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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.
General News

FCC’s Media Ownership Studies Come to an End

TJ Nelson January 11, 2007

With the deadline for posting online public comments on the rules for media ownership to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) set to come to an…

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World Music Central’s 2006 Holiday Gift Giving Guide

TJ Nelson November 24, 2006 world music

For the past year all of us here at World Music Central have pounded the pavement, scrounged through stacks of CDs and even occasionally rummaged…

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Heart Wrenching Malian Blues

TJ Nelson October 7, 2006

Ali Farka Touré Savane (World Circuit/Nonesuch Records, 2006) With his death at 67 in March of 2006, Ali Farka Touré left behind more than a…

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Persian Roots Transformed into a World of Stratospheric Sensuality

TJ Nelson October 5, 2006 Azam Ali

Azam Ali Elysium for the Brave (Six Degrees Records, 2006) Born in Iran and raised in India and the United States, Azam Ali is familiar…

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Quiet Graceful Voice

TJ Nelson October 3, 2006

Susana Baca Travesías (Luaka Bop, 2006) The hauntingly precious vocals of Peru’s Susana Baca are always a treat, but her latest release Travesías is especially…

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Breezy Fusion of Jazz and Flamenco

TJ Nelson September 21, 2006

Carles Benavent and Josemi Carmona Sumando (Nuevos Medios, 2006) Jazz bassist Carles Benavent and guitarist Josemi Carmona have combined talents for Nuevos Medios release Sumando,…

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The New Melancholic Voices of Fado

TJ Nelson September 17, 2006

The elegant blend of vocals, the twelve-stringed guitarra portuguesa and viola that is the fado might have had a mysterious birth, and a even more…

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New World Music Venue in London

TJ Nelson August 9, 2006

Half The World is a new venture for London, an occasional season of live world music gigs being staged at Live On The Park below…

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The Music Imperative

TJ Nelson August 9, 2006

Every once in a while, when the international, national and local news aren’t quite enough to send me into a crazed frenzy, I wander over…

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Gecko Turner’s Riotous Intermingling of Genres

TJ Nelson August 2, 2006

Gecko Turner Guapapasea! (Quango, 2006) Every musician has an homage song or album in them where a style or musical influence is courted and seduced,…

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