For all the products on pharmacy shelves, people still use folk remedies for common ailments. Like the itchy rash that comes from poison ivy. Folkways Reporter Wendy Welch spoke with two health professionals about where folk cures and mainstream medicine overlap.
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Have you ever wondered how to create your own album? Or maybe were just curious as to how a band goes from their garage to professional recording studio? Let Matt Jackfert take you through a 10-step process of creating your very own album by following Charleston-based group, The Company Stores, as they went from playing in basements and garages in 2013, to releasing a full album in 2014 called Rollin’ In.
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Intense clapping session during “Street Corner Blues”
The first step may be simplest and the most difficult: Get off the Couch and Start Playing Music. Once you start playing real music with a regular group and go about it in an active, passionate way, things can start to happen–like getting a phone call to headline the Bramwell Beer Festival as the Company Stores did in 2013.
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Electro Voice interviewing mic from the early 60s. Did I mention that Don is really old school?
Discover the other 9 steps and listen to the album by clicking the play button at the top of the page.
Band Members: Casey Litz — Lead Singer Matt Marks — Guitar Joseph Cevallos — Violin, Trumpet, Harmonica, and a whole bunch of other stuff John Query — Percussion Grant Jacobs — Bass Joey Liegel — Former Bassist
To find out more about The Company Stores and to buy Rollin’ In, visit: thecompanystores.com
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