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MIXTAPE: Liberated Women by Dawn Landes
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MIXTAPE: Liberated Women by Dawn LandesMy new album, The Liberated Woman’s Songbook, reimagines folk songs about women’s activism from a songbook published in 1971 at the height of the Women’s Liberation Movement. Songbooks were the playlists of the past. Before people could burn CDs or make mixtapes, if they wanted to share songs they would…
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MIXTAPE: Liberated Women by Dawn Landes
MixtapeDec 11, 2023

I was born into a music-centered family in small town Arkansas near "where the Delta meets the Ozarks." My grandparents started a music store on the court square in the 1960s and they sold instruments and equipment, et al. – and also carried the top records of the day. So, music and musicians were infused…

MIXTAPE: Liberated Women by Dawn Landes
MixtapeNov 27, 2023

It is a tale as old as time itself. As above so below. Yin and Yang. The explored and the unexplored. The hero’s journey, any and all of them, are exposed to the eternally enduring dance of chaos and order. We must leave the garden, enter into the forest to find the gold, kill the…

MIXTAPE: Liberated Women by Dawn Landes
MixtapeNov 13, 2023

My name is Bertolf Lentink, I was born in 1980 and I’m from the Netherlands. I was spoon-fed bluegrass music by my father, who endlessly played his records by the likes of Doc Watson, Tony Rice, and Tim O’Brien in my parental home. At a young age, I learned to play both from and with…

MIXTAPE: Liberated Women by Dawn Landes
MixtapeOct 16, 2023

Most songs stay in one musical scale or “key." In this key there are 6 chords which are widely used. The 1 chord is the root chord, usually used to end the song and give a definite feeling. Chords 2 and 3 are sad sounding minor chords in most cases. Chord 4 and 5 often…

MIXTAPE: Liberated Women by Dawn Landes
MixtapeOct 4, 2023

At 89 years old, old-time music community leader, Grammy nominee, and Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame inductee Alice Gerrard continues to place her music making and creativity decidedly in the present. While every lyric she utters and every note she picks feels effortlessly timeless, storied, and burnished – by her lived experiences and by days,…

MIXTAPE: Liberated Women by Dawn Landes
MIXTAPE: Liberated Women by Dawn Landes