|
|
|
American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 1
:Album Description:Recorded during the heart of the great 'folk song revival' of the 1950s and 1960s, Pete Seeger's American Favorite Ballads was and is a classic series of albums. Ballads contains definitive bits of Americana that have been a part of our lives for more than a half century, including songs like 'This Land is Your Land,' 'America the Beautiful,' 'John Henry,' and 'Shenandoah.' This CD is the first in a series of Ballad reissues, and essential for any fan of American folk music to own. Compiled and annotated by Jeff ...
|
|
|
Matters of the Heart
:Album Description:Recorded during the heart of the great 'folk song revival' of the 1950s and 1960s, Pete Seeger's American Favorite Ballads was and is a classic series of albums. Ballads contains definitive bits of Americana that have been a part of our lives for more than a half century, including songs like 'This Land is Your Land,' 'America the Beautiful,' 'John Henry,' and 'Shenandoah.' This CD is the first in a series of Ballad reissues, and essential for any fan of American folk music to own. Compiled and annotated by Jeff ...
|
|
|
One Fair Summer Evening
: essential recording:Nanci Griffith first built her audience through intimate, well-timed, and energetic concerts. This live set, recorded in August 1988 at the legendary Anderson Fair in Houston, contains her best performances of originals like 'Workin' in Corners,' 'The Wing and the Wheel,' and 'Love at the Five and Dime,' as well as songs by Bill Staines, Eric Taylor, and Julie Gold, songs she helped bring just shy of fame: 'Roseville Fair,' 'Deadwood, South Dakota,' and 'From a Distance.' Griffith learned her craft and got her chops down at Anderson Fair, ...
|
|
|
Escondida
: :Jolie Holland's first album recorded in an actual studio is a sumptuous affair that extends her indie country and folk sound further into the realms of old-school jazz and country blues. But this is no quaint revivalism; ye olde sounds are made modern by smart lyrics that reference feminist writer/adventurer Isabelle Eberhardt on the whimsical 'Old Fashion Morphine,' or that speak of 'a couple of food stamps and a caffeine buzz' on 'Poor Girl.' The arrangements are subtle and sophisticated, showing more breadth than those on her debut, Catalpa, with fewer ...
|
|
|
Classic African American Gospel from Smithsonian Folkways
:Album Description:Spirituals, guitar evangelists, 'shout' bands, quartets, and choirs sing out the sacred sounds of African American gospel music. This Smithsonian Folkways 'Classic' spans over a half century of select recordings to paint a broad panorama of this cherished American musical creation. Reverend Gary Davis, Sister Ernestine Washington, Sonny Terry, the Fisk Jubilee Singers, and Elizabeth Cotten are among those featured on these 24 tracks of soulful song. 32 page booklet, 75 minutes.
|
|
|
south of delia
: :This stunning new album from Richard Shindell his seventh finds this artist inhabiting the words and music of his favorite songwriters. But this is more than just a collection of covers. This is a Richard Shindell record. Familiar classics are transformed, and new songs receive a definitive reading. Spurred on by first-rate musicians Richard Thompson, Eliza Gilkyson, Larry Campbell, Viktor Krauss, Tony Trischka, and Lucy Kaplansky to name a few every song on South of Delia is meticulously crafted. American roots music doesnt get any better. RICHARSHINDELL A tour-de-force of ...
|
|
|
Western Wall: The Tucson Sessions
: :Emmylou Harris once said of her four-shows-a-night salad days that she refused to sing anything on the hit parade, opting only for 'bizarre, left-field songs' that 'made it hard to make a living.' Decades later, Harris still spends a lot of time in left field, and it's those offbeat, haunting gems--more than the classics here from Leonard Cohen or Jackson Browne--that make Western Wall: The Tucson Sessions, her duet album with Linda Ronstadt, so memorable. That, and her exquisitely pained soprano--reminiscent of 'cracked crystal,' as Linda puts it--nestled up against Ronstadt's ...
|
|
|
Lost Dogs and Mixed Blessings
: :Emmylou Harris once said of her four-shows-a-night salad days that she refused to sing anything on the hit parade, opting only for 'bizarre, left-field songs' that 'made it hard to make a living.' Decades later, Harris still spends a lot of time in left field, and it's those offbeat, haunting gems--more than the classics here from Leonard Cohen or Jackson Browne--that make Western Wall: The Tucson Sessions, her duet album with Linda Ronstadt, so memorable. That, and her exquisitely pained soprano--reminiscent of 'cracked crystal,' as Linda puts it--nestled up against Ronstadt's ...
|
|
|
The Best of Arlo Guthrie
: :Though several of Guthrie's records contain hidden gems well worth seeking out, his best-known songs are fairly obvious and easy to assemble on a single greatest-hits package. A hefty chunk of this record is taken up by the epic 'Alice's Restaurant,' which clocks in at 18-and-a-half minutes. Yet--while it's a definitive element of late 1960s counterculture--it's not his best song, either as writer or as performer. For the latter, his version of Steve Goodman's classic 'City of New Orleans' remains the pinnacle of his career; among his own songs, it's hard ...
|
|
|
From a Distance: The Very Best of Nanci Griffith
:Album Description:Features 22 tracks from her 5 MCA albums. 96k/24-bit mastered from the original master tapes. Includes the signature tunes as well as live versions of her key Philo hits. 2002. :Well, the title is misleading, as this collection showcases only her MCA era; a more accurate designation would be From a Distance: The Best Stuff Nanci Griffith Did After She Left Philo and Before She Went to Elektra, but maybe that's not catchy enough. What is compelling is the music itself. During the period of 1987 to 1991, Griffith wrote ...
|
|
