A Newsvine Interview For the Putumayo Kids Album Hawaiian Playground

I have written before about how I love doing interviews with the Putumayo Kids label because they help me learn about other cultures and musical genres. In the past I have learned about music and cultures from Asia, Brazil and other places.

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My Five Favorite Holiday Songs

(This is a work in progress mostly because I'm sure I'm (as I confess in the final paragraph) forgetting a few great holiday songs. And sorry I'm jumping the gun.

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Interview: Chris Patterson, Lead Singer Of Leaving, TX

This interview has a back story to it.

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Interview: Singer Mae Robertson Talks About Hew New Album, Dream

Mae Robertson has gone from owning three children's stores to recording albums named as "Notable Recordings for Children" by The American Library Association.

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At Live Earth, a planetwide series of concerts, the highest ranks of the pop aristocracy will use their fame to persuade a global audience that climate change is not only an urgent problem but one they can help solve.

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Greatest Hits Albums for these guys?

Five bands who should never have had greatest hits albums released. Ok, sometimes they are packaged as compilations, sometimes as "best-of." But do we really need, say, the best of Right Said Fred?

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The Five Songs Most On My Mind This Month

These are five songs I've been listening to and thinking about.

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The band crammed 21 songs into little more than an hour, playing fast and loud and savage.

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Interview With Barney Saltzberg, Musician/Songwriter of Crazy Hair Day

I had never heard of Crazy Hair Day – the book, the album or the themed event - before I was asked to do an interview regarding this album but I love this whole concept.

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Interview with Peter Himmelman, singer-songwriter

Some albums aimed at children and families are lacking in originality and creativity. This, I am pleased to report, is not the case with My Green Kite, the new album by Peter Himmelman.

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An Interview With Folk Singer Sam Hinton

Folk singer Sam Hinton is an amazing man and the fact his children's album, Whoever Shall Have Some Good Peanuts, originally issued by Folkways in 1964, has been reissued by Smithsonian Folksway Recordings supports this belief.

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Interview: Jacob Edgar on Reggae Playground Family Cd

As part of my efforts to educate myself about music and prepare to be a good father one day, I have been venturing out and trying new things.

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Interview: Trout Fishing in America

Trout Fishing in America is one of the most intelligent but fun children's music groups around. Take, for example, their clever lyrics. I admit, in the interview below, to stealing the chorus of this song:

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