Reviews in Dirty Linen #143 (September/October '09)

This is a list of reviews from the print edition of Dirty Linen #143 (September/October 2009).
The reviews are in the magazine, available on newsstands, by subscription, and at the Dirty Linen webstore.

Concerts

• MerleFest - Wilkesboro, NC
• The Lost World with Dengue Fever - Castro Theatre, San Fransicso, CA
• Luka Bloom - Baldwin's Station, Sykesville, MD
• The Dead - Shoreline Amphitheater, Mountain View, CA

Recordings

• Moira Smiley & VOCO Circle Square Diamond Flag [MoraMusic (2008)]
• Lila Downs Shake Away [Manhattan 50999 2 28194 2 0 (2008)]
• Liz Carroll & John Doyle Double Play [Compass 7 4502 2 (2009)]
• Bill Cooley The Return Journey [Nancy Lee Music 003 (2009)]
• Kerry Elkin, Danny Noveck, Peter Barnes Soir et Matin [self-released (2008), reissue]
• Fresh Fish Turning of the Tide [self-released (1992), reissue]
• Vishtèn Live [self-released VISH 0308 (2008)]
• Dengue Fever Sleeping Through the Mekong (Original Soundtrack) [M80 (2009)]
• Chumbawamba The Boy Bands Have Won [PM Press/Trade Root Music (2008)]
• Byther Smith Blues on the Moon: Live at Natural Rhythm Social Club [Delmark DE796 (2008)]
• Nanci Griffith The Loving Kind [Rounder 116613264 (2009)]
• Link Davis Big Mamou [Bear Family BCD 16523 AR (2009)]
• Sara Watkins [Nonesuch PRO 40068 (2009)]
• Various artists The Rough Guide to Gypsy Music [Rough Guides/World Music Network RGNET1220CD (2009)]
• Cedar Hill Refugees Pale Imperfect Diamond [Effigy (2009)]
• Stéphanie Makem & Tiarnán Ó Duinnchinn Ceol is Píob [Foras na Gaeilge CB001 (2008)]
• Mike Marshall's Big Trio [Adventure Music AMA1051 2 (2009)]
• Todd Snider The Excitement Plan [Yep Roc (2009)]
• Sometymes Why Your Heart Is a Glorious Machine [Signature Sounds (2009)]
• Allen Toussaint The Bright Mississippi [Nonesuch 480380-2 (2009)]
• Rev. Gary Davis Live at Gerde's Folk City [Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop SGGW114/5/6 (2009)]
• Richard Shindell Not Far Now [Signature Sounds (2009)]
• Snooks Eaglin Baby, You Can Get Your Gun! [Hep Cat HEP 0524-2 (2009), reissue]
• Alan Reid and Rob van Sante The Rise and Fall o' Charlie [RedSands RSCD002 (2009)]
• Alecia Nugent Hillbilly Goddess [Rounder 11661-0612-2 (2009)]
• May Monday Midnight [self-released MMA6327001 (2007)]
• Various artists The Rough Guide to the Music of Mali [World Music Network/Rough Guides RGNET1208PR (2008)]
• Various artists The Rough Guide to Australian Aboriginal Music [World Music Network (2008)]
• Various artists The Rough Guide to Turkish Café [World Music Network RGNET1215PR (2008)]
• Buckwheat Zydeco Lay Your Burden Down [Alligator ALCD4929 (2009)]
• The Essential Early Cajun Recordings of Austin Pitre & the Evangeline Playboys [Swallow SW-6211 (2009)]
• Sonny Landreth Levee Town [Landfall LF-0002 (2009), reissue]
• Zydecosis Zydeco All Night [Vinyl VIN6902 (2009)]
• Buddy Guy The Definitive Buddy Guy [Shout! Factory 826663-11303 (2009)]
• Climax Ceilidh Band Play Five [Beautiful Jo BEJOCD-53 (2008)]
• Jack Hardy & David Massengill - The Folk Brothers Partners in Crime [Great Divide GDSR 1780 (2008)]
• Rod MacDonald After the War [Blue Flute Music (2009)]
• Lowen & Navarro with Phil Parlapiano Learning to Fall [Red Hen EGG 6 (2008)]
• Various artists Keep Your Soul: A Tribute to Doug Sahm [Vanguard 79900-2 (2009)]
• Rhonda Vincent Destination Life [Rounder 11661-0623-2 (2009)]
• Kari Bremnes LY [Kirkelig Kulturverksted FXCD 345 (2009)]
• Lars Bremnes Strayer [Kirkelig Kulturverksted FXCD 339 (2008)]
• Femi Kuti Day by Day [Mercer Street (2008)]
• Various artists The Rough Guide to Afrobeat Revival [Music Rough Guides RGNET1218CD (2009), 2-CD]
• Warren Fahey Australia Folk Songs and Bush Verse: Convict Stain to Shearer's Blades Warren Fahey Volume 1 [ABC Music 1798166 (2009), 5-CD]
