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Raising Sand
from: Rounder
:Album Description:The musical collaboration of the decade, Raising Sand is the sound of two iconic figures stepping out of their respective comfort zones and letting their instincts lead them across a brave new sonic landscape. Despite hailing from distinctly different backgrounds, Alison Krauss and Robert Plant share a maverick spirit and willingness to extend the boundaries of their respective genres. This spirit, expertly honed by producer T Bone Burnett, has resulted in an album pitched three steps beyond some cosmic collision of early urban blues, ...
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O Brother, Where Art Thou?
: 's Best of 2001:The best soundtracks are like movies for the ears, and O Brother, Where Art Thou? joins the likes of Saturday Night Fever and The Harder They Come as cinematic pinnacles of song. The music from the Coen brothers' Depression-era film taps into the source from which the purest strains of country, blues, bluegrass, folk, and gospel music flow. Producer T Bone Burnett enlists the voices of Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch, Emmylou Harris, Ralph Stanley, and kindred spirits for performances of traditional material, ...
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Dona Got a Ramblin Mind
:Album Description:AS HEARD ON NPR! 'Even though the music's being played right in front of you, you expect to hear crackles and hisses as if the sounds were being torn from a salvaged 78.' - Independent Weekly Terrific renditions of old-time classics from the Carolina Chocolate Drops as they reclaim their African American NC Piedmont string band musical traditions! This young group is the hottest thing to hit the old-time music community in decades, and have grabbed the attention of folks like Taj Mahal, Mike ...
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Hoodoo Man Blues
: essential recording:This 1965 album is where vocalist and harmonica player Junior Wells comes into his own. An early collaboration with Buddy Guy, the two of them sum up the 1960s funk-rock-blues that lay ahead. Hoodoo Man Blues inspired Paul Butterfield, Eric Clapton, and a host of other musician-fans. Wells and Guy don't shy from creating James Brown-funkified blues, or from putting a rock edge to their blues; but neither do they shy from traditional blues. Their version of 'Good Morning Little School Girl' is ...
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The Definitive Collection
: essential recording:This 1965 album is where vocalist and harmonica player Junior Wells comes into his own. An early collaboration with Buddy Guy, the two of them sum up the 1960s funk-rock-blues that lay ahead. Hoodoo Man Blues inspired Paul Butterfield, Eric Clapton, and a host of other musician-fans. Wells and Guy don't shy from creating James Brown-funkified blues, or from putting a rock edge to their blues; but neither do they shy from traditional blues. Their version of 'Good Morning Little School Girl' is ...
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We'll Never Turn Back
:Album Description:From the liner notes, by John Lewis: When I listen to this music, it takes me back. It takes me back to the red clay hills of Georgia, to the Black Belt of Alabama, and the Delta of Mississippi. It takes me back to the moans and groans and pains of an oppressed people yearning for freedom. It takes me back to the time when hundreds and thousands of us decided we were 'sick and tired of being sick and tired,' as Fannie Lou ...
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Anthology Of American Folk Music (Edited By Harry Smith)
:Album Description:This deluxe 6-CD collector's boxed set contains a 96-page book featuring Harry Smith's original songbook framed by essays by Greil Marcus and other noted writers, musicians, and scholars. Play the enhanced sixth disc on your CD-ROM drive and access historic video footage, rare photos, artist interviews, and additional background information. Edited by Harry Smith. Reissue compiled by the staff of Smithsonian Folkways. Reissue liner notes by Greil Marcus, Neil Rosenberg, Jeff Place, Jon Pankake, Luis Kemnitzer and others. '...the missing link in rock's official ...
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American Folk-Blues Festival: The British Tours 1963-1966 [DVD]
: :Recorded live for TV broadcast throughout Britain these historic performances have been unseen for nearly 40 years. Filmed with superb camera work and pristine sound 14 complete performances and 4 bonus performances are included by Sonny Boy Williamson Muddy Waters Lonnie Johnson Big Joe Williams Lightnin' Hopkins Sugar Pie DeSanto Howlin' Wolf Big Joe Turner Junior Wells and Sister Rosetta Tharpe.Song Titles: Keep It To Yourself (Williamson) Got My Mojo Working (Waters) Too Late To Cry (Johnson) Baby Please Don't Go (Williams) Bye Bye ...
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The Definitive Collection
: :Recorded live for TV broadcast throughout Britain these historic performances have been unseen for nearly 40 years. Filmed with superb camera work and pristine sound 14 complete performances and 4 bonus performances are included by Sonny Boy Williamson Muddy Waters Lonnie Johnson Big Joe Williams Lightnin' Hopkins Sugar Pie DeSanto Howlin' Wolf Big Joe Turner Junior Wells and Sister Rosetta Tharpe.Song Titles: Keep It To Yourself (Williamson) Got My Mojo Working (Waters) Too Late To Cry (Johnson) Baby Please Don't Go (Williams) Bye Bye ...
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The Complete Recordings
: :This two-CD box contains all 41 recordings Johnson made, including 12 alternate takes, and each cut remains a classic. This set's release in 1990 caused quite a stir, selling more than 500,000 copies, and, on the basis of endorsements from Eric Clapton and Keith Richards, introduced a great number of rock fans to Delta blues. Amazingly, Johnson built his enormous legacy on the strength of just two recording sessions: the first session, in November of 1936, produced among others 'I Believe I'll Dust My Broom,' ...
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