tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-448836117193936390.post2604242716057857709..comments2023-04-05T09:53:24.912-04:00Comments on notloB Music: Best local albums of 2013?Jeff Boudreauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12664481414678271009noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-448836117193936390.post-77246590927232364742013-12-28T14:43:30.345-05:002013-12-28T14:43:30.345-05:00Scott was let go from the Boston Globe in 2008 or ...Scott was let go from the Boston Globe in 2008 or 2009, about the same time WUMB went pop AAA and the new board of directors came into power at Club Passim, cleaning house/terminating Betsy Siggins, Millie Rahm and Tim Mason.<br />A triple loss for the Boston-area folk community.<br /><br />"Scott Alarik covered folk music in the Boston Globe for over 20 years. Pete Seeger calls him "one of the best writers in America" and the Library Journal called his first book, Deep Community: Adventures in the Modern Folk Underground, "an essential primer of the continuing folk revival." Alarik is also a singer-songwriter who toured the national folk circuit and performed regularly on A Prairie Home Companion."<br />http://scottalarik.com/Jeff Boudreauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12664481414678271009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-448836117193936390.post-11594963753389636122013-12-28T14:08:49.950-05:002013-12-28T14:08:49.950-05:00Thanks, Jeff, for pointing out this serious omissi...Thanks, Jeff, for pointing out this serious omission in Globe music coverage for 2013. Whatever happened to Scott Alarik? The Globe *used to* report about the folk, etc., scene.<br /><br />Bob SpragueBob Spraguehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10005585181300122047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-448836117193936390.post-47096803708171753432013-12-28T14:08:22.399-05:002013-12-28T14:08:22.399-05:00Thanks, Jeff, for pointing out this serious omissi...Thanks, Jeff, for pointing out this serious omission in Globe music coverage for 2013. Whatever happened to Scott Alarik? The Globe *used to* report about the folk, etc., scene.<br /><br />Bob SpragueBob Spraguehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10005585181300122047noreply@blogger.com