Angelia To God Be The Glory CD

'" "That will give you something to live up to," I said. * In 2000, Josh brought a full band to Musikfest, the ten-day musical marathon held each year in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. But then Josh moved from Dark Hollow to San Diego to study Aikido, the subtle martial art, with Chiba Sensei, his Aikido teacher's Aikido teacher. While it was based in San Diego, Radio Free Earth was Josh, his new wife Kim and bass player Joe Hutchinson. Kim is an art teacher, painter and photographer who turned out to be a singer as well. She remembers listening to Joni Mitchell in her highchair, and grew up listening to Nina Simone, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Sinead O'Connor and world music. Josh earned his black belt in Aikido in the spring of 2005. And at the end of the school year, he and Kim moved back East to Massachusetts to build a barn. I said to them, "You know, Radio Free Earth could be a full band again at Musikfest this year. Josh's brother can play keyboards, and you can ask Mike Stanley to play guitar and Matt Koch to play bass. They're sure to know a drummer." Mike was Josh's guitar teacher and I've known Matt for twenty years or so. They're real players and I knew they could pick the music up fast. It turned out that Mike and Matt were playing together now with drummer Allen Heppe as Two Scruffs and a Neat Guy. And they and Brother Ben were glad to join Josh and Kim to be Radio Free Earth for the day. * "Just what kind of music is this, anyway?" Mike asked. It was August 13, the hottest day of the summer, and the band was cooling off between sets at Musikfest. It was 103 degrees on Main Street, and Josh and Kim had been performing in direct sunlight for an hour with the audience across the street finding refuge in whatever patches of shade they could find. Mike said, "I think it's neo-folk." He had something there. In folk music, it's the song that matters. And what is now known as folk drew music together from a wide variety of sources -- old ballads, blues, work songs, prison songs, protest songs, songs sung at camp and on the front porch -- and called them all by one name. But folk music isn't usually played with an electric guitar, piano ...

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