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ponedjeljak, 13.01.2014.

The Chieftains - Further Down the Old Plank Road

Styles: Traditional Irish Folk, Traditional Celtic, Traditional Folk, Celtic Folk, Traditional Country, North American Traditions, Appalachian
Released: 2003
Label: RCA/Victor Records
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 126,7 MB
Time: 55:05
Art: front + back

1. Chieftains /w Nickel Creek - The Raggle Taggle Gypsy - 3:09
2. Chieftains /w John Hiatt - Jordan Is A Hard Road To Travel - 3:29
3. Chieftains /w Allison Moorer - Hick's Farewell - 4:27
4. Chieftains /w Tim OBrien - Shady Grove - 2:18
5. Chieftains /w John Prine - The Girl I Left Behind - 3:13
6. Chieftains /w Jerry Douglas - Rosc Catha Na Mumhain/Arkansas Traveller/The Wild Irishman - 4:19
7. Chieftains /w Emmylou Harris - Lambs In The Greenfield - 3:19
8. Chieftains /w Joe Ely - The Moonshiner/I'm A Rambler - 3:13
9. Chieftains /w Don Williams - Wild Mountain Thyme - 3:55
10. Chieftains /w Chet Atkins - Chief O'Neill's Hornpipe - 1:55
11. Chieftains /w Carlene Carter - Bandit Of Love/The Cheatin' Waltz - 3:13
12. Chieftains /w Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - The Squid Jiggin' Ground/Larry O'Gaff - 3:15
13. Chieftains /w Patty Loveless - Three Little Babes - 4:09
14. Chieftains /w Doc Watson - Fisherman's Hornpipe/The Devil's Dream - 2:10
15. Chieftains /w Ricky Skaggs - Talk About Suffering/Main Of The House - 4:34
16. Chieftains /w Rosanne Cash - The Lily Of The West - 4:21


Note: In 2002, the legendary and insanely prolific Irish ensemble the Chieftains released Down the Old Plank Road: The Nashville Sessions. Utilizing American icons like Ricky Skaggs, Del McCoury, and Lyle Lovett alongside the blossoming Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, their interpretations of traditional Irish and Appalachian staples yielded a surprisingly lucid bounty. Not surprisingly, the sessions also yielded another record. Further Down the Old Plank Road: The Nashville Sessions follows the same thread on the neo-traditional loom, pitting the Celtic heroes against such heavyweights as Doc Watson, John Prine, and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, while incorporating younger artists like Nickel Creek. The Chieftains, possibly the tightest veteran band still performing, have made a career out of effortless creativity and sheer enthusiasm, especially for projects like this one. On the gorgeous "Chief O'Neil's Hornpipe," Paddy Maloney's bittersweet piping effortlessly segues into Chet Atkins' understated picking. It's like listening to a couple of old friends sharing a beer on a Sunday evening. Emmylou Harris croons "Lambs in the Greenfield" that'll leave a lump in your throat, and Tim O'Brien tears through a version of "Shady Grove," fueled by the ancestral flames of its birth. Only the forced soul of Allison Moorer's "Hick's Farewell" and Don Williams' rendering of the classic ballad "Wild Mountain Thyme" keep Further Down the Old Plank Road from being a major achievement. ~ James Christopher Monger


Further Down the Old Plank Road



• The Chieftains - Down The Old Plank Road
• Various - Good For What Ails You

Posted by muddy

Oznake: The Chieftains, Traditional Irish Folk, Traditional Folk, Traditional Country, Appalachian
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ponedjeljak, 16.12.2013.

