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It Takes The Village: Interviews with Shelby Lynne, Rickie Lee Jones, Michael Timmins, John Oates, Amos Lee, Rachael Yamagata, Steve Berlin, and More

Mike Ragogna | Posted 10.31.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Amos Lee, The Decemberists, Leftover Salmon, Mississippi John Hurt, Sonny Terry, Los Lobos, The Lovin' Spoonful, Eric Andersen, Joe Ely, John Sebastian, Chip Taylor, Pete Seeger, Matt Umanov, Daryl Hall & John Oates, Hall & Oates, Brownie McGee, Greenwich Village, Woody Guthrie, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Fred Neil, Joan Baez, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGee, Daryl Hall, Rachael Yamagata, The Duhks, Sixpence None the Richer, Judy Collins, Doc Watson, Marshall Crenshaw, Art Alexakis, Bleecker Street, Bruce Hornsby, Lucinda Williams, Cowboy Junkies, Jerry Garcia, Dave Van Ronk, Suze Rotolo, Drew Emmitt, Bob Dylan, Tim Buckley, This Mortal Coil, Shelby Lynne, Rhino Records, Steve Berlin, Entertainment News, Rocco DeLuca, Joni Mitchell, Rickie Lee Jones, John Oates, Richie Havens, 429 Records, Entertainment News

It's a little surprising that until now, no one has put together a tribute album to folk's fertile days in New York's Greenwich Village.

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HuffPost Reviews: Twilight's New Moon, Kerouac's Big Sur, Cohen's Isle Of Wight, and more including This Week's New Albums

Mike Ragogna | Posted 10.20.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Michael Jackson, Jason Mraz, The Jacksons, Son Volt, Lawrence Ferenghetti, Joan Baez, Miles Davis, Flight of the Conchords, John Mayer, Jay Farrar, Judy Collins, The Killers, Woodstock, Thom Yorke, David Bowie, The Jackson 5, Curt Worden, Sam Shepard, Jack Kerouac, Twilight, Kris Kristofferson, Big Sur, Patti Smith, The Twilight Sage: New Moon, Radiohead, Tom Waits, Benjamin Gibbard, The Doors, Kings of Convenience, Leonard Cohen, Death Cab for Cutie, Robert Francis, Murray Lerner, The Band, Bruce Springsteen, New Moon, Entertainment News

Leading off with Death Cab For Cutie's infectious "Meet Me On The Equinox," New Moonmay be after your traditional teen market's pop dollars, but they're also attempting to tap into 20-something angst.

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How Sweet The Sound: An Interview With Joan Baez

Mike Ragogna | Posted 10.15.2009 | Entertainment

For most of the fifty years since she debuted at the Newport Folk Festival, Joan Baez has dedicated her life and music to fighting for equality and social justice, and for bringing about positive change in the world.

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HuffPost Reviews: Hall & Oates, Baez & Dylan, Simon & Ondrasik, and More

Mike Ragogna | Posted 10.15.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Rob Thomas, Steve Earle, Paul Simon, Daryl Hall & John Oates, Hall & Oates, Edie Brickell, Joan Baez, Daryl Hall, Harper Simon, Ben Nichols, Ben Gibbard, Roger McGuinn, Lou Reed, Built to Spill, David Crosby, Henry Gross, Robert Christgau, Travis Mccoy, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, Twilight, John Ondrasik, Todd Rundgren, Jesse Jackson, Sean Lennon, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, Death Cab for Cutie, Dusty Springfield, Entertainment News, John Denver, John Oates, Lucero, Har Mar Superstar, Entertainment News

Filled to the brim with radio staples like "Sara Smile," "Maneater," "Rich Girl," and about 25 other significant charters, Hall and Oates' new 74-track assembly truly is one of the best box sets ever released.

