Music from the True Vine: Mike Seeger’s Life & Musical Journey. By Bill C. Malone. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011. pp. xii, 235.)

Review of The Troubles and Their Aftermath: James B. Johnston's Memories of Northern Ireland by James B. Johnson

Review of Parchman Farm: Photographs and Field Recordings, 1947-55

Review of Alexis Zoumbas: A Lament for Epirus, 1926-1928 and Five Days Married & Other Laments: Song and Dance from Northern Greece, 1928-1958

Excerpt: A Other acclaimed masters of the spoken word scheduled to appear at this year’s Festival include David Novak, Minton Sparks, Joseph Bruchac, Milbre Burch, and Jackson Gillman. Each year the Festival seeks to represent storytelling from a range of cultural traditions, and this year is no exception. Rev. Robert Jones and Diane Ferlatte will present stories and music relating African American experience, while Festival attendees may also see and hear performances by Yiddish storyteller Shonaleigh, Chinese American storyteller and musician Charlie Chin, and Brazilian performance artist Antonio Rocha. Several special events will be held in Anyone who shares an appreciation for A the telling of stories should note that the world’s oldest and largest festival dedicated to celebrating that ancient art will take place a short drive from western North Carolina on October 4-6, 2013.

Excerpt: James Still (1906-2001) wrote “Heritage,” his signature poem, in 1935, and he continued to read it before audiences large and small into the 21st Century.

Arlo Guthrie: The Warner/Reprise Years. By Hank Reineke. (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2012. Pp. xix + 327, series editor's foreword, preface, acknowledgments, discography, bibliography, index, 11 photographs, three illustrations.)

Review of Jazz: The Smithsonian Anthology

Review of Vibrant, Playful, Beautiful, and Emotionally Charged: Two Box Sets of African-American Gospel Music [Fire in My Bones: Raw + Rare + Other-worldly African-American Gospel, 1944-2007 and This May Be My Last Time Singing: Raw African-American Gospel on 45 RPM, 1957-1982]

Review of Fiona Ritchie and Doug Orr: Wayfaring Strangers: The Musical Voyage from Scotland and Ulster to Appalachia