Chinbat Baasankhuu The Art of the Mongolian Yatga (ARC Music, 2014) Anyone who has followed many of my reviews here at World Music Central knows…
The Sheer Excellence of Chinbat Baasankhuu
Author: TJ Nelson
TJ Nelson is a regular CD reviewer and editor at World Music Central. She is also a fiction writer. Check out her latest book, Chasing Athena's Shadow.
Set in Pineboro, North Carolina, Chasing Athena's Shadow follows the adventures of Grace, an adult literacy teacher, as she seeks to solve a long forgotten family mystery. Her charmingly dysfunctional family is of little help in her quest. Along with her best friends, an attractive Mexican teacher and an amiable gay chef, Grace must find the one fading memory that holds the key to why Grace’s great-grandmother, Athena, shot her husband on the courthouse steps in 1931.
Traversing the line between the Old South and New South, Grace will have to dig into the past to uncover Athena’s true crime.
A Precious Listen into Afghan Music
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Warren Cuccurullo and Ustad Sultan Khan’s Extraordinary Collaboration
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Blues Guitarist Johnny Winter Dead
The blues guitarist that a 1968 Rolling Stone article described as “a cross-eyed albino with long, fleecy hair, who plays some of the gutsiest,…
The Startling Edgy Sound of Harri Kuusijarvi Koutus
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Sondorgo’s Extraordinary Virtuosity and Captivating Passion
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The Slyly Clever and Lively Sound of The Bombay Royale
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Ricardo Lemvo’s Addictively Scrumptious Rumba
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