Home Field [Import]

home field [import]

Track Listings

1. Innocent

2. Criminal Mind- Solo Live

3. Pigeon

4. Wind Summer Night

5. Lost Brotherhood- Solo Live

6. I'll Be There In A Minute

7. Soul's Road

8. Good Catches Up

9. Laura- Solo Live

10. Moonlight Desires

11. Your Stone Walls

12. Guns And God

13. You'll Be With Me- Solo Live

14. Make It Alone

15. Healing Waters

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Prior to his tenure as vocalist with US stadium giants Styx, Lawrence Gowan had an enviable reputation as a solo artist in his adopted homeland of Canada. This release collates some of the finest moments from his eight platinum albums and adds a few extras along the way. Majestic Rock. 2004.

Home Field,Gowan,Majestic Rock,Rock,Rock/Pop

Home Field [Import]

Prison Songs (Historical Recordings From Parchman Farm 1947-48), Vol. 1: Murderous Home

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Real Gangstas, Role Models, and Elvis Presley
DEEP
Incredibly powerful music
One of the great documents of American music.

Prison Songs (Historical Recordings From Parchman Farm 1947-48), Vol. 1: Murderous Home
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Rounder Select
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Prison Songs (Historical Recordings From Parchman Farm 1947-48), Vol. 2: Don'tcha Hear Poor Mother Calling?
Treasury of Library of Congress Field Recordings
Negro Work Songs & Calls
Land Where the Blues Began
Afro-American Spirituals, Work Songs, And Ballads

ASIN: B0000002UV
Release Date: 1997-09-28

Tracks:

The Murderer's Home - Jimpson & group
No More, My Lord - Jimpson & axe gang
Old Alabama - B.B. & group
Black Woman - B.B. & group
Jumpin' Judy - Tangle Eye, Fuzzy Red, Hard Hair, & group
Whoa Buck - C.B.
Prettiest Train - '22'
Old Dollar Mamie - '22' & group
It Makes A Long Time Man Feel Bad - '22' & group
Rosie - C.B. & axe gang
Levee Camp Holler - Bama
What Makes A Work Song Leader? - Interview with Bama
Early In The Mornin' - '22' with Little Red, Tangle Eye, & Hard Hair
How I Got In The Penitentiary - Interview with Bama
Tangle Eye Blues - Tangle Eye
Stackerlee - Bama
Prison Blues - Alex

Album Description

"These songs belong to the musical tradition which Africans brought to the New World, but they are also as American as the Mississippi River. They were born out of the very rock and earth of this country, as black hands broke the soil, moved, reformed it, and rivers of stinging sweat poured upon the land under the blazing heat of Southern skies, and are mounted upon the passion that this struggle with nature brought forth. They tell us the story of the slave gang, the sharecropper system, the lawless work camp, the chain gang, the pen." --Alan Lomax

This is a reissue of Alan Lomax's legendary album Negro Prison Songs in its entirety. A complete CD of previously unissued material from the same field recordings is also available: Prison Songs Vol. 2: Don'tcha Hear Poor Mother Calling?

Customer Reviews:

Real Gangstas, Role Models, and Elvis Presley.......2004-06-10

This disc (as well as its companion, "Vol. 2: Dont'cha Hear Poor Mother Calling?") is perhaps some of the most beautiful and honest recordings of human expression you'll ever hear. Modern music has nothing on this stuff; it's the real deal. This is music that was created to get you through the day; not to sell records or to score chicks. This is as anti-commercial, and therefore, as antiestablishment as you can get. Truly alternative. And it is, in a word, spellbinding.
The greatest beauty of, not only the songs, but culture that spawned them and the men who sang them as well, is the burning human spirit that inhabits each and every track on this record. Nowhere is there a mention of giving up or losing hope. These songs are optimistic in the the purest sense and prideful in the best way. One can't help but wonder how - in a place where you could get six months on the chain gang for standing on a street corner, or five years for stealing a loaf of bread - these men managed to remain so hopeful? How could they stay so proud and sing so true, with so much life, while they were being worked to death every day, from dawn until dusk, under the blazing, hot sun with nothing but a little bread and water to keep them going? These men must have had an amazing inner strength and a strong system of values to get through it. Or, if not that, at they very least, they had to have possessed an unimaginable amount of pride and dignity in themselves to not to be broken down by their captors and the brutal Jim Crow penal system under which they were railroaded.
Thinking of that and listening to this disc, I was reminded of something I heard Wynton Marsalis say in an interview with David Frost. When asked what he thought of Rap music, Wynton said that, "Rap, because of it's sense of nihilism, represents the ultimate triumph of the white man over the black man..." Nowhere, he claimed, in the history of African-American creative expression do you find that sense of nihilism that you do in Rock & Roll. That was something that found its way into black culture after Elvis took off. So if Rock music was, and still is, a white manifestation of the Blues and R&B with a Dionysian sense of self-destruction, then the rebellious posturing and devil-may-care swagger of today's gun-toting "Gangsta" archetype is something that was adopted from white culture. Does this sound far fetched? Not if one looks at white popular culture from the fifties. Take, for example, "Rebel Without a Cause" or "The Wild One" where disenfranchised white kids, juiced up on hormones, drag race down the road, not at all concerned that somebody might crash or fly off a cliff. Where do these ideas play out in pre-fifties African-American culture? They don't. Because they don't exist. Could you ever imagine Duke Ellington, in his top hat and tails, kicking over his piano bench the way Jerry Lee Lewis did on the Steve Allen Show? Never in a million years. This sense of nihilism was introduced into the mix by white guys like James Dean, Marlon Brando, Gene Vincent, and Eddie Cochran; it was later elevated to a fine art by the likes of Keith Richards, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison before it was co-opted by latter day Rap performers.
To be sure, there is no sense of nihilism on this disc. And for that reason, the singers on "Murderous Home" (and "Dont'cha Hear Poor Mother Calling?") should be held up as role models to countless disenfranchised young people out there who have no faith in the system. The men here didn't let the system get the better of them; they didn't let the institution turn them sour; they didn't let the institution turn them on themselves. The guys on this disc are the original "Gangstas." True rebels, defiant in a time long before being an outsider was bottled up, made cool, and sold to us in the form of Rock & Roll...long before the advertisers taught us how to be self-destructive...and long before rap videos made that sense of self-destruction sexy to suburban kids.
It's interesting to note that in spite of all the positive spirit in these songs, when Alan Lomax returned to Parchman just a few years later, the younger convicts refused to sing them. They saw the songs as old-fashioned and thought singing them would be "Uncle Tomming." Ironically, of course, this was in the fifties...after Rock & Roll.
How sad then, that these songs were forgotten by African-Americans. Because what got left behind was a guiding voice. A voice that was so poetic, beautiful and honest in its heroic strength and language and so steadfast in its conviction and principle and so completely true to itself that no rapper out there today comes anywhere close to equaling its defiance. But, perhaps the worst thing of all...the saddest of thing all...is that a genuine dignity was lost. A dignity that could have been a navigational beacon...a roadmap to the high road...forsaken and cast aside...and, ultimately, all because a good-looking white boy from Memphis shook his hips on a thing called television.

DEEP.......2001-11-05

I really had no idea what i was in store for. But for those who love black, southern and prison history, spirituals, and are thirsting for music in its purest form, buy this CD!!! It has wonderful chants, commentary from Lomax, narrative from the inmatesand even clanking from the axes. You can hear the suffering and longing in their voices. You can hear the humor in may of the lyrics. Be sure to read the booklet so that you can get a clearer understanding of it all. It is a wonderful piece of recorded history. you may also want to buy the book Worse than Slavery, by Oshinsky so that you can get greater sense of exactly waht they are thinking about. One more thing..You will totally feel the energy of 22.

Incredibly powerful music.......2001-10-26

I was blown away when I listened to this CD for the first time. The recording is great. I didn't expect too much due to the time frame of the recording, but the quality is impressive. I bought this hoping to find more tracks like "Po' Lazarus" from the "O' Brother Where Art Thou" Soundtrack. What I got was much more.

One of the great documents of American music........2000-06-27

Words fail to describe this incredibly powerful album. I've had a copy since the 60's, and still have an unopened LP copy in my "vault" (along with the first Roberty Johnson LP). Luckily, I don't have to describe the power of the music - you can click on the samples, and hear for yourself.

Reams of praise have been heaped on this album, and every word has been an understatement.

If you have any interest whatever in American folk music or in blues or jazz, you either have a copy of this or should get one. This is the absolute peak of Lomax's years of collecting.

Incredibly clean sound for the 40's, all well recorded, musically superb pieces, each a perfect gem of its kind, preserving some of the oldest and best of American music, done by some of the finest singers you've never heard of.

