Not too long ago, World Music Central received a press packet promoting the musical group called ‘bond.’ The group is a string quartet of highly-trained…
Nice Thighs, But What Are You Selling?
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.
Johnny Cash: Country Music’s "Man in Black" Dies at 71
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Cast Your Nomination to the National Recording Registry Today
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Recording Industry Group Versus ‘Nycfashiongirl’
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Tango Siempre’s Nocturno
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FFynnon’s Celtic Music From Wales
FFynnon FFynnon, Celtic Music of Wales (Green Linnet GLCD1221, 2003) Somewhere in the mid 90s I became a traitor to my Celtic heritage – I…
State Department Insists Time Ran Out for Latin Grammy Nominees
Miami, USA – Cuban musicians Ibrahim Ferrer, Chucho Valdes and Cuban group Los Van Van, three nominees for the September 3rd Latin Grammy Award show,…
Taj Mahal’s Hanapepe Dream
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