May 20, 2023

Fast Folk Musical Magazine Volume 8, Number 5

Fast Folk Musical Magazine – FFFF805
Undercurrents - The Hudson Valley Musician's Alliance November 1995

Format: CD, Album
Country: US
Released: 1995
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk
[Tracklist]
01 I Was Born: The New Middle Class (03:09)
02 Ghost out on the Field: Carrie Berman (03:40)
03 My Eyes Don't Lie: Mark Shepard (04:05)
04 Broken Mirror: Katherine Archer (04:21)
05 I Must Be Doing Something Wrong: Dan Pelletier (03:01)
06 Hey Girl: Sloan Wainwright (03:07)
07 I Was a Loner: Monty Delaney (02:31)
08 Don't Mourn, Don't Cry: Dean Friedman (03:38)
09 Straddling the Line: Jean Bratman (03:21)
10 Blame the Gun: Stuart Kabak (03:32)
11 Casting to All Sides: Fraunty Dunn (03:41)
12 Superman's Midlife Crisis: Joe Giacoio (04:45)
13 Hungry Wolf: Mimi Cross (04:30)
14 The Hawk: Lora Lee Amram (03:37)
15 These Things Take Some Time: James Hovan (03:26)
16 Wild Acadia Snows: Bill Bless (04:28)
17 Till the End of Time: Mark Reynolds (03:34)
18 It's a Girl: Out to Lunch (03:03)
[Credits]
Producer: Stuart Kaybak, Editor: Jack Hardy, Postmaster Colonel: Nick Harber, Engineer: Peter Beckman, Mark Dann, Mattew Weiner and Rob Lehmann, Graphics: Tim Robinson
[Notes]
"As you listen to the tracks on this CD, you'll find they have a few things in common. The artists are singer-songwriters from the Hudson Valley who play mostly acoustic instruments. The songs are vocals ranging from about two-and-a-half to five minutes in length. But other than that, they are not easy to categorize . . . Each song is a unique musical statement by a single artist, or sometimes a small group, working independently at the creative process. So how did this diverse collection of musicians end up on one CD? The answer lies in a musical community that has evolved in New York State's Hudson Valley, bound together in recent years by an organization called the Musicians Alliance." - Walt Graham.

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