Carrie & Michael Kline - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Michael and Carrie Nobel Kline operate Talking Across the Lines: Worldwide Conversations, LLC, a folklife documentary consulting and production firm. Together with students and community interns they seek to give voice to a wide range of views on historical and current events. Talking Across the Lines documents people of diverse ethnic and economic backgrounds through broadcast quality audio recordings and still photography.

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We present our music both as entertainment and social history, with engaging ease and hard-hitting passion. As two people absorbed in the study of oral tradition, we spend time with old-time singers and tellers living in the Appalachian region. Singing to audiences of all ages, we perform in a variety of situations; from classrooms to prisons, from coffeehouses to picket lines.

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Member Since: 6/7/2007
Band Website: folktalk.org
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Sounds Like: We, as musicians, are preoccupied with West Virginia songs, from the ancient ballads of the Hammons Family in the central highlands, to mining laments and songs of resistance in the coal fields. We enjoy love ballads and country songs as well, especially the poignant imagery of Kate Wolf and Laurie Lewis.
Record Label: Talking Across the Lines, LLC
Type of Label: Indie