Sweet Freedom: folk-music magazines

The monthly assembly of undervalued and often nearly "lost" music, or simply music the blogger in question wants to remind you reader/listeners of...this month, a lot of bands and performers who haven't been Too terribly overlooked!--but also, even the most influential and legendary artists have produced some work that is easy to miss...even as we will miss a few of those cited below.

And, thinking of Ronnie Gilbert, Patrick Sky, most of the Byrds and others considered below, some folk-music magazine covers, including two from the two different magazines called Hootenanny, one keyed to the ABC television series (edited by Linda Solomon, a friend of then-fellow pro music critics Ted White and Harlan Ellison) and one not (edited by Lynn Musgrave and Robert Shelton, who helped Bob Dylan among others along, but Dylan particularly)...

Patti Abbott: Music

Brian Arnold: Joe Jackson's early work

Jayme Lynn Blaschke: Friday Night Videos

Sean Coleman: The Byrds: The Notorious Byrd Brothers

Bill Crider: Abba: Forgotten Music; Song of the Day; Forgotten Hits: Local Charts

Cullen Gallagher: rediscovering vinyl

Jeff Gemmill: Paul McCartney: Overlooked Gems; Top 5s; River of Time

Jerry House: Patrick Sky; Daily Music+; Hymn Time

Randy Johnson: Joe Bonamassa

George Kelley: The Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers

Kate Laity: Drums...Mad Max: Fury Road and well beyond

Laura: James Horner

Todd Mason: Ronnie Gilbert; Ornette Coleman; Third Stream Music; 20th Century Classical; some music my father has liked and loved

Patrick Murtha: Chico Buarque; Carl Nielsen

Lawrence Person: Shoegazer Sunday