Elizabeth Cotten - Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 35:03
Size: 80.2 MB
Styles: Folk, Country, Appalachian
Year: 1989
Art: Front

[1:41] 1. Wilson rag
[2:46] 2. Freight train
[2:12] 3. Going down the road feeling bad
[1:14] 4. I don't love nobody
[0:57] 5. Ain't got no honey baby now
[2:33] 6. Graduation march
[2:15] 7. Honey baby your papa cares for you
[2:11] 8. Vastopol
[3:49] 9. Here old rattler here / Sent for my fiddle sent for my bow (Sent for my fiddle sent for my son) / Georgia Buck
[2:19] 10. Run...run / Mama your son done gone
[3:03] 11. Sweet bye and bye / What a friend we have in Jesus
[4:43] 12. Oh babe it ain't no lie
[2:51] 13. Spanish Flang Dang
[2:23] 14. When I get home


Elizabeth Cotten was born in January of 1895 in Chapel Hill, NC, where her father worked in the mines and her mother was a maid servant and laundress. She began playing guitar at the age of eight, secretly practicing on her older brother's instrument. At the age of 12, she began to work with her mother in helping the family to scrape by, though she continued to play music with her family, in particular her siblings.

Sometime around 1912 she was married and joined the church, which occasioned her to give up playing music for the next 25 years. Through a series of strange accidents, she once found the daughter of Peggy and Pete Seeger in a department store and came to work for them, which led to her re-involvement with music. She played frequently during the '60s and '70s, often with Mike Seeger; the recordings collected here were made during 1957 and 1958 at her home in Washington. Cotten has a very distinctive picking style and a beautifully fragile and off-key voice; both make these recordings a pleasure. Included are a mix of originals and personal versions. Of note are "Vastopol," which sounds nothing like the John Fahey version, and "Sweet Bye and Bye," of which this version might be specific to North Carolina. Also enjoyable is "Honey Babe Your Papa Cares for You," whose melodically vague style is characteristic of Cotten's ear and unique way of suppressing melody. If this album intrigues you, you might want to check out her live album on Arhoolie, which some believe to be even better. ~ Brian Whitener

Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes

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Oznake: Elizabeth Cotten, folk, Country, Appalachian
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petak, 27.09.2013.

Various - Good For What Ails You: Music Of The Medicine Shows (1926-1937)

Styles: Old-Timey, Appalachian, Minstrel, String Bands, Acoustic Blues, Jug Band, Songster
Label: Old Hat Records
Released: 2005
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 167,4 + 163,2 MB
Time: 73:07 + 71:16
Art: front

Disc 1
1. Daddy Stovepipe & Mississippi Sarah - The Spasm - 2:52
2. Gid Tanner & Riley Puckett - Tanner's Boarding House - 3:05
3. Lil McClintock - Don't Think I'm Santa Claus - 3:06
4. Dallas String Band with Coley Jones - Hokum Blues - 3:14
5. Shorty Godwin - Jimbo Jambo Land - 2:57
6. Fiddlin' John Carson & His Virginia Reelers - Gonna Swing On The Golden Gate - 2:57
7. Pink Anderson & Simmie Dooley - Papa's 'Bout To Get Mad - 2:59
8. Charlie Parker & Mack Woolbright - The Man Who Wrote Home Sweet Home Never Was A Married Man - 3:14
9. Jim Jackson - Bye, Bye, Policeman - 3:03
10. Walter Smith - The Bald-Headed End Of A Broom - 2:56
11. Allen Brothers - Bow Wow Blues - 3:21
12. Beans Hambone & El Morrow - Beans - 2:53
13. Stovepipe #1 and David Crockett - A Chicken Can Waltz The Gravy Around - 3:08
14. Grant Brothers & Their Music - Tell It To Me - 2:57
15. Carolina Tar Heels - Ain't No Use Working So Hard - 3:08
16. Walter Cole - Mama Keep Your Yes Ma'am Clean - 2:47
17. Kirk McGee & Blythe Poteet - C-H-I-C-K-E-N Spells Chicken - 2:54
18. Banjo Joe - My Money Never Runs Out - 2:53
19. Henry 'Ragtime Texas' Thomas - Railroadin' Some - 3:19
20. Prince Albert Hunt's Texas Ramblers - Traveling Man - 2:55
21. Johnson-Nelson-Porkchop - G. Burns Is Gonna Rise Again - 3:01
22. Blue Ridge Mountain Entertainers - Baby All Night Long - 2:47
23. Chris Bouchillon - Born In Hard Luck - 3:19
24. Memphis Sheiks - He's In The Jailhouse Now - 3:11

