256 mixes with tracks by “Karen+Dalton”

From all genres, here are the female musicians & singers who I love and respect the most. I hope you enjoy these 40 fantastic tracks from the likes of Koko Taylor, The Slits, Odetta, and many many others.

May 19, 2012

(this be love)

Blues from the Delta to the Greenwich Village. Featuring Clara Smith, Elizabeth Cotten, and Bridget St. John

songs for a new friend . . .

Traditions new and old, from two different nations, influencing each other or staying an isolated heirloom that remains the same from generation to generation. Here's 42 folk songs recorded from the days of Alan Lomax to today. Including Spencer Moore, Al Tuck, Richie Havens and many others.

folk from all nooks & crannies, wide-open fields, dirty old city streets. mountains & prairies; northeastsouth&west (that's twenty-six songs that deserve your ears).

[photo: r. picking arugula in the garden full of glass]

Seventeen folk songs from the late '60s. A certain idea of the beautiful.
So lay down like Peggy Moffit and let the beautiful invade your space, your body, your soul, your mind.

April showers bring May flowers, and we've lucked out with the weather so far, so we guess it's time for a little bit of ran in the forecast. Here are 11 tracks from artists like Karen Dalton, Bob Dylan and Thurston Moore to help you through these grayer days. Make sure to visit us on Facebook for more: http://www.facebook.com/Gibson202

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Not that it needs saying . . . well, yeah, I guess it does. I love women . . . daughters, mothers, friends, wives, lovers, strangers . . . hell, even ex-wives.