Tracks:

America the Beautiful
All Quiet on the Potomac Tonight
Ballad of the Green Berets
On Top of Old Smokey
Coyote Warrior
Semper Fidelis
Breeze from Alabama
Onward Christian Soldiers
Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming
Patriot
Sweet Betsy from Pike
Marines' Hymn
America Is
When Johnny Comes Marchin' Home
Happy the Soldier
American Trilogy
Home Sweet Home
Washington Post March
Enraptured I Gaze
Jeannie With the Light Brown Hair
Yellow Rose of Texas
Over There
Simple Gifts
Liberty Bell
Star Spangled Banner

Tracks:

God Bless the USA
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Katy Cruel
I Vow to Thee My Country
King Cotton
Beautiful Dreamer
America
American Patrol
Mine Eyes Have Seen the Beauty
Mohican Dream
Red, White and Blue
Some Folks
Liberty Song
Pomp and Circumstance
Hail to the Chief
Bennington Rifles
Peace on the Battlefield
I've Been Working on the Railroad
Under the Double Eagle
Red River Valley
My Country 'Tis of Thee
Camptown Races
Wild Blue Yonder
Hands Across the Sea
Fanfare for the Common Man

Tracks:

Stars and Stripes Forever
Living in America
Home on the Range
Old Colony Times
Clementine
Invincible Eagle
Ring Ring de Banjo
Yankee Doodle
Largo from "The New World"
To a Wild Rose
Hail Columbia
Alexander's Ragtime Band
Gettysburg
Carry Me Back to Old Virginny
Capitan
Prairie Daughter
Little Brown Jug
Marching Through Georgia
Entertainer
Steamboat Around the Bend
Revolutionary Tea
Cassions Keep Rollin' Along
Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier
Amazing Grace
Grand Old Flag

Tracks:

God Bless America
National Emblem
Soldier, Soldier Won't You Marry Me
Anchors Away
Oh, Susannah
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
Toast
Dixie
St. Louis Blues
Appalachian Spring
Bonnie Blue Flag
Old Hundreth
Swanee River
Battle Cry of Freedom
U. S Field Artillery
Sidewalks of New York
Chester
Auld Lang Syne
Kingdom Come
My Old Kentucky Home
Hail to the Spirit of Liberty
Battle Hymn of the Republic
Shenandoah
Abraham's Daughter
This Land Is Your Land

Customer Reviews:

not to great.......2007-04-04

We were disappointed with this CD, but for the price I guess we can't expect much. I didn't care for the new style presentation of the songs. I like a more traditional rendering.

Not so bad, 100 tunes for 4$.......2005-06-22

I red the comments of two other people who have bought this 4 CD BOX SET and it is not really so bad. I will even add that there are some excellent tunes. However, I must agree with the fact that few tunes seem to have been recorded 40 or 50 years ago, mainly when you hear the scratches of an old turntable but it is just 2 or 3 tunes. Furthermore, if you do not know American music, it is a good BOX SET to buy if you consider that you received 4 CD for 4$ including 100 tunes. On these 4 CD, I have heard some orchestration that I have never heard before and I consider that they are different but interesting. Any way, after hearing these 100 tunes, you will say to yourself that you like this tune, this other tune, this other tune and so on and you will be able to buy a more expensive CD with the tunes that you like. However, I have bought many CDs in the last few weeks and as you know, there are always some tunes that you like and some tunes that you do not like on every CD that you will buy. So, don't buy it at 25$ but at 4 or 5$ dollars, it is a very good choice for 100 tunes.

You get what you pay for........2004-07-04

You get what you pay for. The singers put their own spin on the singing of each song. If you didn't hear the words you would not recognize some of them. Even some of the music sounds like a bad recording of music played on a turntable. Definitely not worth the price.

Now I know why there were no song samples to listen to ..........2004-07-04

I wish this review had been here when I was thinking of purchasing it. I guess you get what you pay for. If you are thinking of buying this, you are better off recording your own CDs (or at least buying one that you can listen to a sampling of the songs). This album includes songs that were mere recordings of the songs playing on an old record player. It's almost so unbelievable that it is funny.