Disc 2
1. Pink Anderson & Simmie Dooley - Gonna Tip Out Tonight - 3:09
2. Sam McGee - Chevrolet Car - 3:09
3. Gid Tanner & His Skillet-Lickers - It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo' - 2:58
4. Cannon's Jug Stompers - Bring It With You When You Come - 2:45
5. Blind Sammie - Atlanta Strut - 3:11
6. Uncle Dave Macon & His Fruit Jar Drinkers - Go Along Mule - 3:07
7. Earl McDonald's Original Louisville Jug Band - Casey Bill - 2:48
8. Frank Stokes - I Got Mine - 3:06
9. Chris Bouchillon - Hannah - 2:57
10. Bogus Ben Covington - Adam & Eve In The Garden - 2:42
11. Alec Johnson & His Band - Mysterious Coon - 3:15
12. Carolina Tar Heels - Her Name Was Hula Lou - 2:59
13. Three Tobacco Tags - Reno Blues - 2:39
14. Papa Charlie Jackson - Scoodle Um Skoo - 3:17
15. Frank Hutchison - Stackalee - 3:05
16. Walter Smith - The Cat's Got The Measles, The Dog's Got The Whooping Cough - 2:59
17. Hezekiah Jenkins - Shout You Cats - 3:08
18. Tommie Bradley - Nobody's Business If I Do - 2:58
19. Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers - Sweet Sixteen - 2:52
20. Charlie Parker & Mack Woolbright - Ticklish Reuben - 2:40
21. Jim Jackson - I Heard The Voice Of A Porkchop - 2:52
22. Dallas String Band with Coley Jones - Shine - 3:01
23. Emmett Miller & His Georgia Crackers - The Gypsy - 3:21
24. J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers - Kiss Me Cindy - 2:06

Notes: Before motion pictures... before radio... before television... the traveling medicine shows brought entertainment to America. Flamboyant pitch doctors roamed the land, hawking their tonics, elixirs, and miracle cures, and with them came a host of singers, dancers, comedians, banjo pickers, blues shouters, jug blowers, string ticklers, and minstrel men. The shows died out by mid-20th century, but not before a handful of seasoned veterans left their musical legacy on phonograph records. Here are 48 classic performances by such colorful names as Pink Anderson, Daddy Stovepipe, Shorty Godwin, Gid Tanner, Banjo Joe, the Three Tobacco Tags, and many more—well over two hours of this extraordinary music. A 72-page color booklet details the fascinating history of the medicine shows with a profusion of rare photographs, artifacts, illustrations, full discography, and song descriptions. Three years in the making, the new release from Old Hat Records is a groundbreaking survey of music from the American medicine show, that peculiar form of theater that merged entertainment with merchandising. Good For What Ails You is a two-CD set that delivers a generous mix of 48 songs, many available nowhere else, first recorded nearly 80 years ago and now remastered with digital clarity.

Good For What Ails You was nominated for two Grammy Awards: Best Album Notes and Best Histornical Album. ~ Old Hat Records

“Like Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music, these 48 tracks provide a fine introduction to what Greil Marcus called ‘the old, weird America.’ If nothing else, such a cornucopia of delights will cure the modern day blues.” –Casper Llewellyn Smith, Guardian Unlimited, July 16, 2006

Bluebird“Factor in assorted skillet lickers, jug stompers, fruit jar drinkers, ramblers, crackers, tarheels and tobacco tags, and you have a buried history of vernacular music, therapeutic culture and politics second to none. Recommended; or rather, prescribed.” –Brian Morton, The Wire, November 2005

“When you go out on tour and play with different bands every day, or you play in bars all the time, your tastes start to become very selective... What I’m listening to most of the time at present is an album called Good For What Ails You, which is an album of songs that people used to listen to at medicine shows all over the States. It’s quite an interesting album and I think that people would be well advised to pick it up.” –Jack White, White Stripes, December 2005

Good For What Ails You: Music of the Medicine Shows 1926-1937



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Oznake: Various, Old-Timey, Appalachian, Minstrel, String Bands, Acoustic Blues, Jug Band, Songster
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