Dirty Linen

This is an excerpt from the print edition of Dirty Linen #119 (August/September 2005).
The full article is in the magazine, available on newsstands, by subscription, and at the Dirty Linen webstore.

Tossing Out the Fish

News

compiled by Jim Lee

Read the magazine for details on these news items!

PEOPLE

Boiled in Lead new lineup
Riders in the Sky 3,000th performance
Richard Thompson new releases
Indigo Girls Rarities
Coope Boyes & Simpson traditional album
Michael Martin Murphey first recording in four years
Ry Cooder latest recording
Buckwheat Zydeco first recording in eight years
B.B. King book
Waldemar Bastos first recording in seven years

LABELS

Columbia/Legacy Announces Rosanne Cash Reissues
Rounder Records Releases CD and DVD Telluride Bluegrass Festival: 30 Year
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings Releases Classic Southern Gospel
Fellside Records releases Song Links 2
New Signings: Pete & Maura Kennedy with Appleseed Recordings; Circuit Riders with Pinecastle Records; Curt Kirkwood with Little Dog Records; Al Kooper with Favored Nations Entertainment
Marty Stuart's Superlatone Records

Thomas Mapfumo

INTERNET

Thomas Mapfumo Releases Digital-Only Album
Polish folk music magazine Gadki z Chatki Has English Version on Internet
Nikos Dimitriadis' Oud Website

AGENTS

On Queue Performing Artists Takes On Marie and Martin Reilly and John Williams and Dean Magraw

FESTIVALS

8th Annual Boston Folk Festival
Mull of Kintyre Festival

INSTRUMENTS

Johnson Bluegrass Series Guitars
Homespun Tapes' Happy Traum DVDs

ORGANIZATIONS

Clear Path International
Alan Lomax Database
Louis Jay Meyers New Executive Director of The North American Folk Music and Dance Alliance
Benefit CD for American Refugee Committee

IN MEMORIAM

Laura Canales
Johnnie Johnson
Jimmy Martin
Kasper "Stranger" Malone

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