"Time, she's a fast old train" -- Townes Van Zandt

New interviews up at Cynsations and The Ruby Winkle Review.

Haunted Playlist #26: TRUST THE HOURS

Crystal, Put Down the Pistol -- Arty Hill
Lille -- Lisa Hannigan
No Place to Fall -- Steve Earle
Was I? -- Madeleine Peyroux
Fly, My Sweet Dove -- Will Johnson
Rank Stranger -- Crooked Still
Cascades -- Horse Feathers
Don't Forget to Cry -- Mandy Barnett
Gypsy Davy -- Elvis Perkins In Dearland
Road to Nowhere -- Nouvelle Vague
The Royal Road At the World's End -- Alasdair Roberts
Wait -- Andrew Bird
Ninna nanna -- Pink Martini
Colorado Girl -- Steve Earle
Seeds of Night -- The Cave Singers
The Snows They Melt the Soonest -- Dick Gaughan
I Am Goodbye -- Bonnie "Prince" Billy
Last Fair Deal Gone Down -- Crooked Still
Little Girl and Dreadful Snake -- Gob Iron
Neruda -- Rupa & The April Fishes
To Live Is to Fly -- Steve Earle
A Long Night On the Misty Moor -- Liz Carroll & John Doyle
Last Call -- Doug & Telisha Williams
Just Some Silence -- Will Johnson
Orphan Girl -- Crooked Still
(Quicksilver Daydreams Of) Maria -- Steve Earle
Eu Sei Que Vou Te Amar / Coraçao Vagabundo -- Bebo & Cigala
Tell Me True -- Sarah Jarosz
Leaving In the Morning -- J.J. Cale
Strange (Single Version) -- Patsy Cline
Orphan Girl -- Horse Feathers


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"Come away, O human child/To the waters and the wild." -- W.B. Yeats

Haunted Playlist #25: APPROACHING OBLIVION

Souverian--Andrew Bird
I Could Love You--Alice & the Majesty
Slower Dear--Bob Schneider
My Dream of You--Solas
Moonlight Only Knows--Deadstring Brothers
Nasib Mak Kualon--Usman Achmad
Tiger Mountain Peasant Song--Fleet Foxes
All This TIme--Sara Watkins
Kathleen (feat. Jolie Holland)--David Gray
Last Leaf--Lisa Hannigan
Give Up and Die--Lonesome Wyatt & Rachel Brooke
Cello Song (feat. Jose Gonzalez)--The Books
You'll Lose a Good Thing--Barbara Lynn
Ngombi--Baka Beyond
Truce--Joe Henry
My Life As a Ghost--Tanya Donelly
Song for a Blue Guitar--Red House Painters
Oran Nan Raiders--Julie Fowlis
Here At the Right Time--Josh Ritter
Fuego, Alma y Paz--Salsa Celtica
Silverlined--Donna the Buffalo
Temazcal--Monsters of Folk
Pony--Sara Watkins
Woven Birds--Calexico
Mixed Up, Shook Up Girl--Mink De Ville
Shankill Butchers--Sarah Jarosz
Giant of Illinois--The Handsome Family
I'd Rather Go Blind--Etta James
Simple Twist of Fate--Jeff Tweedy
Micael--Juana Molina
I See Through You--Centro-Matic
Shine a Light--Les Triaboliques
Hestia--Katell Keineg
Rose--Castanets
Mariel--Maya Beiser
Oblivión--Anthony de Mare & Maya Beiser

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"To be idle is to become a stranger unto the seasons, and to step out of life's procession."--Kahlil Gibran

