There aren’t many musicians who have the luxury of taking ten years to complete an album. Much less still wind up with a job on the biggest tour in recent history, the reunion tour of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band.
At 10 p.m. on next Tuesday, Sept. 28, Denison students will have the opportunity to witness one such group performing traditional mountain songs in their original spirit.
As the music world continues to grow smaller, we are beginning to see more and more world music enter the commercial marketplace. A genre of music that has successfully done so is Celtic music.
On November 10, 1998, Columbia Records released Tracks, a four CD box set containing 65 songs, 56 of which have been previously unavailable. This set is a landmark in Springsteen’s career. For the first time, much bootlegged, and highly demanded, material is being released to the public.