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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.
Obituaries

2008 Music Obituaries, December

TJ Nelson January 6, 2009 No Comments

World Music Central’s list of musicians, scholars and music industry professionals who left us in 2008. December 1 Mikel Laboa, 74, singer and songwriter. Mr.…

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Album reviews

Refashioning Fado

TJ Nelson January 5, 2009 No Comments

Mariza Terra (Four Quarters Entertainment/World Connection, 2008) January just got brighter for fado fans with the upcoming January 27th release of Mariza’s Terra, while North…

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2008 Music Obituaries, November

TJ Nelson January 5, 2009 No Comments

World Music Central’s list of musicians, scholars and music industry professionals who left us in 2008. 1 Jimmy Carl Black, 70, musician and singer. Mr.…

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2008 Music Obituaries, October

TJ Nelson January 4, 2009 No Comments

World Music Central’s list of musicians, scholars and music industry professionals who left us in 2008. October 1 Nick Reynolds, 75, musician. Mr. Reynolds was…

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2008 Music Obituaries, September

TJ Nelson January 3, 2009 No Comments

World Music Central’s list of musicians, scholars and music industry professionals who left us in 2008. September 2 Arne Domnérus, 83, musician. Mr. Domnérus, nicknamed…

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2008 Music Obituaries, August

TJ Nelson January 3, 2009 No Comments

World Music Central’s list of musicians, scholars and music industry professionals who left us in 2008. August 3 Erik Darling, 74, songwriter and musician. Mr.…

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2008 Music Obituaries, July

TJ Nelson December 31, 2008 No Comments

World Music Central’s list of musicians, scholars and music industry professionals who left us in 2008. July 1 Mel Galley, 60, musician. Guitarist Mel Galley…

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2008 Music Obituaries, June

TJ Nelson December 28, 2008 No Comments

World Music Central’s list of musicians, scholars and music industry professionals who left us in 2008. June 1 Al Jones, 62, singer, songwriter and musician.…

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2008 Music Obituaries, May

TJ Nelson December 28, 2008 No Comments

World Music Central’s list of musicians, scholars and music industry professionals who left us in 2008. May 1 Mary Berry, 90, musicologist. Ms. Berry was…

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2008 Music Obituaries, April

TJ Nelson December 28, 2008 No Comments

World Music Central’s list of musicians, scholars and music industry professionals who left us in 2008. April 4 Fay McKay, 78, performer. A Las Vegas…

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