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Category Archives: Folk Music
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Another Caribou Show’s Coming
Here comes another Caribou show… Saturday, Sept. 15, Caribou Coffee, 3835 W. Old Shakopee Road. 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Be there if you can. If you can’t, don’t be there.
Posted in Folk Music, Rock and Roll
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Two Photos, Two Angles, A Single Instant
Kirk Anderson snapped this photo of me playing a song at Caribou coffee yesterday. And my girlfriend Tammy snapped this one with her phone. The two images seems to have been snapped at precisely the same moment. It’s not as … Continue reading
Posted in Folk Music, Rock and Roll, Uncategorized, Visual Arts
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Kev’s Top 11 for ’11
These are my picks for top albums of the year. I’d be happy to hear yours. 1.) Ryan Adams: “Ashes & Fire” 2. ) Adele: “21″ 3.) Tony Bennett: “Duets II” 4.) Blitzen Trapper: “American Goldwing” 4.) Yo-Yo Ma: “The … Continue reading
Posted in Classical Music, Folk Music, Popular Culture, Rock and Roll
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Otis Redding Lives
… and he has returned as a woman. Fantastic.
Posted in Folk Music, Rock and Roll, Video
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The Day Elvis Died…
…I was walking through a patch of woods in Northern Wisconsin, coming out on a trail that emptied out onto a dirt road where there was a trailer house. My grandpa had once lived on that lot. The trailer house … Continue reading
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Wildflowers
This music video is the product of a September 2010 reunion after 18 years between Kevin Featherly and his old friend Vince Kern. It’s also my first run at editing with Final Cut Pro X. In the background, the great … Continue reading
Posted in Folk Music, Popular Culture, Video, Visual Arts
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Glory Days
This was my first brush with the disappointments of fame. After my college newspaper, The UW-Eau Claire Spectator, ran this image in 1987, I was approached by not one prospective groupie. The original caption read: Folk-rock combo Envelopment, a band … Continue reading
Posted in Folk Music, Rock and Roll
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