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Ruth Crawford was created for an itinerant Methodist minister and his wife. Upon graduating from senior high school, Crawford came into Foster’s College of Musical Artwork in Jacksonville, FL, learning piano. The Foster College relocated to Miami in 1921, and Crawford signed up for the American Conservatory of Music in …

Although Joanna Newsom’s Appalachian-meets-avant-garde undertake folk music is her most famous work, her range is a lot more inclusive than her solo career suggests: the classically trained harpist adds a decidedly different, textural sound to Anxious Cop, the noise rock trio that also features Deerhoof’s Greg Saunier and Hella’s Zach …