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Making Peace With The Wild Things, Redux: A Prayer For My Students 25 Aug 2013 | 12:01 am
After two weeks preparing to teach a 10th grade English class in the struggling urban school where I work, at the eleventh hour, I’ve been re-assigned to teach English to a cohort of students who fail...
RIP Chicago singer-songwriter Matt Ryd (On wellness, illness, and the artistic lifestyle) 17 Aug 2013 | 08:48 pm
I will stumble, will I fall? I’ll be humbled, will I crawl? I am broken, will I be healed? I am beaten, am I torn? I’m alive, but nothing more. I am broken, will I be healed? - Matt Ryd, “Healed...
I’m Getting Older, Too: A Coverfolk Mixtape (from Bowie’s Changes to Dylan’s Back Pages!) 11 Aug 2013 | 07:04 pm
Though the folk camp skews older, it is not irrelevant that I am older than most music bloggers. Age matters, in the intersecting world of music and homage which we inhabit. Our tastes are formed by t...
Covered In Folk: Arcade Fire (Sara Lov, Ana Egge, Ane Brun, Clare Burson, Calexico & more!) 28 Jul 2013 | 07:26 pm
Let’s start with the obvious: Arcade Fire isn’t folk music. And if you’re an older folk fan, or just generally not alt-Top 40 savvy, you may barely recognize the bandname, though one or two songs may ...
Oceanfolk 2013: Covers for Sand, Surf and Sound 26 Jul 2013 | 03:20 am
Originally posted, with slight modifications, in August 2009, and again in 2011. Because it’s one of my favorite sets – and because bloggers need vacations, too. We’ve just got back from a short week...
The Wailin’ Jennys cover: Neil Young, John Hiatt, Gillian Welch, Emmylou Harris & more! 21 Jul 2013 | 04:03 am
Plus new solo coverage from Cara Luft and Ruth Moody! We’re suckers for sweet girl-group harmonies here at Cover Lay Down, with previous features on Red Molly, Be Good Tanyas, and others offering amp...
Burning Up, 2013: More Songs for a Heat Wave (from Ring Of Fire to Heat of the Moment, covered in folk) 18 Jul 2013 | 03:08 am
It’s been one of the hottest summers on record here in New England, with temperatures in the nineties for almost a dozen days since early June – so intolerably hot, in fact, that for the first time si...
Single Song Sunday: Dead Flowers (From “appalling” original to countryfolk standard) 14 Jul 2013 | 07:48 pm
Critics seem to agree that the original version of Dead Flowers is a bit of a mess, though like most older Rolling Stones tracks, it still shows up on classic rock radio from time to time. Mostly, its...
Tributes and Cover Compilations, Summer 2013 (Bach, Motown, Stephen Foster, The Postal Service, Damien Jurado & more!) 12 Jul 2013 | 12:17 am
There’s a lot of great new stuff bubbling up through the ether out there. Today, we dig into a few warm-weather months of mailbag offerings to reveal a carefully vetted mid-year set of new and impendi...
Mail Call Coverfolk: New releases from The Deadly Gentlemen, Antje Duvekot, Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker 7 Jul 2013 | 10:50 pm
The mailbag is stuffed to overflowing, so we’ll take the week to dig in, starting with news of three beloved folk artists whose work we’ve covered before. As always, if you like what you hear here (he...
