http://www.cdnow.com/cgi-bin/mserver/redirect/leaf=allstararticle/fid=193622
On the heels of their second collaboration together, the as-yet-untitled follow-up to 1998's Mermaid Avenue, Wilco and Billy Bragg will take their Woody Guthrie road show on the road sometime this summer.
http://www.livedaily.com/archive/2000/2k03/wk4/BillyBraggAndWilcoToRelea.html
English protest singer Billy Bragg and Chicago country-rock band Wilco will release a second Woody Guthrie album in late May on Elektra Records. Bragg said that the album, recorded in Dublin and currently named “Mermaid Avenue Vol. II,” won’t be as folky as his first Woody Guthrie album with Wilco, “Mermaid Avenue,” released in 1998.

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a very nice review of Xavier's latest album "Full Circle" at: http://www.berkshireweb.com/rogovoy/thebeat/beat000224.html

xavier on mp3.com...

abe tells me that, so far, they've made a whopping 41 cents from downloads and he's sure they can push it all the way up to 50 cents! [img]/ubb/smilies/smile.gif[/img] he also mentioned that they only count 1 downloaded song per person per day, so doing the same song a couple of times doesn't help.

let's all go over and support the guys!!

details from randy of xavier..

3/22

We are now on mp3.com!! I'll supply you with the link and all you have to do is click away! Please go there and download a song or two. That will start the ball rolling at our new mp3 site!!! Thanks in advance!
Here is the mp3 site:
http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/101/xavier1.html

Please download a song or two that will help us out a lot!! lets make XAVIER #1 on mp3.com

Thanks,
Randy

3/25

We have added more songs to our mp3.com site for you to listen to and download! We also are going to be selling a version of our CD Full Circle with different arkwork and are calling it Half Circle It will be up on mp3.com in a few days! For now you can check out the new songs! Give them a listen or download one because mp3.com pays us everytime someone does!!!!!! Yay Money !!!!!!
http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/101/xavier1.html

Thanks,
Randy

http://rock.yahoo.com/rock/music_news/rolling_stone/story.html?s=n/rolling_stone/rock/news/20000401/20000401005
"Wilco, Bragg Get Comfy With Woody Guthrie"
...
As the gatekeeper of the Woody Guthrie Archives, and by proxy the driving force behind a recent rediscovery of America's greatest lyricist, Woody's daughter Nora is largely responsible for these albums. And with the latest album she promises something that resembles its predecessor only in name. "This is more cutting edge musically," she says of the album. "Woody's words were at the front of Mermaid I, but this is a louder sound. I feel like they might have liked a lot of the songs as artists on the first album, but we were kind of tiptoeing through it a little bit. This one really cuts loose."
...
As for Nora Guthrie, Mermaid Avenue Volume II isn't the only thing on her plate right now. She's also been involved in Til We Outnumber Them, a live album recorded at a 1996 tribute to her father featuring Bragg, Ani DiFranco, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Arlo Guthrie, Dave Pirner, Tim Robbins and Bruce Springsteen to be released on DiFranco's Righteous Babe label in April. She and bassist Rob Wasserman are also taking some of Woody Guthrie's diary entries that are written in rhyme and meter and recording them as improvised musical pieces with various guests. Spearhead's Michael Franti has already contributed a track, and DiFranco is committed for another. "It's a very funky and New Yorky kind of project," Guthrie says. "I tease the musicians that they won't be working on this for a year and a half. You're in the studio, you jam and you walk out. It's more like recording with Miles Davis."
...

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/ae/music/pop/507028
"Elliott takes his crowd through variety
of tales"

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April 20 press release:
http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2000/00-066.html

Bicentennial Celebration Announced
http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2000/00-048.html

Library of Congress to Offer New Web Site, Stamp, Coins,
Exhibits and Concert
...
Celebration
All day, Monday, April 24
Thomas Jefferson Building
...
Noon - 2:30 p.m., EAST LAWN OF THE CAPITOL
Free performances and concert at 1st Street and Independence
Avenue S.E. honoring American Voice and Song, featuring Gen. Colin
Powell, Sesame Street's Big Bird and Maria, The Saturday Night Live
Band, PETE SEEGER and Tao Rodriguez, Ralph Stanley and The Clinch
Mountain Boys, Kathy Mattea, Tito Puente, Clarence "Gatemouth"
Brown, Giovanni Hidalgo, Smokey Town Singers, The Army Blues,
Dianne Reeves, David Copperfield, Mickey Hart and Bob Weir, Kan
Kouran Dancers, David Sanchez, Eastern High School Choir

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http://www.greattapes.com/cart/products/seeger.phtml
Pete Seeger fans will watch this film over and over,
singing along with the classic folk songs.

