Welcome, Olive! March 26, 2008
Posted by jean in : No music content , add a commentOur granddaughter Olive entered this world on March 19, 2008. Isn’t she wonderful?
America’s Music: Shared Song, Communal Memory February 14, 2008
Posted by jean in : Folk community, Jean's Rambles radio , add a commentFrom the NY Times: America’s Music: Shared Song, Communal Memory.
It’s time to bring the music back to the living room.
Interview with Bernice Johnson Reagon
Posted by jean in : Folk community, Jean's Rambles radio , add a commentThat’s what capitalism does. They find out what you need, separate you from it, and then make you buy it.
There’s a good interview with Bernice Johnson Reagon at the Everything Jersey website today.
From Rosalie Sorrels at FAR-West November 5, 2007
Posted by jean in : Folk community, Jean's Rambles radio , add a commentPeople make fun of the sixties…but we almost won. And we can do it again. The songs can make it happen.
Rosalie Sorrels
Best of the West Award remarks
Folk Alliance Region - West Conference
http://www.far-west.org/
I’m walking 26.2 miles for a cause August 30, 2007
Posted by jean in : Jean's Rambles radio, No music content , add a commentHowdy folks,
If you’re feeling that you’d like to make a contribution to the Komen Foundation in support of their search for a cure for breast cancer, please visit my Walking 26.2 Miles for a Cause web page, or go directly to my fundraising page.
Thanks!
Where in the world are you? July 9, 2007
Posted by jean in : Jean's Rambles radio , add a commentHere are the geographical statistics for Jean’s Rambles over the last 30 days, listing only the top five countries:
| Country | Streams | TLH |
| United States | 283 | 443:54 |
| Japan | 109 | 174:23 |
| France | 19 | 26:08 |
| United Kingdom | 11 | 12:58 |
| Brazil | 8 | 12:23 |
Streams = times station was launched, TLH = Total Listening Hours.
Thanks to all and, how’s it going, Japan?
XM Satellite Radio folk programming June 27, 2007
Posted by jean in : Jean's Rambles radio, Other broadcasts, Trad resources , add a commentI subscribed to XM for its folk programming perhaps three years ago and I have not been disappointed. There is one channel, 15 (”The Village”) devoted to folk, one, 14 (”Bluegrass Junction”), to bluegrass, and Celtic and other folk music can be found scattered around the other channels. For St Patrick’s Day, XM devoted 4 days’ programming to Irish music, and, sure, there were some slick maudlin ballads and raucous pub songs in the mix, but largely one great trad tune followed another, interrupted only by greetings to the US from folks in different parts of Ireland. It was pure joy.
Last Saturday I was listening to the Village on XM while on a long walk (I have a Pioneer Inno portable player and I’m training to walk the Portland Marathon in October) and for over two hours the programming went like this: a song by its singer-songwriter author or a song identified with a particular artist followed by another’s intepretation of the same song. So, Bob Dylan’s Tambourine Man followed by Judy Collins’s Tambourine Man, and so on. I made a note of some songs to play for you, including Both Sides the Tweed by the wonderful Dick Gaughan and The Song Will Remain by Steeleye Span, which I have added to the playlist. I ordered a couple CDs from Scotland by a group called the Sangsters and, when they arrive, I will play Some Kind of Love for you.
I plan to start suggesting other broadcasts for your folk music listening pleasure as Internet radio broadcasts are in jeopardy right now (see http://www.savenetradio.org/ for more) and it’s hard to tell how long my stream will be around. It’s ironic in a way–we individual Live365 broadcasters gladly pay for the honor of sharing the music we love with our listeners and I believe that that playing something that you like and would be unlikely to hear without Live365 can only benefit the artists and the genre. We use Live365 because the service manages the royalties to the artists–we don’t ignore our ethics and make tracks available via peer-to-peer sharing. Still, it doesn’t seem to be enough for the record industry. CD sales are plummeting and amateur microscopic broadcasters such as myself might actually help to reverse that trend, but no.
When my life is over and I ne’er see you again
The singer may die but the song will remain
Why Jean Folk? November 17, 2006
Posted by jean in : Jean's Rambles radio , add a commentOkay, I’ll confess: my family name is not “Folk.” I fortunately became immersed in folk music at a very young age and have held it dear to me throughout my life, as you can glimpse in my story Pete and Me. But I didn’t give myself the name “Jean Folk.” When I was 19 and at work as a telephone operator in Hermosa Beach, California, I was seated next to a friend one day when she put through a collect call (this was a long time ago) from a Jean Folk. “Jean Folk!” she said after pulling back the key to mute her voice on the call, “That ought to be your name!”
So here we are. Thanks for being on this journey with me.
