st March 2011 - THANK YOU; FELINE FRIENDS; DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC KISSES (Really Really Reall...

Janice Windle reading at Poetry Unplugged on 1st March 2011: THY NAME IS FRAILTY; PHOTOGRAPH; STARS IN CHARING CROSS ROAD; SPOONS; A STITCH IN TIME

Mckinley Black live in Northeim, Hotel Deutsches Haus, 29.10.2010

backing vocals: Pam Wischofsky + Mitch Steinberg

new album "Beggars, Fools And ...

It was back in 2004 that I met Magne Hellesjo and Mike Beck in Texas. We were all there at a songwriters Gathering to honour Mickey Newbury, who ha...