Treats - Links

12 Bar Club
London, England. Online TV webcast had been installed! You can now watch whoever is playing there live, seven days a week, or go to the archives. Some great stuff.

Banjo Jokes
Darrell the banjo picker's canonical list of banjo jokes.

Birthdays!!!
Find out the birthdays of your favorite artists. Doug Henkle's monster folk library has the dates - or links to a site that most likely does - from the famous to the obscure.

Canadian Folk Festival Slide Show
Mary Joy Aitken has created a neat slide show culled from several festivals, complete with Indigo Girls background music. A fun way to get away for a few minutes.

cddb.com
Ever put a CD into your computer's cd-drive and all the boxes for the album and song titles are empty? This odd site holds a database of CD info for >300,000 albums, which you can download into your CD player. Cool, eh?

Celebrity Cafe
Long list of short interviews include half a dozen folkies - Janis Ian, Rose Polenzani, Joel Cage, Black 47. If you're itching for a glimpse, that's about what you'll get.

Dar Williams' Tofu Tollbooth
If you're on the road a lot, you start to feel like the world is made of gas stations and fast food restaurants. You don't have to be a musician, though, to enjoy Dar's solution: a guide to health food restaurants and food coops around the country.

Dr. Demento
Official site sells the infamous compilations plus gives links/contact info. for all these weird artists.

Doctors Without Borders / Medécins Sans Frontières
Nobel Peace Prize winning group and one of the world's great organizations.

Dublin Pub Tour
A virtual pub tour of Dublin's most notable pubs with pics and tales. A good diversion and cheaper than flying.

Folk File, The
Bill Markwick's brilliant cross between a dictionary, mini-encyclopedia and biography index for folk music afficionados. Lots of fun to browse.

The Hunger Site
Visit the site put up by the UN World Food Program and automatically have a donation sent.

Kevin McCarthy - Celtic & Folk Music CD Reviews
For another point of view on the newest releases, try this site.

Kiss This Guy (Mis-heard Lyrics)
Named for the infamous mis-hearing of Hendrix's "kiss the sky," this site features hundreds of mis-heard lyrics in a very entertaining format. Use the alphabetical listing or try the random selection for hours of fun.

Lomax: John & Alan Lomax Historical Tour
Follow the path of these two pioneering folk historians through the south where they "virtually discovered the blues" - at least for the mainstream American audience. Thanks to Blues Guide John Babich for this link.

Railroad Songs
Someone's got a penchant for train songs - and has collected the titles and authors of a few hundred of them. For all you 'bos.

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
This site includes the folkies who lie at the source of rock - from Woody, Dylan and Springsteen to the blues masters.

This American Life: Archives
This amazing radio series produced by Ira Glass on NPR stations is a weekly collection of audio essays and the real life dramas of non-celebrities isn't folk music, but it's stories of the people.

Tilton, Linda
This American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter is a perennial favorite at the Winfield Folk Festival. The artform is becoming a staple of folk music events all around the U.S.

Turn It Down
Anti-White Power music site run by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

UrbanLegends.com
When it comes to the latest incredible story, this site can help you separate myth from reality...but who would want to? Folklore studies is alive and well!

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