Release Date: 2003
Audio CD
Tracks
- John The Revelator (The Plaster Saints)
- The Drinking Gourd (Mark Erelli)
- Southern Girl?’s Reply (Tim Eriksen)
- Ain?’t No Grave (Kris Delmhorst)
- Is The Battle Over? (Sixty Acres)
- Box The Fox (Timothy The Revelator)
- Corine, Corinna (The Midnight Cowboys)
- Rose Connelly (Ware River Club)
- Riding In The Buggy, Miss Mary Jane (The Lisa Marr Experiment)
- Shenandoah (Last Train Home)
- Last Kind Words Blues (Philip Stevenson & Mary Battiata)
- McPherson?’s Lament (Magnet)
- Sinful To Flirt (The Scrimshanders)
- No More Booze (Karl Straub And The Graverobbers)
- Midnight on the Stormy Deep (The Dixie Cannonballs)
- I Know You Rider (Mark McKay And Scott Murawski)
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Rating 4.0
Some Other Great AlbumsI am a big fan of roots music. This album is a fantastic treat that consistently delivers great music, song after song. If you enjoy this album and are looking for some similar great roots albums then I recommend the following:
1) Appalachian Stomp: Bluegrass Classics
2) Avalon Blues by Mississippi John Hurt
3) March 16-20 by Uncle Tupelo
4) Beautiful Dreamer: The Songs Of Stephen Foster
5) Every Sound Below by Tim Eriksen Support the artists, not the middle manMake no mistake, the music on this cd is really great. Do some research online and you'll probably find more than I did, but I did find that Kris Delmhorst's version of Ain't No Grave is on the Signature Records sampler and Scott Murawski (from Max Creek)'s song with Mark McKay was played on David Gans' Grateful Dead Hour. You can find free downloads if you poke around online. The musicians here did respectable work, all of them, and I do recommend the cd. However, these compilations bug me because I know the artists don't get one dime for "donating" their songs. So I personally recommend buying THEIR OWN discs from the artists you like on this. Not that you shouldn't buy this cd (although maybe just burning a copy would be a perfect compromise to be able to hear the music), but these things are an injustice.WonderfulI could never have imagined in a million years that a compilation of old traditional and Public Domain songs could be so entertaining and catchy and modern sounding. This cd has fast become one of my all-time favourites. These songs have come alive once more for a new generation. It just goes to show that good songs never die. This is a cd that should be in everyone's collection. |
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