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City Life, Public Service Announcement Sep 11, 2020
Readings, livestreams, and drunk farmers

Upcoming events and distractions from our listings coordinator
- By Salem Collo-Julin
- Tags: Public Service Announcement, listings, events, livestream, online, concerts, performance art, puppets, Ohmme, Richard Thompson, Gordon Lightfoot, karaoke, The Hideout, Constellation, ACRE Residency, ACRE Projects, LVL3 Gallery, Wicker Park, Wisconsin, Melkbelly, Old Town School of Folk Music

Music, Concert Preview Nov 29, 2018
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Folk rock pioneer Richard Thompson sings more about mortality and loss
- By Bill Meyer
- Tags: Concert Preview, Richard Thompson, Richard Thompson Electric Trio, 13 Rivers, Recommended, Video

Music, Music Feature Nov 29, 2017
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Gifts that sing—are you listening?

The year’s best box sets include 11 CDs from David Bowie’s Berlin period, 529 tracks of vintage country from Louisiana Hayride, Roland Kayn’s 14-hour electronic masterwork, and the most complete portrait yet of Hüsker Dü’s early years.
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: Music Feature, David Bowie, A New Career in a New Town (1977-1982), Parlophone, Bob Dylan, Trouble No More: The Bootleg Series Vol. 13/1979-1981, Columbia, Legacy, Fairport Convention, Come All Ye: The First Ten Years, UME, Hüsker Dü, Savage Young Dü, Numero Group, Roland Kayn, A Little Electronic Milky Way of Sound, Frozen Reeds, Stack Waddy, So Who the Hell Is Stack Waddy? The Complete Works 1970-1972, Cherry Red, American Epic: The Collection, Legacy, At the Louisiana Hayride Tonight . . ., Bear Family, Atlantic Rock & Roll Series, Stateside, Atlantic, Teddy Wilson, Classic Brunswick and Columbia Teddy Wilson Sessions 1934-1942, Mosaic, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Gene Krupa, Lena Horne, Ella Fitzgerald, Loren Schoenberg, Johnny Hodges, Cootie Williams, Harry Carney, Ben Webster, Ray Charles, Big Joe Turner, Ruth Brown, Clyde McPhatter, LaVern Baker, Ivory Joe Hunter, Shreveport Municipal Auditorium, KWKH, Grand Ole Opry, National Barn Dance, Elvis Presley, Hank Williams, Horace Logan, George Jones, Ernest Tubb, Kitty Wells, Faron Young, Roy Acuff, Johnny Cash, Rose Maddox, Webb Pierce, June Carter, Bernard MacMahon, Allison McGourty, Duke Erikson, Elijah Wald, Nick Bergh, Leadbelly, Robert Johnson, Dock Boggs, Jimmie Rodgers, Harry Smith, Anthology of American Folk Music, Roots n’ Blues: The Retrospective 1925-1950, Steve Albini, Byron Coley, Dr. Feelgood, Count Bishops, John Knail, John Peel, Dandelion, Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza, cybernetics, jazz, roots, Terry Katzman, Grant Hart, Bob Mould, Land Speed Record, Zen Arcade, Metal Circus, Everything Falls Apart, Erin Osmon, Andrew Batt, Richard Thompson, Slow Train Coming, Saved, Shot of Love, The Basement Tapes, Amanda Petrusich, Ben Rollins, Trouble No More: A Musical Film, Spooner Oldham, Fred Tackett, Jim Keltner, Clydie King, Regina McCrary, Brian Eno, Berlin period, Low, “Heroes”, Lodger, Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps), Oblique Strategies, Peter Schmidt, Tony Visconti, Stage, In Bertolt Brecht’s Baal, Sound and Vision, Fashion, Ashes to Ashes, Video

Music, Music Feature Jun 27, 2017
Video
Consummate sideman James Elkington takes the reins—but loosely

These days the former Zincs leader plays with Joan Shelley, Tweedy, Brokeback, Eleventh Dream Day, and more—and the new Wintres Woma, his first album under his own name, won’t change that.
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: Music Feature, James Elkington, Jim Elkington, Wintres Woma, Paradise of Bachelors, Zincs, Horse’s Ha, Janet Bean, Nick Macri, Nathan Salsburg, Eleventh Dream Day, Mark Greenberg, Brokeback, DADGAD, Davey Graham, Ohmme, Macie Stewart, Tim Daisy, Tomeka Reid, Christopher Smith, Brendan Greaves, Joan Shelley, Steve Gunn, Tweedy, Jeff Tweedy, Darin Gray, Wilco, the Loft, Waterdrawn, Black Pompadour, Kelly Hogan, Michael Chapman, Laetitia Sadier, Wooden Wand, Daughn Gibson, Tara Jane O’Neil, Richard Thompson, Silencio, Bert Jansch, Video

Blogs, Bleader Apr 29, 2014
More summer concert news: City announces Downtown Sound lineup

The lineup for the wildly popular Millennium Park concert series is revealed.
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: Music, Post No Bills, Downtown Sound, Millennium Park, Pritzker Pavilion, Russian Circles, Colin Stetson, Richard Thompson, Omar Souleyman, Robbie Fulks, Maps & Atlases, Pillars & Tongues, Noura Mint Seymali, Wooden Shjips, Joe Pug, Ted Sirota's Heavyweight Dub, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Bob Mould, Split Single, My Brightest Diamond, White Mystery

Music, Music Review Aug 12, 2013
When folk music loses touch with "folks"

