Dreamers Rise

The revered British folksinger Norma Waterson has died. The Guardian has an obituary and a nice appreciation . Though she recorded contem...

Charles Wesley, one of the founding fathers of Methodism, is said to have penned some 6,500 hymns, among them "Hark, the Herald Ange...

Mike Waterson's songs on Bright Phoebus, like the title track or "Rubber Band," which contains such whimsical lines as ...

A beautiful, melancholy song with a sinister twist of child sacrifice in the third verse, "The Scarecrow" first appeared on an LP ...

With a few notable exceptions so-called "holiday music" tends to make me cringe. If I'm trapped in a department store in Decem...