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<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 17:41:48 PDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ HearthPR&nbsp;is so proud to be working with venerable record label Smithsonian Folkways to promote their 10th and final album in the Music of Central Asia series. Featuring master Chinese musician Wu&nbsp;Man in an unprecedented collaboration with Muslim Uyghur musicians from Northern China, music scholars from Tajikistan and the rarely heard songs of the Hui Muslims, this album is a brave, visio &nbsp;<a href="http://www.hearthmusic.com/blog/hearthpr-smithsonian-folkways-central-asia-vol-10-wu-man.html">[&#8230;read more]</a>]]></description>
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<item><title><![CDATA[Inside the Songs: Ben Fisher&#039;s Long, Dark Winter]]></title>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 02:19:58 PDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ 

Seattle songwriter and busker Ben Fisher has the same kind of starry-eyed enthusiasm a young Dylan must have had around his heroes like Woody Guthrie. I've seen him at shows in Seattle, his focus 100% on the stage where one of his music friends or companions is laying it down. He attends shows almost as much as he plays them, and though he's one of the most recognized characters in our Seattle &nbsp;<a href="http://www.hearthmusic.com/blog/inside-the-songs-ben-fishers-long-dark-winter.html">[&#8230;read more]</a>]]></description>
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<item><title><![CDATA[New Favorites: Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker]]></title>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 20:05:21 PDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ We've been waiting to post this review for a while, but with rain pouring down on our roof in Seattle and a roaring fire in the hearth, there's no better time for some deep, dark British folk music.

Josienne Clarke &amp;&nbsp;Ben Walker. The Seas are Dead.
2012. self-released.

It's no secret that British folk traditions laid the groundwork for all the Southern music we've come to love. The  &nbsp;<a href="http://www.hearthmusic.com/blog/new-favorites-josienne-clarke--ben-walker.html">[&#8230;read more]</a>]]></description>
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<item><title><![CDATA[CD Review: The Hunger Games Goes Deep into Appalachian Americana]]></title>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 20:44:36 PDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Looks like we're the first on No Depression to review the new soundtrack to the hit Hollywood movie, The Hunger Games. Sure, we've all been hearing about it, especially the much ballyhooed Taylor Swift/Civil Wars collaboration and the production by Americana icon T-Bone Burnett, but the album itself is a musical wonderland. Burnett's off the leash with this one, gleefully quoting Appalachian trope &nbsp;<a href="http://www.hearthmusic.com/blog/cd-review-the-hunger-games-goes-deep-into-appalachian-americana.html">[&#8230;read more]</a>]]></description>
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<item><title><![CDATA[Guest Blog: Roots Music in Portland, Maine]]></title>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 18:56:52 PDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ We've got a special guest blog today from travel writer Melissa Rae Cohen, writing all the way from Portland, Maine, about the great roots music in her hometown!
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Hearth&nbsp;Music Guest Blog:&nbsp;Roots Music in Portland, ME
by Melissa Rae Cohen

I grew up in a very musical environment. My father and grandfather used to sit at the foot of my bed crooning Tex Ritter&rsquo;s &quot;Bloo &nbsp;<a href="http://www.hearthmusic.com/blog/guest-blog-roots-music-in-portland-maine.html">[&#8230;read more]</a>]]></description>
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<item><title><![CDATA[HearthPR: The Two Man Gentlemen Band]]></title>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 19:12:09 PDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ At HearthPR, in the temperamental climate of the Seattle, we've been having 80&ordm; -pool-party-with-palm-trees-and-cocktails kind of days here in our office, thanks to The Two Man Gentlemen Band's newest album Two at a Time. &nbsp;Channeling the mod, swinging lifestyle of 1950s Southern California, tenor guitarist Andy Bean and string bassist Fuller Condon are irreverent songwriters, expert inst &nbsp;<a href="http://www.hearthmusic.com/blog/hearthpr-the-two-man-gentlemen-band.html">[&#8230;read more]</a>]]></description>
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<item><title><![CDATA[CD Review: Rory Block&#039;s Memories of Rev. Gary Davis]]></title>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 19:10:44 PDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ There&rsquo;s something deeply triumphant about the new album from veteran country blues singer Rory Block, and what&rsquo;s strange is that I&rsquo;m not sure why this is. I Belong to the Band, released May 29 on Stony Plain Records, should be a simple album of covers of Reverend Gary Davis, the fabled blues/gospel shouter made famous in the 60s/70s folk revival. But there&rsquo;s something deepe &nbsp;<a href="http://www.hearthmusic.com/blog/cd-review-rory-blocks-memories-of-rev-gary-davis.html">[&#8230;read more]</a>]]></description>
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<item><title><![CDATA[Straight-Up Folk: Reed Foehl, David Newberry, Anna Coogan]]></title>
<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 15:40:08 PDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ I get so focused on my own version of folk music (fiddles, banjos, and songs written centuries ago by nameless poets), that I tend to forget that folk music for most people actually refers to a more modern vision of acoustic troubadours. So in honor of this world of folk, here are three artists that have been catching our ears recently.

Reed Foehl:&nbsp;Once an Ocean
2011 re-release. Neverfoeh &nbsp;<a href="http://www.hearthmusic.com/blog/straightup-folk-reed-foehl-david-newberry-anna-coogan.html">[&#8230;read more]</a>]]></description>
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<item><title><![CDATA[HearthPR: Woody Pines&#039; new roots music EP]]></title>
<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 16:27:06 PDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Over at HearthPR headquarters, we're very excited to be promoting the new EP from roots musician Woody Pines. We've been watching Woody since he was in the Kitchen Syncopators, a legendary busking street jugband from Eugene, OR, that were the shining lights of the West Coast folk scene. They broke up some years ago, and Woody Pines went off to a great solo career interpreting his vision of America &nbsp;<a href="http://www.hearthmusic.com/blog/hearthpr-woody-pines-new-roots-music-ep.html">[&#8230;read more]</a>]]></description>
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<item><title><![CDATA[Little Black Train Hit the Rails!]]></title>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 23:57:31 PDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ 

On their new album, Barn Dance, California roots trio Little Black Train are happy to chug along through the verdant pastures of American roots music. They stop at various way stations to explore songs like hokum number &quot;Old Black Dog&quot;, the gospel shouter &quot;Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down&quot;, and Western ode &quot;The Bravest Cowboy&quot;. Throughout they pick hard and hot,  &nbsp;<a href="http://www.hearthmusic.com/blog/little-black-train-hit-the-rails.html">[&#8230;read more]</a>]]></description>
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