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It reached No. 22 on the Americana Music Association radio chart during the week of February 7, 2011. [5] The album was also ranked No. 3 for the month of January 2011 on the Folk DJ-L radio chart. The most played tracks included "Cakalack!" and "I Was An Oak Tree". [6] The album also reached No. 1 on the Roots Music Report "Top 50 Folk" chart. [7]
Jim Blum is a folk music DJ on WKSU in Kent, Ohio, where he has produced shows for over 25 years in addition to producing shows for Internet radio Folk Alley since its inception in 2003. [1] Blum is also heavily involved with the Kent State Folk Festival. Blum got his start as the host of an hour-long bluegrass show on WKSU.
Culture writer Martin Chilton defines the term "Great American Songbook" as follows: "Tunes of Broadway musical theatre, Hollywood movie musicals and Tin Pan Alley (the hub of songwriting that was the music publishers' row on New York's West 28th Street)". Chilton adds that these songs "became the core repertoire of jazz musicians" during the ...
The group released their self-titled debut disc The Womack Family Band on September 15 of the same year, at the Winchester Music Hall (Lakewood, OH). [5] The debut record consisted of 15 songs, written by Noah and Haley Heyman, and Tony Schaffer, the group's three primary songwriters, [ 6 ] and included songs like "When The Winter Breaks ...
Ungar was born in the Bronx, New York City. [2] He frequented Greenwich Village music venues during his formative period in the 1960s. In the late 1960s, he became a member of Cat Mother and the All Night News Boys and later, the Putnam String County Band.
The Book of World-Famous Music: Classical, Popular, and Folk. Dover Publications (2000). Waltz, Robert B; David G. Engle. "The Red River Valley". The Traditional Ballad Index: An Annotated Bibliography of the Folk Songs of the English-Speaking World. Hosted by California State University, Fresno, Folklore, 2007.
In Folk Alley, Henry Carrigan said, "Listening to David Bromberg and his band's Big Road is like driving on the open road with the windows down, letting the breezes of various musical styles wash over you.... Multi-instrumentalist Bromberg knows how to have fun playing music, and he gives each of [his] band members a chance to drive the music ...
NPR's Folk Alley included Real Midnight in their top 10 favorite albums of the year, coming in at #6; [17] and it also landed #1 on Josh Hurst's All For The Sake of the Song's Favorite Albums of 2016 list.