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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.
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Alluring Spider Dances

TJ Nelson March 26, 2010 1 Comment

Various Artists Taranta Nights 2 (Italian World Music (IWM 252 , 2009) Unfortunately, "O Sole Mio," "Mambo Italiano" or some other equally cheesy pop song…

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Into the Django Swing

TJ Nelson March 17, 2010 No Comments

Wedeli Köhler Swing and Folk (Jazzpoint Records, 2010) Lingering over that second pot of coffee while brushing the croissant crumbs from your chin and smudging…

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Poetic Dreamland

TJ Nelson March 5, 2010 No Comments

Ras Nas Double Focus (Konpro, 2010) Music and poetry fans looking for something off the beaten path should check out Double Focus by Ras Nas…

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Superbly Polished Diallo

TJ Nelson February 27, 2010 No Comments

Alpha Yaya Diallo Immé (Jericho Beach Music, 2010) Guinean born singer, guitarist and composer Alpha Yaya Diallo has racked up another 11 glorious tracks on…

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Hajj’s Sumptuous Locations

TJ Nelson February 22, 2010 No Comments

Andre Hajj and Ensemble Amaken – Instrumental Music from Lebanon (ARC Music, 2009) With the likes of Iranian percussionist Ramin Rahimi and the Azerbaijani group…

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Dengue Fever Reveals Rock and Pop Gems from Cambodia’s Past

TJ Nelson February 21, 2010 No Comments

Various Artists >Dengue Fever Presents: Electric Cambodia (Minky Records, 2010) Dictator and all around bad guy, Pol Pot, along with his bloody band of Khmer…

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Tinariwen’s Desert Blues Galvanizes Chapel Hill

TJ Nelson February 17, 2010 No Comments

  On a dismal, dark, February night world music fans chased away the winter chill at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Memorial…

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Quintessential N’Dour

TJ Nelson February 3, 2010 No Comments

Youssou N’Dour Music From the Motion Picture I Bring What I Love (Nonesuch, 2010) The critically acclaimed documentary I Bring What I Love, directed by…

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Obituaries

Popular Canadian Folk Singer Kate McGarrigle Dies at 63

TJ Nelson January 20, 2010 No Comments

Canadian folk singer and song writer Kate McGarrigle died in Montreal, Canada on Monday January 18, 2010. Ms. McGarrigle died at her home after a…

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Phenomenally Good Ali & Toumani

TJ Nelson January 6, 2010 No Comments

Ali Farka Touré and Toumani Diabaté Ali & Toumani (World Circuit/Nonesuch Records, 2010) Drawing the listener close from the opening notes, guitarist Ali Farka Touré…

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