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To: Liberty Valance
Ah. Still available on Amazon for $7.25. Worth the price if you enjoy contemporary female folk.

Seventy-five Septembers is Cheryl Wheeler's very nice tribute song to her grandmother (I know about Wheeler's sexual orientation).

Dar Williams is the Dar Williams who will later become famous, and still be barefoot and then go all Mary Chapin Carpeter "Somebody Feed Me" large on us - which offended people for some reason, but anyway the song's about how Christians and pagans aren't all that different. Riiiiiight. The solstice, so Amber called her uncle. Gee. When Christians sit with pagans only pumpkin pies are burning.

Catie Curtis and Susan Werner - my kids grew up loving Werner's "Last of the Good, Straight Girls" from the CD of the same name ("gone the days of the corduroy jumpers and your birthday string of pearls"), but Werner's agnostic gospel CD is . . . interesting.

Tish Honojosa is, on the CD and still is, an absolute angel - and in some twisted way, through a sampler CD playing in a Cambridge funky shop while my youngest was looking at jewelry, she led me to Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez, for which I'll always be grateful. And, Chip Taylor is John Voight's brother. Who knew?

104 posted on 11/21/2014 4:44:12 PM PST by Scoutmaster (Opinions don't affect facts. But facts should affect opinions, and do, if you're rational)
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To: Scoutmaster
I know most of the people you're talking about. Tish is a sweetheart. Chip Taylor and Carrie Rodriguez "Sweet Tequila Blues" is a favorite of mine. The songwriting talent at the festival is what draws me back every year. I don't attend some nights because i've seen some of the artists 5 or 6 times. My sister is a software engineer/songwriter, guitar banjo and mandolin player in Austin. She comes every year as well. She's won some awards in the newfolk songwriting contests at KFF. I just play well enough to keep the tune handy. ;o) Lost my wife to cancer back in July so don't know if i can handle all the memories we had together there for this next season at KFF. Bittersweet.

Tish Hinojosa - In The Real West

105 posted on 11/21/2014 5:05:10 PM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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