Recently I have listened to a Country radio show by Bob Harris from the BBC. The second song of this show was the song Wasting my Time by Zoe Muth, a nice song which also includes a great mandolin part. This song is also available on Zoe Muth’s myspace page (see below). In the meantime …
Accidentally I have found a drawing of Wu Man, the chinese pipa player and some other musicians from a concert of the Silk Road Project, by Cindy Woods. Cindy Woods died from cancer in Nov. 2008. In her last years she has published almost 2000 drawings in her flickr photo strean and in her blog …
Cindy Woods – Drawings of Musicians – Bluegrass, Mandolin, Guitar, … Read More »
I heard some tracks from Penelope Houston’s CD Cut You in a local independent radio station many years ago. The voice of Penelope Houston, and the arrangements with autoharp and also mandolin in several tracks made my buy this CD, and since then I have listened to it now and then. There are some youtube …
I have recently discovered Regina Spektor when the cellist of her band Daniel Cho was tragically drowned before a concert in Montreux, Switzerland. Regina Spektor grew up in Moskow where she began to play the piano. When she was 9 they emmigrated to the USA. Regina has studied the piano and composition, and she began …
Regina Spektor – Great Voice, Great Songs – Three Concerts at NPR Read More »