The old weird America is gone, but on the new Waterdrawn the Horse's Ha shows that hippies are just as scary.
- By Noah Berlatsky
- Tags: Music Review, The Horse's Ha, folk music, rootless cosmopolitan, acoustic instruments, Davy Graham, Shirley Collins, past, John Ashbery, present, appropriation, rootless cosmopolitanism, Janet Bean, Jim Elkington, freak folk, Bob Dylan, Greil Marcus, Kingston Trio, Richard Thompson, Sandy Denny, ritualization, archaic communities, premodern communities, marginalized communities, poor communities, rural milieu, working-class milieu, circle of reference, decadent delegitimization, circle of reference, modernity, Bourgeoisie, songs, folk revival, authenticity, commodification, songs, poetry, self-reference, despair, failure, parody, The Wicker Man, atavism, atavism once removed, dislocation, folkways, standardization, Fluff and Gravy Records, albums, records

Blogs, Bleader Jun 10, 2013
Jukebox update: Koko Taylor, Vybz Kartel, Mikal Cronin, and more

Our latest round of staff picks for the Reader's Interactive Jukebox (jukebox.chicagoreader.com)
- By Tosten Burks
- Tags: Jukebox, Music, Jukebox Update, Spotify, the Fresh & Onlys, Broadcast, Mikal Cronin, Steve Goodman, Steam, Richard Thompson, Black 47, the Dream Syndicate, Firehose, Vybz Kartel, Arrington De Dionyso's Malaikat Dan Singa, Oblivians, Dirtbombs, the Dogmatics, Howard Tate, Koko Taylor, Willie Dixon, Mudhoney, Harry Nilsson, Sparks, Blu, the Hush Sound

Blogs, Bleader May 6, 2013
Video
12 O'Clock Track: John Martyn's grizzled-man folk jam "Over the Hill"

A particularly poignant track from the singer-songwriter's 1973 folk-jazz hallmark, Solid Air
- By Tal Rosenberg
- Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Apropos of Nothing, Music, 12 O'Clock Track, John Martyn, Solid Air, Over the Hill, Richard Thompson, folk music, Video

Blogs, Bleader Sep 17, 2012
Shows to see: Obituary, Devin Townsend, David Byrne & St. Vincent, Big Business

Soundboard picks from the next three days include several flavors of metal and whatever David Byrne & St. Vincent's collaboration is
- By Philip Montoro
- Tags: Do This, Music, Obituary, Devin Townsend, David Byrne and St. Vincent, Big Business, Bob Log III, Richard Thompson, GZA, Killer Mike, live music, concert listings

Blogs, Bleader Nov 4, 2010
This Week in Reader Music

The best 1900s album yet, a comprehensive guide to the Umbrella Music Festival, and more
- By Miles Raymer
- Tags: Crickets, Music, Lil Wayne, Chicago, Chicago Reader, Sharp Darts, Gossip Wolf, Photo Pit, the List, Umbrella Music Festival, the 1900s, Nile, Watain, Richard Thompson, Sharon van Etten

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Readings, livestreams, and drunk farmers

Upcoming events and distractions from our listings coordinator

Recommended Video
Folk rock pioneer Richard Thompson sings more about mortality and loss

Video
Gifts that sing—are you listening?

The year’s best box sets include 11 CDs from David Bowie’s Berlin period, 529 tracks of vintage country from Louisiana Hayride, Roland Kayn’s 14-hour electronic masterwork, and the most complete portrait yet of Hüsker Dü’s early years.

Video
Consummate sideman James Elkington takes the reins—but loosely

These days the former Zincs leader plays with Joan Shelley, Tweedy, Brokeback, Eleventh Dream Day, and more—and the new Wintres Woma, his first album under his own name, won’t change that.

More summer concert news: City announces Downtown Sound lineup

The lineup for the wildly popular Millennium Park concert series is revealed.

When folk music loses touch with "folks"

The old weird America is gone, but on the new Waterdrawn the Horse's Ha shows that hippies are just as scary.

Jukebox update: Koko Taylor, Vybz Kartel, Mikal Cronin, and more

Our latest round of staff picks for the Reader's Interactive Jukebox (jukebox.chicagoreader.com)

Video
12 O'Clock Track: John Martyn's grizzled-man folk jam "Over the Hill"

A particularly poignant track from the singer-songwriter's 1973 folk-jazz hallmark, Solid Air

Shows to see: Obituary, Devin Townsend, David Byrne & St. Vincent, Big Business

Soundboard picks from the next three days include several flavors of metal and whatever David Byrne & St. Vincent's collaboration is

This Week in Reader Music

The best 1900s album yet, a comprehensive guide to the Umbrella Music Festival, and more

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Upcoming events and distractions from our listings coordinator

The year’s best box sets include 11 CDs from David Bowie’s Berlin period, 529 tracks of vintage country from Louisiana Hayride, Roland Kayn’s 14-hour electronic masterwork, and the most complete portrait yet of Hüsker Dü’s early years.

These days the former Zincs leader plays with Joan Shelley, Tweedy, Brokeback, Eleventh Dream Day, and more—and the new Wintres Woma, his first album under his own name, won’t change that.

The lineup for the wildly popular Millennium Park concert series is revealed.

The old weird America is gone, but on the new Waterdrawn the Horse's Ha shows that hippies are just as scary.

Our latest round of staff picks for the Reader's Interactive Jukebox (jukebox.chicagoreader.com)

A particularly poignant track from the singer-songwriter's 1973 folk-jazz hallmark, Solid Air

Soundboard picks from the next three days include several flavors of metal and whatever David Byrne & St. Vincent's collaboration is

The best 1900s album yet, a comprehensive guide to the Umbrella Music Festival, and more

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