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Mar 2 06:40 UTC 1997

I'll start things off by mentioning that I discovered a new folk
radio show today, while driving to meet the Saturday Grex Walkers
for lunch.  It's on WCBN, 88.3 FM in Ann Arbor, and it probably 
starts at 10 or 11 am Saturday morning, running to noon or 1.
They played Steeleye Span, Adrian Legg, and some rather lovely 
French accordion, bagpipe and hurdy-gurdy music which I never did
identify.
 
A week ago Friday, the band Cordelia's Dad played a fine show at
Ten Pound Fiddle in East Lansing.  The band has now settled on 
an all acoustic, all-traditional format.  They've added a 
fourth member, fiddler Laura Risk, who fills out the sound nicely.
 
Cordelia's Dad began around 1990 as a rock trio playing English and 
American folk songs.  I describe their first, self-titled CD as:
"The Ramones Play Folk Music."  Two years later, the band had ditched
the British material, and they were starting to venture into 
acoustic sounds.  HOW CAN I SLEEP, the CD from that period, is 
the best American electro-trad album I know of.

Then the band entered a period of turmoil....    (more to come)