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Judy Collins Sings The Stuff Of Folklore, Perfectly

Katy Hall | Posted 12.01.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Judy Collins Cafe Carlyle, '60s Pop Music, Cafe Carlyle, Leonard Cohen, Judy Collins, Joni Mitchell, Folk Music, Bob Dylan, Music, Joan Baez, Entertainment News

She drifted into a few lines of 'Suzanne,' the song Leonard Cohen wrote for her to sing but made him famous, stopping herself just as she got to those oranges that traveled halfway around the world in the summer of 1965.

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An Interview With Janis Ian Plus This Week's New Albums

Mike Ragogna | Posted 09.23.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Michael Jackson, Inner Circle, The O'Jays, Imogen Heap, The Adventures, Janis Ian, Cate Bros., Rubicon, Daryl Hall & John Oates, The Beach Boys, Woody Guthrie, Eric Burdon, REO Speedwagon, Otis Redding, Now That's What I Call Country, Matt Hires, Mark Schultz, Jack Ingram, Smile Empty Soul, Roy Hargrove, Billy Ocean, Cheap Trick, Rory Gallagher, David Guetta, Stefon Harris & Blackout, Michael Bolton, Queen Latifah, Matisyahu, Robert Glasper, The Roy Hargrove Big Band, Cass Elliot, Neil Diamond, The Casualties, Roberta Gambarini, Patton Oswalt, George Benson, Elvis Presley, Phil Stacey, Tim Buckley, Delores O'Rioran, Carmen Appice, The Mamas & the Papas, Al Jarreau, The Old Grey Whistle Test, Entertainment News, Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble, The Dukes, Paul Revere & the Raiders, 16 Horsepower, Collective Soul, Fun., Alan O'Day, Pilot, Now That's What I Call Music, Kitty Daisy & Lewis, Roy Orbison, The Bloody Beetroots, Felix Da Housecat, Teddy Pendergrass, The Subdudes, James Carter, Adam Ant, Colbie Caillat, Arctic Monkeys, Jeff Golub, Jackie DeShannon, Island Records, Fame, Woodstock, Sounds of Blackness, Yo Gabba Gabba!, Smokie Norful, Irma Thomas, Mew, Tanya Stephens, Brian Bromberg, Willie Nelson, Jack Wagner, The New City Ramblers, Mott the Hoople, Love and Theft, New Releases, Deryl Dodd, Cross Country, Radiohead, Bob Dylan, Nat King Cole, Kenny G, Jet, Niti Sawhney, Vander Graaf Generator, Sally Shapiro, John Denver, Jason Aldeean, Smokey Robinson, Taking Woodstock, Vandaveer, Najee, Selah, Needtobreathe, Latoya, Strawbs, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, The Advocate, Lgbt, Sony Legacy, Verve Records, Roberta Flack, Leonard Bernstein, Grammy, Ang Lee, Atlantic Records, Jerry Wexler, Gramma Awards, Saturday Night Live, Wbai, Wnew, Miami Vice, Dar Williams, Birthers, Fox News, Cher, Teabaggers, Joan Baez, Glen Campbell, Mel Torme, Death Panel, Nina Simone, Entertainment News

Janis Ian is one of the Woodstock era's unsung musical heroes who, just two years prior to the Bethel Bash, shocked our nation with her controversial single "Society's Child."

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Sex, Drugs, Rock 'N Roll in Redneck Country

Ethel Grodzins Romm | Posted 09.15.2009 | New York

Read More: President Nixon, Joan Baez Woodstock, Marijuana, Vietnam War, Acid, Woodstock, Catskill Mountains, Politics of Ecstasy, Pot, Hippies, Timothy Leary, Lsd, Woodstock Anniversary, Joan Baez, New York, Music Festival, Sex Drugs and Rock and Roll, American Music Festivals, New York News

He introduced his girlfriend as "my old lady." She was maybe 17. They were both stripped to the waist, lying in a zipped-open sleeping bag, like hundreds, thousands, of couples around them.