What Kids and Parents Say...
"It's Pete Singer!" says Meg (6).

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http://www.billboard.com/daily/2000/0421_04.asp

Music Legends Honored In Washington

The Library of Congress will honor
84 U.S. "Living Legends" as part of
its bicentennial celebration on
Monday (April 24). Among them
are musicians, singers, and industry
pioneers, including Johnny Cash,
PETE SEEGER, Harry Belafonte, Tony
Bennett, Benny Carter, Ahmet
Ertegun, Mickey Hart, Quincy Jones, B.B. King,
Yo-Yo Ma, Tito Puente, Itzhak Perlman, Leontyne
Price, Bobby Short, Stephen Sondheim, Isaac Stern,
and Barbra Streisand.

Also on Monday, the Library will host a free outdoor
concert featuring performances from Seeger, Clarence
"Gatemouth" Brown, the "Saturday Night Live" band,
Dianne Reeves, Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain
Boys, and former Grateful Dead members Bob Weir
and Mickey Hart, who is a member of the board Of
trustees of the Library's American Folklife Center. The
event will culminate with a group performance of
WOODY GUTHRIE'S "This Land Is Your Land."

http://www.sonicnet.com/news/st ory.jhtml;$sessionid$X3EOY5IAAAKHUCQBIAFCFEY?genreNameForDisplay=Blues%2FFolk&genreDirectoryName=blues&id=821391
Tito Puente, Pete Seeger, Big
Bird Party Down For Library Of
Congress Birthday

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http://www.sonicnet.com/news/story.jhtml?genreNameForDisplay=Blues %2FFolk&genreDirectoryName=blues&id=821046
Ramblin’ Jack Elliott Still Rolling
...
For Ramblin' Jack's part, his stature as one of the
few authentic voices in folk music is growing
strong, and it just got an extra kick at the Grammy
Awards in February.

When Guthrie's daughter accepted a
lifetime-achievement award for her father at that
ceremony, she singled out Ramblin' Jack in the
audience and thanked him "for carrying on
Woody's torch all those years."


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http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/p/ap/20000424/us/books_to_bits_1iw.html
From left, Pete Seeger, Bobby Short, Ralph Stanley, Gloria Steinem and Isaac
Stern attend ceremonies in Washington honoring them for their contributions to
"American life," Monday April 24, 2000. They were among 34 people honored by
the Library of Congress. (AP Photo/Dennis Cook) http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/2000-04/25/085l-042500-idx.html
Yesterday's festivities began with the public concert on the East Lawn of
the Capitol. The day after Easter made for a huge crowd, and there was a
little something for everyone: Latin, pop, jazz, folk, bluegrass and country.
The presence of singers such as country's Kathy Mattea, folk's Pete Seeger
and rock's Mickey Hart (loved those Deadheads in the audience) were
intended to showcase the library's vast and diverse collection of American
music.

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This was fun! OK, anything with the Smothers Brothers is fun... but, the first clip (top row, left) is of the brothers and George Segal doing Phil Och's Draft Doger Rag. And, EVEN BETTER! The center clip on the second row is Pete, doing (I guess) The Big Muddy. Both were censored by CBS... and, watching now, the video part was not great for me, but the audio was terrific!

http://www.aentv.com/smotherbros/Censored/Default.htm

http://www.bergen.com/previews/jack1220000512.htm
Wherever he goes, he's home
RAMBLIN' JACK ELLIOTT: With the Freight Hoppers. 7:30 and 10:30
tonight. The Bottom Line, 15 W. Fourth St., Manhattan. $17.50. (212)
228-6300.
Stone Soup Coffeehouse Providence, RI
05.13.00
Florida Folk Festival
White Springs, FL
05.27.00

http://www.flheritage.com/folkfest/
Florida Folk Festival
featured artist Ramblin' Jack Elliott

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http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0019/lim.shtml
SUMMER FILM PREVIEW
BY M. ATKINSON, J. WINTER & D. LIM

A Guide to the Season's Competitors
.
.
The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack
Peripatetic folksinger Jack Elliott was Woody Guthrie's last traveling companion, and Woody's son Arlo as well as Pete Seeger and Kris Kristofferson show up in Aiyana Elliott's documentary. August 16

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http://phc.mpr.org/performances/20000520/guests.shtml
Ramblin' Jack will be a guest on PHC on 5/20.