Sirius XM Radio just took the folk channel, The Village, off the XM Satellite lineup, and relegated it to the internet. There are posts from irate listeners on their Facebook page and a petition has been started to bring it back. I wish everyone luck, as we have seen that movie before up close, what with the removal of X Country, the channel I programmed up until three years ago. So it seems to be for the underserved genres of music. And Folk is such a rich and iconic world. I, for one, refuse to believe that there is too small an audience for this to be a viable format.
Yeah buddy. A life of music. Hang it all out there, learn the lessons, make the mistakes, and somehow someway, stay alive in it for as long as you can, if that is your calling. In the spotlight today is Lynn Miles, from a session we did almost two years ago at Threadgill’s during SXSW® music week in Austin. The song can be found on her most recent album, Fall For Beauty, which came out about a year ago. In December, Lynn picked up the Canadian Folk Music Award of English Songwriter of the Year for the new album. Congrats are due. Here is the Music Fog version of one of the songs from it, “Three Chords and Truth.” Amen.
- Jessie Scott
