Category: Mainstream Written by Lisa Weitz

Those who have experienced Aviva Chernick’s intoxicatingly soulful vocals never forget where they heard them first. Whether as lead singer with Juno-nominated, world music ensemble Jaffa Road, the Balkan Ladino offshoot band Adjuntaremos, with singer Maryem Tollar in La Mer, or The Prayer

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Category: Mainstream Written by Stephen Pate

The special Woody Guthrie version of the Gibson Southern Jumbo is an authentic and a handsome guitar based on Woody’s 1945 guitar

Gibson Woody Guthrie SJ (Stephen Pate/NJN photo)

The 100th birthday of Woody Guthrie in 2012 has given people a chance to revisit one of

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Category: Mainstream Written by Stephen Pate

Category: Mainstream Written by Stephen Pate

The Times Really Are A Changin’ when Bob Dylan is talking directly to us on Facebook

“Here’s pretty close to what I said last night in Madison,” Bob Dylan wrote on his Facebook page.

“I said from the stage that we had to play better than good tonight,

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Category: Mainstream Written by Stephen Pate

Autobiography tells the story of a young Toronto boy who made it big in the Canadian music scene

In the early 1960′s Bernie Finkelstein was a young Jewish kid in Toronto cutting classes and on the make in the Toronto club scene.

Within a short time he was managing rock groups,

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Category: Mainstream Written by Stephen Pate

First week sales of Taylor Swift new CD were 1.21 million – a sales record for the past decade

Taylor Swift is pulling out all the stops promoting her new CD “Red”.

In the past week, Taylor Swift discussed her dating woes with Katie Couric. She danced on

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Category: Mainstream Written by Stephen Pate

$9.99 at Amazon.com is the lowest published price for “Red” which ships October 22

Taylor Swift’s new CD “Red” will be a run-away bestseller when it ships tomorrow.

“Red” is already #1 in Pop and Country charts on Amazon.com who have the

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