In 1991 I left Nova Scotia and was in Boston again, becoming a librarian. Between 1992 and 2005, in Lexington VA, I bought a lot CDs. See Turkish and Greek; lots of Scandinavian; lots of British Isles; lots of baroque and earlier.
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Many more could be added to this gallery of discoveries of the last 20 years:
Mike Marshall Gator Strut
Mike Seeger lived just up Brushy Hill from us, and I eventually became sort of a friend (thanks to his wife Alexia). Hard to be casual with somebody whom one has idolized forEVER, but he was graciousness itself. Here's one of the hundred-odd most favorite of his tunes: Whoopin Up Cattle
Scandinavian neo-Pagan Folk
Hedningarna and Garmarna
Vlatko Stefanovski and Miroslav Tadic
Renaud Garcia-Fons
Trio Medieval (continuing my fascination with Scandinavian and vocal musics)
David Lindley
Richard Thompson
Vincent Black Lightning
Christy Moore
Ale Carr
Gillian Welch and David Rawlings
and here's Daniel Heikalo, playing the cittern I built and gave to him:
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Since retirement to Maine in 2005, I've accumulated vast holdings of MP3s, but continued to buy CDs as irresistable material came to my attention
Jonas Hellborg
Tim Minchin
Amanda Palmer
Warren Zevon
Yamandu Costa
Molly Tuttle
Radie Peat and Lankum
A trip to Turkey in 2013 (a week-long workshop in Turkish cooking and food photography) was a fitting climax to my long-time fascination with Turkish music
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radio: WFMU and particularly Secret Museum of the Air with Citizen Kafka and Pat Conte (archives 2000-2002)
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Fahey: I've been reading Dance of Death: The Life of John Fahey, American Guitarist, horrified at what a dumpster fire his life was. Further: The Saga of John Fahey: In Search of Blind Joe Death (...earnestness needed a bit of sending up...)
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some covers and other documents:
Kinky Friedman
My Shit's Fucked Up
Fauxgrass Clinch Mountain
Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau - Scarlet Town
Wildwood Flower
Paco de Lucia, John McLaughlin, Larry Coryell
Billy Strings channels Doc Watson:
Hazmat Modine
Hiromi Uehara
Buckdance:
Verbunk
Rajastan
Bharatanatyam
Irish
Gangnam Style
Georgian
Hellzapoppin'
Andrews Sisters
My Corona
Pandemic times (1918) (turn on CC in YouTube Options for translation)
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