August 12, 2002 Page A1
EFFORT UNDER WAY TO HONOR LOCAL BLUES GIANT

JIM SCHLOSSER Staff Writer

"Before he casts Sonny Terry in stone, Greensboro artist Harry Blair
must nail down one detail about the famous blues harmonica player.

Terry was born Saunders Terrell in 1911 near Greensboro, but which
one? Greensboro, N.C., or Greensboro, Ga.?

For every two write-ups about Terry on the Internet that say
Greensboro, N.C., one says Greensboro, Ga.

The mural at the central library downtown that shows greats born in
the Greensboro area includes Terry, who died in 1986.

..."
http://www.news-record.com/

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"Tom Paxton to Perform Free Concert at the Library of Congress in Tribute to 9/11"
http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2002/02-117.html

"Tom Paxton to Perform 9/11 Tribute"
http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2002/02-109.html

"New Tom Paxton CD on Appleseed in October"
Tom Paxton, one of folk music’s most
enduring and respected singer/songwriters,
will top off a banner year with the release of
his first new studio-recorded solo CD for
adults since 1994 on Appleseed in late
October, Looking for the Moon.
http://www.appleseedrec.com/theorchard/news/

The Barns of Wolf Trap in 2003

Wednesday, February 19 at 8:00 PM
Ribbon of Highway — Endless Skyway
A Concert in the Spirit of Woody Guthrie
Starring:
Jimmy LaFave, Ellis Paul,
Sarah Lee Guthrie, Johnny Irion
& Slaid Cleeves

Five talented performers come
together to honor the man who
has inspired them all. Woody
Guthrie’s granddaughter, Sarah
Lee Guthrie, and her husband,
country/folk singer Johnny Irion
join others influenced by the
legend. The show will include Austin-based
singer/songwriter/guitarist Jimmy LaFave,
Americana singer/songwriter Slaid Cleeves, and folk
performer Ellis Paul — who even has a tatoo
of Woody Guthrie on his arm.

http://www.wolf-trap.org/performances/show021903.html

The Mammals at Takoma Park Folk Festival this Saturday and Sunday:
http://www.tpff.org/
Saturday:
http://www.tpff.org/benefit_concert.htm
Sunday:
(see Field Stage -- Mammals perform at 4 PM)
http://www.tpff.org/program_grid.htm
Mary Cliff hosts on Sunday:
http://www.weta.org/community/events/takoma2002.html

article from Washington Post:

THE MAMMALS "Evolver" Humble Abode

Friday, September 20, 2002; Page WE08

THE MAMMALS

"Evolver"

Humble Abode

The Mammals don't suffer from
multiple genre syndrome, they
celebrate it, as if gleefully aware that
the sound barriers separating old-timey music, vintage pop and contemporary
folk are as permeable as cotton. Ruth Ungar (on fiddle and ukes), Michael
Merenda (on various banjos) and Tao Rodriguez-Seeger (on six- and
12-string guitars) are acoustic traditionalists, to be sure, but the subversive
sort.

When the trio mates aren't busy reinvigorating the stringband favorite "Way
Down the Old Plank Road" on their new album "Evolver," they can often be
found conjuring an altogether different mood -- dreamily reprising a Tin Pan
Alley tune ("Stairway to the Stars") or tipping their hats to British folk-rocker
Richard Thompson via his narrative ballad "1952 Vincent Black Lightning."
With the help of friends and some well known relatives, including folk legend
Pete Seeger and fiddler Jay Ungar, the Mammals make these odd stylistic
transitions sound logical, albeit sometimes in a playfully twisted way, and it's
never hard to understand why they've chosen to dust off "John Brown's
Dream," "Lady Margaret" and other vintage tunes.

As for the original pieces, they're a cut above average, especially the topical
lament "Profit," composed and sung by Merenda and Ungar, and the
Ungar-penned portrait "City Never Sleeps." Mostly, though, it's the old tunes
and the band's abundant verve and charm that keep "Evolver" spinning.

-- Mike Joyce

Appearing Saturday night with Squeeze Bayou at Takoma Park Middle
School Auditorium and Sunday afternoon as part of the Takoma Park
Folk Festival on the grounds of Takoma Park Middle School. • To hear
a free Sound Bite from the Mammals, call Post-Haste at 202-334-9000
and press 8132. (Prince William residents, call 703-690-4110.)

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article from Washington Post:

Event Features Roots Music, Stump Speeches
Eclectic Gathering In Takoma Park

By Eugene L. Meyer
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, September 23, 2002; Page B03

His grandfather had come some 17 years ago to play the same gig. So when Tao Rodriguez-Seeger strummed the banjo at the annual Takoma Park Folk Festival yesterday and talked about the
resurgence of interest in the music across the generations, he spoke with some
authority.

"We've had 80-year-olds and 8-year-olds," said Rodriguez-Seeger, grandson of
legendary folk singer and activist Pete Seeger. "People are discovering it for the
first time. . . . They're saying this music is really great."

Rodriguez-Seeger, 30, credited the soundtrack from the movie "O Brother,
Where Art Thou" for drawing new listeners to old-style or roots music. New
folk bands have sprung up in recent years, including his group, the Mammals,
which performed at a banjo workshop and later a concert for the crowd.

"There is a new generation of musicians trying to bring folk back to young
people," said Lenore Robinson, an organizer of the event. Regardless of the
trends, folk music has always been a mainstay of the Takoma Park festival,
which is in its 25th year.

