Folk Music Notebook

American folk music contains multitudes - Appalachian traditions, blues roots, contemporary singer-songwriters all claiming legitimate inheritance. Folk Music Notebook treats the genre with archaeological seriousness. Two hundred fifty-six kilobits provides exceptional quality for acoustic instruments and intimate vocal recordings where detail matters. The programming moves chronologically through folk's evolution while avoiding nostalgia traps that treat older material as museum pieces. Contemporary folk artists including Sturgill Simpson and Jason Isbell represent music's living traditions a…