• Warren Fahey Australia Folk Songs and Bush Verse: Celebration of a Nation Warren Fahey Volume 2 [ABC Music 1798176 (2009), 5-CD]
• Dailey & Vincent Brothers from Different Mothers [Rounder 11661-0617-2 (2009)]
• Dave Alvin and the Guilty Women [Yep Roc YEP 21551 (2009)]
• Red Stick Ramblers My Suitcase Is Always Packed [Sugar Hill SUG-CD-4053 (2009)]
• Various artists Singing Through the Hard Times: A Tribute to Utah Phillips [Righteous Babe RBR065-D (2009), 2-CD]
• Ian Tyson Yellowhead to Yellowstone and other Love Stories [Stony Plain SPCD1339 (2008)]
• Various artists Classic Protest Songs [Smithsonian Folkways SFW CD 40197 (2009)]
• Malinky Flowers & Iron [Mad River/Greentrax 2008)]
• Pine Leaf Boys Homage au Passé [Lionsgate Music (2008)]
• Tommy Sands with Moya & Fionán Let The Circle Be Wide [Appleseed APR CD 1114 (2009)]
• Pam Gadd Benefit of Doubt [Home Sweet Highway Productions CLG83008 (2009)]
• Vienna Teng Inland Territory [Zoë 01143-1125-2 (2009)]
• Johnny Winter The Johnny Winter Anthology [Shout! Factory 826663-11328 (2009), 2-CD]
• The Defibulators Corn Money [City Salvage (2009)]
• TriBeCaStan Strange Cousin [Evergreen Music 002 (2008)]
• Norman & Nancy Blake, Boys of the Lough, James & Rachel Bryan Rising Fawn Gathering [Plectrafone 824761-040125 (2009)]
• Seamie O'Dowd, Máirtín O'Connor, Cathal Hayden Crossroads [self-released MCSCD001 (2008)]
• Various artists The Rough Guide to Blues Revival [Rough Guides/World Music Network RGNET1204CD (2009)]
• Paul Jones Starting All Over Again [Collectors' Choice Music CCM-2005 (2009)]
• Various artists Clear Water Reflections: Native American & World Flute Music [International Native American Flute Association INAFA (2009)]
• Billy Boy Arnold, John Primer, Billy Branch, Lurrie Bell Chicago Blues: A Living History [Raisin' Music RM1003 (2008)]
• Grateful Dead To Terrapin: Hartford '77 [Grateful Dead Productions/Rhino GRA2-6008 (2009), 3-CD]
• Cedric Burnside & Lightnin' Malcolm 2 Man Wrecking Crew [Delta Groove Music DGPCD127 (2008)]
• Various artists Ritual [Sythian Horn(2008)]
• Brollachan [self-released BROL001 (2008)]
• Michelle Shocked Soul of My Soul [Mighty Sound (2009)]
• Various artists Masters of Piobaireachd: Volume Ten [Greentrax CDTRAX326 (2008)]
• Cyril Neville Brand New Blues [M.C. Records MC 0064 (2009)]
• Conjunto Jardín Yerba Buena [Trova TR 405 (2008)]
• Snowy White's Blues Agency Twice as Addictive [Arena Music/Music Avenue 250229 (2009), 2-CD]
• The Hollyfelds Black Heart Blue [self-released (2009)]
• Various artists Rodentia: The Best of Dark Roots Music [Devil's Ruin DRR014 (2008)]
• Alice Peacock Love Remains [Peacock Music (2009)]
• Natraj Song of the Swan [Galloping Goat GGCD-3425 (2008)]
• Clarence Bucaro 'Til Spring [Twenty Twenty (2008)]
• Terry Kitchen Summer to Snowflakes [Urban Campfire UC 1011 (2009)]
• David Wilcox Open Hand [What Are Records? (2009)]
• Tito Puente Dance Mania [Legacy/RCA (2009), 2-CD]
• The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem in Person at Carnegie Hall: The Complete 1963 Concert [Columbia/Legacy 88697 42571 2 (2009), 2-CD]
• Commander Cody Dopers, Drunks and Everyday Losers [Blind Pig BPCD 5128 (2009)]
• Willie Nile House of a Thousand Guitars [River House (2009)]
• Jesse Winchester Love Filling Station [Appleseed APR CD 116 (2009)]
• John Doe and the Sadies Country Club [Yep Roc CD-YEP-2192 (2009)]
• Rod Clements One Track Mind 2008 [Batsville BATCD02 (2008), reissue]
• Jake Shimabukuro Live [Hitchhike HRCD-1109 (2009)]
• Harry Belafonte 1954-1957 [Frémeaux & Associés FA 5234 (2009), 2-CD]
• Doug MacLeod The Utrecht Sessions [Black & Tan CD B&T032 (2008)]
• Alla Fagra Våta Pussar [Nordic Traditions NTCD14 (2009)]
• New Riders of the Purple Sage Where I Come From [Woodstock Records 0028 (2009)]
• Richard Thompson Walking on a Wire 1968-2009 [Shout! Factory 826663-11087 (2009), 4-CD]

