America's Education System Teaches "How to Become a Serf"
The Market Oracle - May 19, 2012
People have become nothing but the monkeys of hurdy gurdy grinders, tethered to grinders' organs with tin cups in hands to be filled for the benefit of the grinders. And this is the species we refer to as sapient. What a delusion!
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Albert Pujols Angels Walkup Music (in a perfect world)
Halo's Heaven - May 19, 2012
Albert Pujols is the Hurdy Gurdy Man. Here he comes singing songs of love. Nothing sums the greatest batter of his generation more than that simple phrase. Instead of the Hippy Duppy Donovan original, the 1970 Eartha Kitt cover of this classic has just
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Dorisie Lowe creates, repairs, remodels
Appalachian News-Express - May 19, 2012
One of Dorisie's next projects is going to be a hurdy gurdy. He He has already made two steel guitars. One is in the shop — he's Dorisie plays the steel guitar, organ, violin and dobro. “I haven't seen a stringed instrument I can't play a tune on,” he
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Dr. Dog: Be the Void
PopMatters - May 19, 2012
Those who accuse the band of being stuck in their ways should skip straight to the ferocious “Warrior Man,” surprisingly spot-on send up of Kinks-ian folk rock (think T-Rex covering Donovan's “Hurdy Gurdy Man”). Leaman even adopts a faux English accent
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Winterreise, Mark Padmore/Paul Lewis, Wigmore Hall - review
Evening Standard - May 19, 2012
When Padmore confronted the hurdy-gurdy man in the final song, and Lewis tapped out his insidiously simple tune, the entire hall seemed suspended in an eerie collective hallucination. Details are correct at the time of publication - please check with
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Le Vent du Nord will kick it up in Portland
Lewiston Sun Journal - May 19, 2012
PORTLAND — The Quebecois band Le Vent du Nord, known for bringing audiences to their feet with its lively fiddle and hurdy-gurdy music, will perform Friday, Feb. 10, at One Longfellow Square. Among the group's strengths is its energetic stage presence
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Core Bites: Lauren Pelon to perform at BRCC
BlueRidgeNow.com - May 19, 2012
Pelon will perform music from the first to the 21st centuries on lute, guitar, lyre, recorders, gemshorns, cornamuse, krummhorn, schreierpfeife, shawm, rackett, psalteries, pennywhistles, psalmodikon, concertina, ocarina, hurdy-gurdy, doucaine,
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Irish musician Andy Irvine, Robert Sarazin Blake perform Feb. 4 at YWCA ballroom
Bellingham Herald - May 19, 2012
Among the instruments that Irvine plays are mandolin, bouzouki, harmonica and hurdy-gurdy. Advance tickets, $20, are recommended and are available at The Mill, Community Food Co-op and online at Brown Paper Tickets. 2 feb t5 1.
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NAMM 2012: Visiting the Gibson Booth
Gibson - May 19, 2012
This was the very instrument that he used to write hits including “Sunshine Superman,” “Mellow Yellow” and “Hurdy Gurdy Man.” One of my favorite NAMM sightings was the SG with Floyd Rose. Everything you always loved about an SG – dual humbuckers,
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MILLER: Even in 2012, the Grammys are still getting it wrong
Odessa American - May 19, 2012
Any band that needs to use a xylophone, glockenspiel and hurdy-gurdy for their sound isn't talented; they need a gimmick to sell. Hipster nation, if your band won this award, then that makes them mainstream. And hipsters aren't supposed to like main
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