Sonya Cohen Cramer - You've Been a Friend to Me

Recordings with Elizabeth Mitchell & Daniel Littleton, Last Forever, and the Seeger Family

Smithsonian Folkways – SFW40259

Format: CD, Album
Country: United States
Released: 2024
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk
[Tracklist
01 Oh, Blue: With Penny Seeger Cohen (02:04)
02 A Squirrel Is a Pretty Thing: With Peggy Seeger (01:38)
03 When I Was Most Beautiful: With Pete Seeger (02:55)
04 Hide and Seek: With Last Forever (03:23)
05 In the Pines: With Last Forever (02:35)
06 Louis Collins / Spike Driver Blues: With Last Forever (03:50)
07 All for You: With Last Forever (05:45)
08 You've Been a Friend to Me: With Elizabeth Mitchell and Daniel Littleton (03:24)
09 Black Jack Davey: With Elizabeth Mitchell and Daniel Littleton (05:23)
10 No Place to Fall: With Elizabeth Mitchell and Daniel Littleton (03:06)
11 Oh the Wind and Rain: With Elizabeth Mitchell and Daniel Littleton (03:32)
12 The Blacksmith: With Elizabeth Mitchell and Daniel Littleton (03:15)
13 Singing My Troubles Away: With Elizabeth Mitchell and Daniel Littleton (02:57)
14 Lowlands: With Elizabeth Mitchell and Daniel Littleton (05:04)
15 The Blackest Crow: With Elizabeth Mitchell and Daniel Littleton (02:16)
16 Sidewalk Wildflower: Sonya Cohen Cramer (04:46)
17 A Life That's Good: Sonya Cohen Cramer (03:08)
[Credits]
Producer: Reid Cramer, Dick Connette, Elizabeth Mitchell, and Daniel Littleton, Liner Notes: Carla Borden, Designer: Visual Dialogue, Mastering Engineer: Oscar Zambrano
[Notes]
Sonya Cohen Cramer (1965–2015) was raised in a family committed to revitalizing the oldest songs of the American musical canon. Like her father John Cohen of The New Lost City Ramblers, Sonya shared a belief in the transformative qualities of folk songs and traditional ballads. You've Been a Friend to Me is the first collection featuring Sonya's singing, and it reveals the full arc of her musical life through collaborations with her aunt Peggy Seeger, uncle Pete Seeger, Elizabeth Mitchell, Daniel Littleton, and the folk-fusion group Last Forever. While shaped by the roots of her family tree, the radiating and clear sound of Sonya's voice is distinctly her own.