Books

• Brand, Buzz & Success: Your Guide to the New Music Industry by W. Blake Althen [Human Factor (2008); ISBN: 978-0-9816472-0-3; $12.95]
• The Hayloft Gang; The Story of the National Barn Dance Edited by Chad Berry [University of Illinois (2008); ISBN 978-0-252-07557-5; 256pp.; $24.95]
• 78 Blues: Folksongs and Phonographs in the American South by John Minton [University Press of Mississippi (2008); ISBN-978-1-934110-19-5; pp.288; $50]
• Scroll and Curl: An Oldtime Bluegrass Mystery by John Pedersen [Free Fall (2009); ISBN 978-0-915090-31-7; 430 pp; $14.95]
• Mel Bay Presents Irish Music for Fiddle Made Easy by Philip John Berthoud [Mel Bay (2008); MB21354BCD; ISBN 978-078667568-5; 32 pp; w/CD; $14.95]
• Learn to Play Irish Fiddle by Philip John Berthoud [Mel Bay MD20555BCD (2008); ISBN 978-078660778-5; 120pp.; w/2-CD]
• Mel Bay Presents Irish Fiddle Playing Volume 2: A Guide for the Serious Player by Philip John Berthoud [Mel Bay MB99776BCD (2008); ISBN 978-078660752-5; 110 pp; w/CD; $19.95]
• Mel Bay Presents Bodhrán The Basics: A Beginner's Guide to Playing the Bodhrán by Bill Woods [Mel Bay MB21883BCD (2009); ISBN 978-078668004; 24 pp; $14.99; w/CD]
• 2009 Songwriter's Market: Where & How to Market Your Songs Edited by Greg Hatfield [Writer's Digest (2008); ISBN-13: 978-1-58297-547-4; 416 pp; $29.99; 32nd Annual Edition; Completely Revised & Updated]
• Mel Bay Presents Tony Trischka Master Collection of Fiddle Tunes for Banjo by Tony Trischka [Mel Bay (2008); MB99583BCD; ISBN 978-078667631-6; 280 pp; w/2-CD; $34.95]
• Blues Traveling: The Holy Sites of Delta Blues (Updated and Expanded Third Edition) by Steve Cheseborough [University Press of Michigan (2009); ISBN 978-1-60473-124-8; 276 pp; $22.00]

DVDs

• Dengue Fever: Sleeping Through the Mekong [M80 (2009)]
• Byther Smith: Blues on the Moon: Live at Natural Rhythm Social Club [Delmark DVD 1796 (2008)]
• Rory Gallagher Live in Cork [Eagle Vision EV 30268-9 (2009)]
• Paul Simon Live from Philadelphia [Greatest Hits Live GHL 37042-9 (1981), reissue]
• Paul Simon and Friends [Shout! Factory 826663-11327 (2009)]
• Muddy Waters Live at Chicagofest [Shout! Factory/Gravity 826663-11304 (1991), reissue]
• The Guitar Artistry of David Bromberg: Demon in Disguise [Vestapol 13115 (2009)]
• Wijdan [Possible Pictures MO103 (2007); ISBN-794881856794]
• Billie Holiday: The Life and Artistry of Lady Day [Idem Home Video iDVD 1115 (2009)]
• Fillmore: The Last Days [Bill Graham Memorial Foundation/Rhino Entertainment R2 516386 (2009)]
• Johnny Winter Live Through the 70s [MVD Visual MVDV4755 (2008)]
• Alison Krauss: A Hundred Miles or More: Live From the Tracking Room [Rounder 11661-0625-9 (2008)]

This is a list of reviews from the print edition of Dirty Linen #143 (September/October 2009).
The reviews are in the magazine, available on newsstands, by subscription, and at the Dirty Linen webstore.

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