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Remembering Woodstock: A 13-year-old's Experience Still Resonates Today

Jim Schumacher and Debbie Bookchin | Posted 09.14.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Dave Marsh, Politics, Social Change, Woodstock, Music, Joan Baez, Pete Fornatale, Abbie Hoffman, Taking Woodstock, Entertainment News

What I remember about Woodstock was that even though I was essentially alone -- dressed only in a tee-shirt and a pair of jeans with a few dollars in my pocket -- I never once felt afraid.

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Woodstock-Era Green Bands' Past and Present Activism

Treehugger | Blythe Copeland | Posted 09.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Green Movement, Green Activism, Arlo Gutherie, Celebrity Environmental Activism, Green-Music, Going Green, Green Celebrities, Green, Woodstock, 40th Anniversary Woodstock, Green Living, Green Bands, Woodstock Anniversary, Joan Baez, Green News

Woodstock may have been a one-of-a-kind concert, but the artists and bands that performed there didn't let their commitment to global, political, and ...

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Woodstock's 40th Anniversary

Pete Fornatale | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: 1960s, Woodstock, 1969, Music, Entertainment, Pete Fornatale, Radio, David Crosby, Roger Daltrey, Anniversary, Joan Baez, Woodstock Museum, Politics News

Woodstock was, without question, the high-water mark of the '60s youth revolution -- musically, politically, and socially.

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An Interview With Buffy Sainte-Marie, Plus Train and Digital 45 Updates

Mike Ragogna | Posted 09.12.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Chaka Khan, Columbia Records, Afrika Bambaataa & the Soul Sonic Force, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Scorr Underwood, The Doobie Brothers, Rickie Lee Jones, Seals & Crofts, Air America, Vanguard Records, Commander John Herrington, The Charlatans, Cash for Clunkers, Sesame Street, Woodstock, Vietnam War, The Cradleboard Teaching Project, Chumbawamba, Van Morrison, Phil Ochs, Third Eye Blind, Jimmy Stafford, Georgia Satellites, Eric Anderson, Rhino Entertainment, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Digital 45, Donovan, Marc Cohn, Judy Collins, Folk, First Nations, Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons, Train, Neil Diamond, Martin Terefe, Kellogg Foundation, Elvis Presley, Npr, Itunes, Rhino Records, David Lee Roth, Mr. Big, Pat Monahan, Nasa, Alannah Myles, Anita Baker, The Marcels, President Obama, The Highwaymen, Grateful Dead, Native Americans, Genesis, Keith Olbermann, Fred Neil, Glen Campbell, Harry Chapin, Joan Baez, Tom Rush, Joe Cocker, Foghat, Ford Foundation, Pacifica, Gordon Lightfoot, Entertainment News, Jennifer Warnes, Morrissey, Bobby Bare, Tommy James and the Shondells, Randy Travis, Jon Stewart, Entertainment News

This being Woodstock Week, it seemed a perfect time to catch-up with this artist whose music influenced many of those who appeared at the culture-changing event.

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The Singing Manifesto (Dedicated to Joan Baez)

Reverend Billy | Posted 08.31.2009 | New York

Read More: Public Space, Nyc, Revbilly, Michael Bloomberg, New York City Mayor, Joan Baez, New York City Mayor Race, New York News

The corporations and their politicians are watching where we put our bodies and how we raise our voices. They come running with renta-cops at the slightest suggestion of freedom.

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A World Without Gord: A Salute to Gordon Waller of Peter & Gordon

Martin Lewis | Posted 08.19.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Paul McCartney, Peter & Gordon, Peter Asher, Gordon Waller, Joan Baez, Entertainment News

The world is a quieter, sadder place for the recent passing of Gordon Waller -- one half (with Peter Asher) of the beloved Peter & Gordon duo.

