January 28, 2021

Long Time Passing: Kronos Quartet and Friends Celebrate Pete Seeger

SFW 40240
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings – SFW 40240

Format: CD, Album
Country: US
Released: Oct 9, 2020
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk
[Tracklist]
01 Which Side Are You On? (2:21)
02 The President Sang Amazing Grace (3:58)
03 Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram (3:40)
04 Waist Deep in the Big Muddy (3:23)
05 Jarama Valley (Live In Barcelona) (3:19)
06 Garbage (3:09)
07 Storyteller (16:29)
08 Mbube (Wimoweh/The Lion Sleeps Tonight) (2:43)
09 If I Had A Hammer (2:07)
10 Where Have All The Flowers Gone? (4:05)
11 Step By Step (3:02)
12 Anda Jaleo (Live In Barcelona) (2:08)
13 Kisses Sweeter Than Wine (3:12)
14 Turn, Turn, Turn (3:58)
15 We Shall Overcome (5:08)
[Credits]
Kronos Quartet (ensemble) David Harrington and John Sherba (violin) Hank Dutt (viola) Sunny Jang (cello)
Aoife O'Donovan, Brian Carpenter, Maria Arnal, Meklit Hadero and Sam Amidon (vocals)
Producer: Janet Cowperthwaite and Reshena Liao, Engineer: Bob Ludwig
[Notes]
On Long Time Passing, the trailblazing Kronos Quartet celebrates the music of Pete Seeger and rejoices in the spirit, inspiration, and fearlessness inherent in his life's work. Along with guests Sam Amidon, Maria Arnal, Brian Carpenter, Meklit, Lee Knight, and Aoife O'Donovan, the group examines Seeger's celebration of beauty and the pleasure of singing together. Through the power of these eternally relevant cries for unity and moral integrity, the album articulates the responsibility we have as citizens and members of a greater community to question war and injustice, and to develop the courage to raise our voices together both in word and song.

January 23, 2021

Tribute To The Stanley Brothers by Keith Whitley And Ricky Skaggs

JLP-129
Jalyn Records JLP-129

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: US
Released: 1971
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Bluegrass
[Tracklist]
A1 We'll Be Sweethearts In Heaven
A2 Mother No Longer Awaits Me At Home
A3 White Dove
A4 Our Last Goodby
A5 Lonesome River
A6 I Love No One But You
B1 The Angels Are Singing In Heaven Tonight
B2 It's Never Too Late
B3 Loving You Too Well
B4 Too Late To Cry
B5 Little Glass Of Wine
B6 I Long To See The Old Folks
[Credits]
Keith Whitley (guitar/fiddle/lead vocals) Ricky Skaggs (mandolin/tenor vocals) Roy Lee Centers (banjo) Curly Ray Cline (fiddle) Jack Cooke (bass)
Liner notes: Ralph Stanleyliner notes
[Notes]
The young duo – at the time Keith Whitley was 15 years old and Ricky Skaggs was aged 16 years old – cut a dozen of the Stanley Brothers' best-known songs, not long after Ralph Stanley discovered them singing in a bar in Ft. Gay, West Virginia. Stanley, hardly believing that he wasn’t listening to a jukebox is reputed to have remarked that they "sounded just like me and Carter in the early days".

January 1, 2021

Happy New Year 2021

Warmest wishes to all for a wonderful holiday season and for much happiness in the new year.