Haunted Playlist #24: HIGH AND LOW

Highland Mary -- Kane Welch Kaplin
Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain -- Jon Langford & Sally Timms
A Chance Counsel -- Richard Buckner
The Blackest Crow -- Heidi Talbot
She Belongs to Me -- Bob Dylan
High Shelf Booze -- Eilen Jewell
Ocean Breathes Salty -- Sun Kil Moon
Sparrow -- Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem
Another Morning -- American Music Club
Sanvean (Live) -- Dead Can Dance
Movin' On -- The Greencards
Peacock Dance -- Matt Kanelos & the Smooth Maria
Pe In Eirinn I -- Eamon Doorley, Julie Fowlis, Ross Martin & Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh
Hell or High Water -- William Elliott Whitmore
Stormy Weather -- Nina Nastasia
Deserted Love -- Paul Burch
Fox and Hound -- Haley Bonar
The Ballad of Love and Hate -- The Avett Brothers
Temporary Loan -- Edith Frost
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right -- Bob Dylan
Big Black Bird -- Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem
Tent of Total Mystery -- Will Johnson
Lon-dubh (Blackbird) -- Julie Fowlis
Over Your Shoulder -- Calexico
Persian Love Song (Live) -- Dead Can Dance
Way of the Sun -- Archer Prewitt
Honey Bee -- Zee Avi
Love Vigilantes -- Iron & Wine
Dark Eyed Sailor -- Ruth Notman
Ring the Bell -- Songs: Ohia
Mango Tree -- Angus & Julia Stone
I Wish I Knew -- Sharon Van Etten
Tissue No. 7 (from Naqoyqatsi) For Cello, Percussion & Piano -- Wendy Sutter
Sonata for Piano: Adagio Ma Non Troppo -- Gloria Cheng

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“My mouth/had no way/with names,/my eyes were blind,/and something started in my soul” – Pablo Neruda

A couple of blog interviews about Sideshow just went up at Teenreads and Shooting Stars Magazine.

Haunted Playlist #23: NOW I SEE

I See a Darkness -- Bonnie "Prince" Billy
Gravity -- Freakwater
Solitaire -- Wilco
Rainy -- Christina Courtin
CC Rider -- Old Crow Medicine Show
Three Kingdoms -- Guo Brothers
Natural Disaster -- Andrew Bird
Feeling Bad -- Sweetback Sisters
Sleep a While -- Will Johnson
Sweet Deception -- Laura Gibson
Rainha Santa -- Alfredo Marceneiro
Love Songs On the Radio -- Mojave 3
Call It What You Will -- Joe Pug
Tá Mé 'Nois 'Caoineadh (I Am Now Crying) -- Navan
Sunset Gates -- Gomez
Who Will Comfort Me? -- Melody Gardot
I Felt the Chill Before the Winter Came -- Elvis Costello
Where Do You Go to When You Disappear? – Helene
Pauline -- Zwanie Jonson
Fox In Its Hole -- Jolie Holland
Objects In Motion -- Jim White
The Beautiful Ones -- The Battle of Land and Sea
You Win Again -- Hank Williams
Bicare -- Taksim Trio
The Bounty of Mary Jane -- Bobby Long
Defy This Love -- Shannon Wright
My Goodbyes -- South San Gabriel
Tears for Affairs -- Camera Obscura
I'm so Lonesome I Could Cry -- Johnny Cash
Blackbirds -- Erin McKeown
After We Shot the Grizzly -- The Handsome Family
Dar (Que Difícil) -- Juana Molina
Fresh Blood -- Eels
All the Night Without Love -- Elvis Perkins in Dearland
Swansea -- Joanna Newsom
Said and Sung -- Home of the Lame
Oi Altas Undas Que Venetz Sus la Mar -- Ensemble Tre Fontane
Raining in Darling -- Bonnie "Prince" Billy
Leave the Light On -- Priscilla Ahn
The Fireworks Were Fish Exploding -- Garrett Pierce
Silver Dagger -- Martha Tilston
School Boy -- Wynton Marsalis
World to Come IV -- Maya Beiser
Evga Mana Moui -- Primavera en Salonico & Savina Yannatou
Book of Longing: Want to Fly -- Philip Glass
Amazing Grace -- Melissa Swingle

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"Be inspired by the flame/Where everything shines as it disappears." -- Rainer Maria Rilke

Haunted Playlist #22: ARISE

From This I Will Awake -- South San Gabriel
Moonglow, Lamp Low -- Eleni Mandell
A Perfect Day to Chase Tornados -- Jim White
Sun and Moon -- Soname
Kingdom of the Animals -- Iron & Wine
Love Came Here -- Lhasa
Where Flamingos Fly -- The Gil Evans Orchestra
Up and Gone -- Cat Power
Stranded Pearl -- Giant Sand
One Day -- Melody Gardot
Five String Serenade -- Mazzy Star
Bottles & Bones (Shade and Sympathy) --Califone
Nobody's Fault But Mine -- Abigail Washburn
Whiskey and Rags -- Emily Wells
Nantes – Beirut
Vengeance Is Sleeping -- Neko Case
Just to Know What You've Been Dreaming -- Will Johnson
Steadfast and True -- Shannon Wright
Crash Into the Sun -- Jim White
Come On Over (Turn Me On) -- Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan
It Only Hurts When I Cry -- Raul Malo
Silverlake Babies -- Eleni Mandell
We Have Met Before -- The Gutter Twins
Keys to the Kingdom -- Abigail Washburn
More Than Alive -- Hayden
Kiss -- Scout Niblett
Waylaway -- Mediaeval Baebes
Cursed Sleep -- Bonnie "Prince" Billy
Pony Song -- Edith Frost
Get Out, Get Out, Get Out -- Jason Molina
Then Go (Live) -- Damien Rice and Lisa Hannigan
My Home Is the Sea -- Matt Sweeney & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
Life Boat -- Miranda Lee Richards
Walking Man -- Zoe Keating
The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080 - Contrapunctus No. 1 -- Pierre-Laurent Aimard
The Well Sequel (Bonus Track) -- Tarnation

