| ARTIST |
ALBUM |
LABEL |
COMMENTS |
| Tom Dundee |
Fleeting Moments |
Flyte |
Concert recordings over the 25-year career of this wonderful
human being and singer-songwriter who died too young in 2006. |
| Friends of Old-Time Music |
The Folk Arrival 1961-65 (box set) |
Smithsonian Folkways |
Excerpts from an amazing moment in the early 1960s when older, mostly
southern musicians were "discovered" by ardent folk music and blues fans
and brought to New York for a series of stunning concerts and a meeting
of cultures largely unfamiliar with each other that would be impossible
today. |
| Golden Gate Quartet |
1941-1952 |
Fremeaux (France) |
Great, mostly gospel recordings. Not new, but new to me. |
| Great American Taxi |
Great American Taxi |
Great American Taxi |
Wonderful debut album from new folk-rockish band with Vince Herman of
Leftover Salmon |
| Stefan Grossman, Danny Kalb and Steve Katz |
Played A Little Fiddle |
Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop |
Relaxed, delightful picking and singing from these veterans of the
early 60s folk, blues and, for Kalb (Blues Project) and Katz (Blood,
Sweat & Tears) rock worlds as well |
| Erwin Helfer |
I'm Not Hungry But I Like To Eat Blues |
The Sirens |
More delightful boogie woogie, blues and jazz piano playing from this
Chicago player. This album, new to me, is from 2001 |
| Marie Knight |
A Tribute to Reverend Gary Davis |
M.C. |
Real nice versions of 12 Gary Davis songs by a longtime gospel singer
who only recently learned of him |
| John Lilly |
Haunted Honky Tonk |
John Lilly Music |
Old-timey, honky-tonk, mix of new and old songs in a neat, unique
style |
| Joel Mabus |
Banjo Monologues |
Fossil |
Stories - about the tunes, about the banjo, about Mabus's life and
observations - seamlessly melded into expert banjo playing and singing. |
| John Sebastian and David Grisman |
Satisfied |
Acoustic Disc |
Delightful playing by these two great players who met in an NYU dorm
in 1961 and only recently met up again |
| Pete Seeger |
…at the Village Gate, Vol I & II |
Smithsonian Folkways |
These Pete Seeger albums are far from new but they are a perfect
complement to Bruce Springsteen’s Seeger Sessions albums and shows.
Recorded in 1960 and 1962 in nightclub concerts with blues piano player
and bassist Memphis Slim and Willie Dixon, Pete leads his audiences to
multi-part exuberant sing-a-longs that are both wonderful music and dramatic
displays of the power of his performances and the way in which he, like
Springsteen, could hold a crowd in the palm of his hand and have them follow him
willing to follow him anywhere. |
| Chris Smither |
Leave The Light On |
Signature Sounds |
Absolutely terrific album |
| Mavis Staples |
We’ll Never Turn Back |
Anti- |
Gospel and civil rights songs with amazing singing and great music
produced and led by Ry Cooder and lyrics elegantly updated. |
| Tony Trischka |
Double Banjo Bluegrass Spectacular |
Rounder |
Not only a great banjo player but also a very influential one,
Trischka has recorded a nice collection of songs and tunes,
collaborating on each one with a different wonderful banjo player
including Earl Scruggs, Alison Brown, Bela Fleck and Steve Martin. |
| Uncle Earl |
Waterloo, Tennessee |
Rounder |
Lovely light-bluegrass sound and sensibility from this talented
Colorado-based band. |
| Halden Wofford & The Hi-Beams |
Midnight Rodeo |
Hibeams.com |
A sort of rockabilly-bluegrass-jazzish sound with some wonderfully odd
and unexpected lyrics. |
