Dear Mailing List, This coming Monday evening (Nov 24), I am taking part in an interesting event at London’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). My music publishing company, Carthage Music (in which I am a partner with long-time colleagues Guy Morris and Catherine Steinmann) is collaborating with SOAS in a study of the […]
Greetings, Mailing List It’s been a while, I admit. I have been trying to keep my head down, working on ‘The Book’ (about the World Music phenomenon, as yet untitled…) But I do have a few things to show you: a film of my visit to the John Peel Archive, where I was honoured to […]
Dear Mailing List, Tuesday Feb 4 at 1130 am GMT*, BBC Radio 4 will air a radio documentary presented by Yours Truly on the late great New Orleans pianist James Booker. It’s called “The Black Liberace” and is 30 minutes long. (a copy of this can be found here). I was asked to do it […]
I had a most enjoyable evening last at London’s Kings Place Hall. During a Christmas Concert by the Albion Band, I presented its leader, Ashley Hutchings, with the EFDSS Gold Badge Award for Lifetime Achievement. For the uninitiated, EFDSS stands for “English Folk Dance and Song Society”. Don’t laugh! Folk music is hip again in […]
Greetings Mailing List – A few dates coming up that may interest you.This Sunday, October 6 at 1pm Eastern Daylight Time (6pm Greenwich Daylight Time), I will do a live interview on the Atlantic Tunnel internet radio program(me). Then the following Sunday, October 13 at 6pm, I will take part in a “Classic Albums Sunday” session devoted […]
Where’s that Newsletter? I have been asking myself that very question, waiting for the Web Muses to pay me a visit. One complicating factor is that I am now the proud possessor of a Facebook page! (joeboydproducer – please visit and “Like” it if you are so inclined…) How do I reconcile the expansive vistas […]
Dear Mailing List, News from the Boyd Cage has been thin on the ground for a while, but Change Is NOW! So much to report, I might even resort to bullet points…. “Way To Blue”, the live cd of the Songs of Nick Drake concerts of the last three years is out April 15 on […]
Dear Mailing List, It’s been quite a while. The usual excuses, I’ve been busy etc., travelling a lot. Rajasthan for research on the book (about World Music, no title yet), Toronto for a Kate McGarrigle tribute concert and Australia (with Way To Blue) and South East Asia at the end of last year. A kind […]
Hello Music Lovers, (as Spike Jones used to say at the start of his 1950s television shows… he was kidding, I’m not!) Every time I take a shower these days, I am transfixed by the whirlpool of the drain and reveling in the thought that soon I will be watching water leave the building THE […]
Dear Mailing List, The Late Charlie Gillett used to do something on his radio show he called “Ping Pong”. A guest would bring a stack of recordings and he would answer each selection with one of his own that related to it somehow. I was fortunate enough to play the game with Charlie once and […]