The Songcircle is celebrating June's observance of African-American Music
Appreciation Month (Black Music Month to its friends) with three consecutibe
special episodes spotlighting the genius of Sly Stone and his amazing band
The Family Stone.
In today's installment, we...
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Gary sits in today & plays the music of Alex Chilton as covered by artists
he's influenced.
Image of the star honoring Alex Chilton on the outside mural of the
Minneapolis nightclub First Avenue by Christopher Bahn is licensed under
the Creative Commons Attribution-Share A...
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Today on The Songcircle, we're celebrating Bob Dylan's 83rd birthday with a
long-gestating follow-up to our popular 2022 episode featuring Black artists
saluting Bob's songs. All the material on today's show comes from Bob's
groundbreaking work of the 1960s, though the cove...
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Today we fall under the enchanting spell of one of my favorite subgenres:
'60s folkies with orchestral accompaniment, or what's sometimes referred to
as Baroque Folk. Rather than a scattershot approach, we'll immerse ourselves
in five cherished albums of the period: an orig...
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Inspired by the great new, Portland-connected documentary Lost Angel: The
Genius of Judee Sill, and in celebration of our spring membership drive, The
Songcircle presents a 1972 concert by Sill, followed by a four-song 1971
set by folk-jazz-blues legend Karen Dalton. We fin...
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