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Thank God It's Thursday: Oklahoma's College of Rock with Scott Booker, Raphael Saadiq's New Video, Rhino's Digital 45s, More Woodstock, The Bee Gees, and Kimya Dawson

Mike Ragogna | Posted 08.16.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Joe Cocker, Arlo Guthrie, Johnny Winter, Country Joe McDonald, Third Eye Blind, Melanie, Martin Scorsese, John Sebastian, Mountain, Paul Kingsbury, Ravi Shankar, Chip Monck, Joan Baez, The Butterfield Blues Band, Bee Gees, Rober Altman, Sha Na Na, Pete Townshend, The Flaming Lips, Andy Zax, The Who, Abbie Hopffman, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Sly & the Family Stone, Oklahoma, Woodstock, Kimya Dawson, Michael Lang, Incredible String Band, Bruce Pollock, Oklahoma Central University, John Morris, Jerry Garcia, Max Yasgur, Crosby Stills & Nash, Scott Booker, Andy Gibb, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Canned Heat, Michael Wadleigh, Jeffrey Shurtleff, Yasgur's Farm, Tim Hardin, Country Joe & the Fish, Grace Slick, Holly George-Warren, Education, The Grateful Dead, Mike Evans, Entertainment News, Rolling Stone, Blood Sweat & Tears, Itunes, Richie Havens, Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane, The Academy of Contemporary Music, Quill, Sweetwater, Entertainment News

Built on the whole School of Rock phenomenon, the University of Central Oklahoma has a new music division that teaches all aspects of popular music such as performance, production and business affairs.

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Thank God It's Thursday: Miles Davis, The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Charles Mingus, Tito Puente and Babatunde Olatunji

Mike Ragogna | Posted 07.26.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Babatunde Olatunji, Eugene Wright, Carlos Santana, Legacy Edition, Gil Evans, Paul Desmond, Horace Parlan, Joan Baez, Miles Davis, Michael Cuscuna, Mickey Hart, John Coltrane, Fidel Castro, Dave Brubeck, Charles Mingus, Gunther Schuller, Carnegie Hall, Dannie Richmond, Ornette Coleman, The King of Mambo, Manuel De Falla, Tito Puente, Sony, Jazz, Entertainment News, Duke Ellington, El Rey, JoaquíN Rodrigo, The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Joni Mitchell, Frank Sinatra, Joe Morello, Entertainment News

Mostly celebrating jazz's 1959 frontier, six classic albums have been re-imagined as Legacy Editions, expanding each of the originals by adding an extra disc.

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Having a Secret Policeman's Ball

Brad Schreiber | Posted 07.13.2009 | Entertainment

Martin Lewis is a multi-headed entertainment serpent no longer interested in being a mere producer but is bent on some plan for world domination.

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Joan Baez At Woodstock: Her Song For Joe Hill (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Katherine Thomson | Posted 06.30.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace and Music, Film, Joan Baez Woodstock, Joan Baez, Woodstock, Music, Entertainment News

Below is a clip of Joan Baez singing a song for Joe Hill at Woodstock, 40 years ago this coming August. Hill was a labor activist and member of the ...

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Pete Seeger, "Folk Music" and the Left

Jesse Larner | Posted 06.08.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Fellow Travelers, James Lileks, Banjo, Joseph Stalin, Barbarossa, Ron Radosh, Pete Seeger, March on Washington, Folk Music, Woody Guthrie, Nicaragua, Bob Dylan, Mark Steyn, Kingston Trio, World War Two, Yalta, Billy Bragg, Communism, Doc Watson, Mao Zedong, Guitar, Leninism, Joan Baez, Franklin Roosevelt, Kim Il-Sung, Ho Chi Minh, Fidel Castro, Medgar Evers, Amy Goodman, Entertainment News

As someone on the left who loves folk music, I understand that I'm supposed to feel mystically uplifted by the dean of activist folkies. But I never could stand Pete.

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An Insider's (AKA Commie Jew's) Perspective on Pete Seeger's Birthday Concert!

Katie Halper | Posted 06.04.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Arlo Guthrie, Bruce Springsteen, Dave Matthews, Emmylou Harris, Joan Baez, Music, Pete Seeger, Richie Havens, Tim Robbins, Pete Seeger Birthday, Pete Seeger Birthday Concert, Video, Entertainment News

Show starts. Native American Indian Cultural Alliance. I'm nervous that Pete will be a no show and is using concert to highlight the exploitation of Native Americans a la Marlon Brando at the 1973 Oscars.

