Eric & Suzy Thompson: Adam & Eve Had The Blues

Arhoolie Records – CD 5041

Format: CD, Album
Country: US
Released: 1989
Genre: Blues, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Blues, Cajun
[Tracklist]
01 Stop And Listen (3:18)
02 Three-In-One Two-Step (2:53)
03 Basile Waltz (3:33)
04 Blame It On The Blues (3:03)
05 Chaussettes Blues (2:55)
06 In My Girlish Days (2:21)
07 When I Get Home (3:02)
08 Valse de Balfa (3:10)
09 Adam & Eve Had The Blues (3:04)
10 Danse de Poullard (2:00)
11 Corrina, Corrina (3:25)
12 Carroll County Blues (3:16)
13 Mean Old Bedbug Blues (5:48)
[Credits]
Suzy Thompson (fiddle/guitar/vocals) Eric Thompson (guitar) Laurie Lewis (bass) Elizabeth Weil (bass) David Grisman (mandolin) Kevin Wimmer (fiddle) Danny Poullard (accordion/triangle) Will Scarlett (harmonica) Bill Bardin (trombone) George Fleming (trumpet) Earl Scheelar (clarinet) Charlie St. Mary (rubboard)
Producer: John Lumsdaine, Photographer: Anne Nadler, Engineer: Michael Cogan and Bob Shumakerg
[Notes]
Eric & Suzy Thompson have devoted their lives to the pursuit of weird and obscure old-time American music – warped fiddle tunes in odd tunings, cinematic ballads, country blues songs that contain mysterious metaphors, early Cajun music with incomprehensible French lyrics and backwards chords. Using fiddle, mandolin, guitars, Cajun accordion, banjo (and the occasional odd instrument such as the ten-stringed cuatro) they bring these early 20th century sounds right into the present day. "

Penny's Farm: Jim Kweskin & Geoff Muldaur

Kingswood Records KWR1603

Format: CD, Album
Country: US
Released: 2016
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk, Old Time
[Tracklist]
01 Diamond Joe (3:29)
02 The Boll Weevil (3:40)
03 Down on Penny's Farm (3:19)
04 Sweet To Mama (3:15)
05 My Mary (3:28)
06 Fishing Blues (3:04)
07 Louis Collins (Angels Laid Him Away) (3:20)
08 Just A Little While To Stay Here (3:20)
09 Gwabi Gwabi (3:05)
10 C-h-i-c-k-e-n (2:19)
11 The Cuckoo (4:21)
12 Downtown Blues (2:53)
13 99 Year Blues (3:30)
14 Tennessee Blues (4:32)
15 Frankie (3:51)
[Credits]
Jim Kweskin (banjo/guitar/vocals) Geoff Muldaur (banjo/guitar/kalimba/whistle/drums/vocals) Suzy Thompson (fiddle) Cindy Cashdollar (steel guitar/national tricone/vocals) Juli Crockett (vocals) Van Dyke Parks (accordion) Don Heffington and Paul Pouwer (brushes) Randy Landas and Kevin Smith (bass)
Cover Painting: Anthony Benton Gude, Designer: Erin Papa, Photographer: Don West, Liner Notes: Mary Katherine Aldin and John Sebastian, Engineers: Rick Cunha, Michael Feldman, Alan Silverman and Stuart Sullivan
[Notes]
50 years after collaborating in Jim Kweskin & the Jug Band, old friends Kweskin and Geoff Muldaur team up again for Penny's Farm, a straight shot of no-frills American folk music. The new music continues in the tradition of the original band's focus, which was less directed towards the injustice and struggle that many of their contemporaries railed against, but on good times and energetic, upbeat roots music.