On a sloping field or inside the adjoining Takoma Park Middle School, visitors
sat back and listened to, among others, the Hot Kugel Klezmer Band and
Scottish fiddle player Elke Baker.

"I came for the music," said Frank Wagner, 49, a private school teacher who
had driven over from Arlington with his wife, Pat, 49, too late for the workshop
but not too late to hear the Mammals.

Music aside, festival-goers could find almost any cause, even a table promoting
Republican candidates in a lopsidedly Democratic town. Candidates, including
Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend (D), worked the crowds that had come
primarily to savor the folk music, foods, crafts and causes espoused at dozens
of tables.

They could sip free "holy lemonade" from the Seekers Church, receive small
floral arrangements from the Johrei Fellowship ("We channel divine light, and
it's free," said Barbara Stevens, 54), or feast on ethnic food.

There were kids with cotton candy and young parents pushing strollers. There
was Saul Schniderman, 54, hawking 25th annual festival T-shirts for $15 -- he
had been among the original organizers back in 1978.

"It's so Takoma Park," said Ellen Yui, 40, a resident since 1988 of the
Montgomery County town and there with husband, Jimmi, 47, and sons Zen, 10,
and Yoshi, 8. "There's great music, being listened to by very concerned people,
concerned to make the world a better place."

The very concerned people worked scores of tables. They represented, among
others, the Democratic, Republican, Libertarian and Green parties, the Boy
Scouts, the Chinese Christian Church, the Baha'i faith, the Sierra Club and the
Takoma Park police.

Millie Plotkin, 29, was there as founder and chair of a countywide vigil for
people with eating disorders. She said she was recovering from bulimia. Others
espoused freedom for Lori Berenson, a U.S. citizen imprisoned in Peru.

Nearby, two students from Tappers with Attitude were tap-dancing away the
afternoon. Their table had shoes to spare. "We got your size," said teacher
Yvonne Edwards, trying to coax passersby into trying the dance form.

Into this milling milieu walked Townsend, who in her campaign for governor
already by midafternoon had been to two churches and another festival in
Gaithersburg and would later attend a blues festival at Prince George's
Community College.

Her entourage included County Executive Douglas M. Duncan, state Sen. Ida
G. Ruben and correspondents from People magazine and Luna, an Italian
women's magazine that plans to feature her as its woman of the month.

Her Republican opponent, U.S. Rep. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., spent his afternoon
a few miles away in College Park, answering questions from a panel of citizens
about his plans for the state, particularly for bailing Maryland out of a $1.7
billion shortfall projected over the next two years.

Townsend gave hugs, posed for pictures and chatted with would-be supporters.
About her plans for the state's budget shortfall, she said, "You'll know soon
enough."

Then, after 30 minutes, she was off to her next stop.

Guitar sold that may possibly be Woody's:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020923/ap_en_mu/people_woody_guthrie_1

I think the guitar mentioned in this article is the $100,000 one that Arlo told us he examined and declared that it was indeed his Dad's:

"Shop owner is king of legends' strings"
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/text/134499774_guitar25e.html

Thanks for the info. <img src="http://www.arlo.net/ubb/smilies/smile.gif" width=15 height=15>

http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/268/living/Shutter_to_think+.shtml

Sonic buffet

Whenever young Go! asked for a special meal that could potentially tax our
mother's culinary abilities - meaning anything that didn't come frozen in a
compartmentalized aluminum tray - she would snap, ''What do you think this is,
Alice's Restaurant?'' We had no idea what she was talking about until we got to
college and finally heard Arlo Guthrie's song of the same name. We can only
imagine that Sara Lee Guthrie endured a similar childhood fate. After all, her
father is Arlo and grandfather is Woody Guthrie. Tonight, you can hear this
third-generation Guthrie at Club Passim at 8. Also performing is Matt Watroba
and Tanya Savory. And we guarantee that if you order a pizza at Veggie Planet
before the show, no one will offer a snippy Alice's Restaurant retort.

47 Palmer St., Cambridge, 617-492-7679.

Although I'm proud of my collection of Woody Guthrie memorabilia, I reckon it don't hold a candle to all the really cool Woody stuff this Denver resident has collected over the years.

Wild About Woody
Denver collector Barry Ollman boasts Guthrie trove.

http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36%257E78%257E757224%257E,00.html


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Levi, thanks for the link--I'll have to use it when my husband starts using words like "obsessed." <img src="http://www.arlo.net/ubb/smilies/smile.gif" width=15 height=15>

Austin City Limits kicks off its 28th season with the rockin' rowdy blues of legendary Grammy winner Bonnie Raitt. Bonnie is joined by blues guitarist Roy Rogers, Zimbabwe pop star Oliver Mtukudzi and singer-songwriter John Prine during her hour long performance. The Bonnie Raitt episode of Austin City Limits airs Oct. 5th on PBS (check local listings for time/date in your area).

I read that Austin City Limits producer Terry Lickona is trying to book Bob Dylan for the show..... How about Arlo, too?

Am I mistaken, or didn't Arlo once do ACL once in the past? <img src="http://www.arlo.net/ubb/smilies/confused.gif" width=15 height=22>

Amazingly strange, but Arlo has never done an Austin City Limits show... yet.
Don't know why either. <img src="http://www.arlo.net/ubb/smilies/confused.gif" width=15 height=22>

Peace & God Bless Woody. You are missed... <img src="http://www.arlo.net/ubb/smilies/peace.gif" width=16 height=16>