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Pete Seeger Deserves One More Honor -- the Nobel Peace Prize

Peter Dreier | Posted 06.04.2009 | Home

Read More: Pete Seeger, Folk Music, Madison Square Garden, Nobel Peace Prize, Joan Baez, Birthday, Bruce Springsteen, Barack Obama, Pete Seeger Nobel Peace Prize, Pete Seeger Noble, Pete Seeger Concert, Home News

A truly modest man, Seeger has become a reluctant icon. But he deserves at least one more moment on the world stage -- at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Norway.

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Springsteen Leads Star-Studded 90th Birthday Concert For Pete Seeger

AP | JOHN CARUCCI | Posted 06.04.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Emmylou Harris, Arlo Guthrie, Music, Pete Seeger, Dave Matthews, Joan Baez, Richie Havens, Tim Robbins, Bruce Springsteen, Entertainment News

NEW YORK — A star-studded medley of musical guests played tribute to Pete Seeger at a benefit concert for the legendary folk singer's 90th birth...

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WHAT ARE YOU DOING WHILE THE CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT PONDERS PROP 8?

Judy Wieder | Posted 04.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Melissa Etheridge, Florida, Proposition 8, ACT UP, Milk, Academy Awards Milk, California Prop 8, Joan Baez, California, Gay Rights, Arkansas, California Supreme Court, Vietnam War, Kenneth Starr, California Gay Marriage Ban, Gay Marriage, Politics News

Mr. No More Nice Gay is pissed off because he suddenly gets it. He may be young, but he is struggling. And worse than that, his struggle is old: He's still not equal.

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Folkin' Around with Benjamin Taylor, His Dad James, Dar Williams and That Guy Mark Erelli

Mike Ragogna | Posted 10.27.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: New Orleans, Simon Draper, Keith Urban, Kate Markowitz, Jimmy Johnson, Michael Landau, Cd, Hudson River, Grey Zeien, Glen Campbell, Mark Erelli, Joan Baez, Kathy Feighery, Daryl Hall, Coal Miners, Matthew Kinney, Aidan Draper, Livingston Taylor, John Mayer, Bill Mumy, The Temptations, Naras, Folk, Val Clark, Carly Simon, Stephen Robinson, Dar Williams, Marshall Crenshaw, John Anderson, Kung Fu, Sally Taylor, Grammy Awards, David Lasley, Folk-Rock, Simon & Garfunkel, Entertainment, RIchard Bruce, Suzanne Vega, Jamie Cullum, David Saw, Lou Marini, New York, Benjamin Taylor, Digipak, Christopher Albert, Barry Mann, Greg Leisz, Leonard Cohen, Muscle Shoals, Musician Magazine, Marnie Hillsley, The Dixie Chicks, Joni Mitchell, Steve Gadd, Arnold McCuller, James Taylor, Jimmy Webb, Smokey Robinson, Mississippi River, Entertainment News

"Buzzer" is the album's most complex and surreal recording. It is an edgy piece crafted around her character's life choices and their results.

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Culture Zohn: Lessons from Lenny

Patricia Zohn | Posted 10.26.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Black Panthers, West Side Story, Tom Wolfe, Rock the Vote, Bono, Dixie Chicks, Leonard Bernstein, Bob Dylan, Carnegie Hall, Joan Baez, Gustavo Dudamel, Stills, Nash, Crosby, Entertainment News

Let's hope in the current economic meltdown, we find a way to keep our artists and composers close to home.

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Joan Baez: Blessed be the Barefoot Madonna and Her 50 Years of Peacemaking

Cathleen Falsani | Posted 10.19.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Quakerism, Newport Folk Festival, Americana, Folk, War, Day After Tomorrow, Steve Earle, Peacemakers, Tom Waits, Peace, Spirit of Freedom Award, Spirituality, Americana Music, Joan Baez, Religious Music, Faith, Entertainment News