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“I would, but I'm paralyzed with not caring very much.” – Spike (Buffy)

Haunted Playlist #21: STILL STANDING, STANDING STILL

White Blank Page -- Mumford & Sons
In a Sentimental Mood -- John Coltrane & Duke Ellington
Revelator -- Gillian Welch
Oíche Fá Fhéil' Bríde /On Brigid's Eve -- Susan McKeown
Don't Look Back -- The Wood Brothers
Hawa Dolo -- Ali Farka Touré
Horses -- Be Good Tanyas
Forever Blue -- Chris Isaak
Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do) -- Aretha Franklin
All Dressed Up -- Citizen Cope
Big Jumps -- Emiliana Torrini
I Stopped Believing In You Today -- Frank Morey
Long Hot Summer Days -- Sara Watkins
We All, Us Three, Will Ride -- Iron & Wine
Alla -- Sevara Nazarkhan
Trouble Weighs a Ton -- Dan Auerbach
Captain, Captain -- Crooked Still
Let It Be Me -- Ray LaMontagne
Saeglópur -- Sigur Rós
Rootless Tree -- Damien Rice
Aviso ao Navegante -- Vinicius Cantuária
Isn't It a Lovely Night? -- The Decemberists
Greek Song -- Rufus Wainwright
Maria Lando -- Susana Baca
Passion Play -- William Fitzsimmons
Simple Things -- Eliza Carthy
The Banjolin Song -- Mumford & Sons
One of Those Days -- Eilen Jewell
Sensing Owls -- José González
La pecheuse -- Rupa
The Hazards of Love 4 (The Drowned) -- The Decemberists
Angel -- Sean Hayes
Mairi Bhan Dhail an Eas -- Mary Jane Lamond
Life's a Song -- Patrick Park
The Night Knows Nothing At All -- Six Organs of Admittance

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“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”--Anais Nin

Haunted Playlist #20: NIGHT BLOOMING

When the Night Comes--Dan Auerbach
Magpie to the Morning--Neko Case
Halfway to Jackson--Justin Townes Earle
Mean to Me (Acoustic)--Alice Russell
Come and Find Me--Josh Ritter
Triste Fado--António Zambujo
Maybe In a Prayer--Solas
Devil Do--Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs
Lonesome Roads--Dwight Yoakam
La Soledad--Pink Martini
Finch On Saturday--Horse Feathers
Lover's Return--Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt, Dolly Parton
(Was I) In Your Dreams—Wilco
Still Lookin' for You--Townes Van Zandt
Part One--Band of Horses
My Epitaph--Uncle Earl
Blue Spanish Sky--Chris Isaak
To Know Him Is to Love Him (Live) --Amy Winehouse
Gettin' By--Jerry Jeff Walker
Just Around the Bend--Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs
Cada Noche Un Amor --Ibrahim Ferrer
Gather to the Chapel--Liam Finn
Sleeping Dead--Emily Jane White
Lullaby--Pink Martini
Snowin' on Raton--Townes Van Zandt
Romulus--Sufjan Stevens
Sleep On--Alison Krauss
Leaving--Josh Ritter
The Pharoahs--Neko Case
White Wild Horses--Nicolai Dunger
Fado-Mãe--Dulce Pontes
What If--Lucinda Williams
Roses In the Snow--Papa M
For The Roses --Cassandra Wilson
Bodega Rose--Kesang Marstrand

Thanks to singer-songwriter Kesang Marstrand for being in touch with info about her new release, Bodega Rose. The title track closes this list, but give the whole album a listen. She’s a talent to watch:

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