Close To Home: Old Time Music From Mike Seeger's Collection 1952-1967

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CD Close To Home: Old Time Music Mike Seeger 1952-1967
A great guide to old time

Close To Home: Old Time Music From Mike Seeger's Collection 1952-1967
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Smithsonian Folkways
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000001DJW
Release Date: 1997-06-17

Tracks:

In The Sweet Bye And Bye - Elizabeth Cotten
Tie Your Dog, Sally Gal - Will Adam
Banjo Instrumental - J.C. 'Cleve' Sutphin
Lost Train Blues - V.L. Sutphin
Shortening Bread - Vernon & Cleve Sutphin
The Train That Carried My Girl From Town - Vernon & Cleve Sutphin
Old Gambling Man - J.J. Neece
John Henry - J.J. Neece
Shout, Little Lulu - Louise Foreacre
He Will Set Your Fields On Fire - Kilby Snow
Gather In The Golden Grain - Ernest & Hattie Stoneman
Going To Lay Down My Burdens - Elizabeth Whit
John Henry - Lesley Riddle
Pretty Fair Damsel - Tom Ashley
It's These Hard Times - Pearly 'Grandma' Davis
Old-Time Reel - Pearly 'Grandma' Davis
Jackson Schottische - A. L. Hall & Group
Lone Prairie - Wade Ward
Molly, Put The Kettle On - Wade Ward
Last Gold Dollar - Edsel Martin & Bill McElreath
John Henry - Bill & Jean Davis
Three Nights Drunk - Blue Ridge Buddies
Jimmie Sutton - Blue Ridge Buddies
Going To Lay Down My Old Guitar - Snuffy Jenkins & Ira Dimmery
Black Mountain Rag - Arthur Smith, Sam McGee, Kirk McGee
A Talk On The World - Clyde Lewis
Red Wing - 'Lost John' Ray, Walt Koken
Leather Breeches - Eck Robertson, New Lost City Ramblers
Blackberry Blossom - Sherman Lawson
Alabama Gals - Emmett Cole
Old Joe Clark - George Landers
Sugar Baby - Dock Boggs
Queen Sally - Archie Sturgill
Poor Orphan Child - Kate Peters Sturgill
My Virginia Rose - Scott Boatright
I'm Leaving You - Sara Carter Bayes & Maybelle Carter
He Said If You Love Me, Feed My Sheep - Stancer Quartet
I Would Not Live Always - Clarence Ferrill

Amazon.com

Mike Seeger's fame is often overshadowed by his older half-brother Pete Seeger's notoriety, but his contributions to the American folk canon--both as a member of the New Lost City Ramblers and as a song collector--are pretty impressive in their own right. Close to Home is Seeger's hand-picked selection of recordings he made on visits to the south in the 1950's and 60's. It's a refreshing, very well annotated sampler, chock full of previously unreleased old-timey tracks by important artists like Sara & Maybelle Carter, Elizabeth Cotten, Dock Boggs, Wade Ward and Texas fiddler Eck Robertson. Some of the lesser known musicians, though, steal the show--just check out Kilby Snow's stunning autoharp solo, "He Will Set Your Fields on Fire." --Michael Ruby

Album Description

In the 1950's and sixties musician-collector Mike Seeger, inspired by the great folksong collectors of the 1930's, visited traditional musicians of the rural South. This is his handpicked selection of the recordings made during those visits. Included in the 38 selections are previously unreleased recordings by the well-known Sara & Maybelle Carter, Arthur Smith, Elizabeth Cotten, and Dock Boggs, as well as treasures by lesser-known artists. The enclosed booklet contains photographs and notes on the performance, which include virtuoso fiddle, banjo, and guitar music, unaccompanied ballad singing, and a story-teller entertaining his buddies in a fiddler's convention parking lot.

Customer Reviews:

CD Close To Home: Old Time Music Mike Seeger 1952-1967.......2006-08-10

Arrived quickly and in excellent shape.

A great guide to old time.......1998-06-12

I am fairly new to Old Time music, but I found this album a great resource/roadmap for finding out more about this style & the people who play(ed) it. Many of the artists on the disc are not as obscure & forgotten as I first thought. The fact that the music is recorded live makes it easier to listen to than reissue compilations from poorly remastered 78s and there are some great songs. The liner notes are informative & interesting. I highly recommend this CD.

Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: Feel Like Going Home

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Good, except for the African Recordings
First in Scorcese series is off to a good start

Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: Feel Like Going Home
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Sony
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000A0AZ9
Release Date: 2003-09-09

Tracks:

Traveling Riverside Blues - Robert Johnson
Dynaflow Blues - Johnny Shines
Hellhound On My Trail - Robert Johnson
Country Blues - Muddy Waters
Celebrated Walkin' Blues - Taj Mahal
Rosalie - Muddy Waters With The Son Simms Four
My Black Mama Pt. II - Son House
Government Fleet Blues - Son House
Gypsy Woman - Muddy Waters
High Water Everywhere Pt. 1 - Charley Patton
C.C. Rider - Lead Belly
Terrorized - Willie King & The Liberators
Oh Baby - Napolean Strickland & The Como Drum Band
Lay My Burden Down - Otha Turner & Corey Harris
Mali Dje - Ali Farka Toure
Tupelo Blues - John Lee Hooker
Amandrai - Ali Farka Toure
Down Child - John Lee Hooker
Ananamin (It's Been So Long) - Salif Keita
My Babe - Otha Turner & The Rising Star Fife & Drum Band

Album Description

This soundtrack is one in a series (Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues) featuring original recordings and blues classics hand picked by the director Martin Scorsese. 20 tracks from the likes of Robert Johnson, Charley Patton, Ali Farka Toure & Lead Belly. Sony. 2003.

Customer Reviews:

Good, except for the African Recordings.......2004-09-07

Every song on this compilation is awesome except for the recordings because ITS NOT BLUES! The best songs on this cd would have to be John Lee Hooker ones, or maybe the Charley Patton song.

First in Scorcese series is off to a good start.......2004-02-22

For the first soundtrack in Martin Scorcese's blues series, he selected a majority of classic country blues

Robert Johnson is featured twice here, in "Hellhound On My Trail," which makes one wonder just what demons he was fleeing from, and "Traveling Riverside Blues," which is where Led Zeppelin, (borrowed is a very nice word for what they did) the phrase "the way you squeeze my lemon..." in "Lemon Song"

His traveling partner Johnny Shines is represented on "Dynaflow Blues," which is not only an example of an amplified electric blues but updates Johnson's "Terrapin Blues."

Alan Lomax's discovery and interviews of Muddy Waters led to his producing "Country Blues" on the search for his woman at any cost, and "Rosalie" which is backed by the violin and mandolin of the Son Simms Four combo.

The slow epic "Celebrated Walkin' Blues" by Taj Mahal has a amplified droning harmonica and slide guitar. And that's Ry Cooder on another guitar and mandolin. This is a tribute to the lives of the road-bound musicians in the Delta region.

The 1927 Flood of Mississippi is covered by three artists. Son House's protagonist tells it from the POV of a enchained levee worker in "Government Fleet Blues." Charley Patton's "High Water Everywhere" was done two years after the event, and his rougher vocals and hand thumping the guitar is quite a contrast to Johnson's smoother higher-pitched vocals. But the most poignant is John Lee Hooker speaking softly of the tragedy in the acoustic guitar of "Tupelo Blues," and the wishes for deliverance among the poor people trapped by the raging waters.

Son House's "My Black Mama Pt. 2" is the original of "Death Letter Blues," which can also be found on Warming By The Devil's Fire. Also on that same album is "C.C. Rider," done there by Ma Rainey, but here by Lead Belly.

Of the new tracks, Willie King & The Liberators' "Terrorized" tell a sobering compact history of the African-American experience from being kidnapped from Africa for slavery, being strung from the nearest tree, and being persecuted overall. The idea is that yes, "we talk about terrorism" q.v. 11 Sept., but that's nothing compared to the terrorism African-Americans underwent for centuries.

As in the film, the ties between the blues and African music are linked by three artists. In Senatobia, MS, Otha Turner and his cane flute, which sounds a lot like a fife, plays "Oh Baby" with Napoleon Strickland and the Como Drum Band, in which this form of African drumming is proof that here is one thing that makes all blacks Africans. He and Corey Harris, Scorcese's talented blues guitarist play on the gospel-themed "Lay My Burden Down," on the last thing to happen to any weary soul. And "My Babe," performed with his daughter, is presumably his last live performance before his death.

On the Malian side, the acoustic blues of Ali Farka Toure, whose melodies for "Mali Dje" and "Amandrai" and albino artist Salif Keita's "Ananamin" prove that the blacks in America and Africa may be separated by differing languages, but they can communicate their feelings of suffering through music, and that a black American should not be a foreigner in Africa, because he's actually going home to his roots.

Tracks:

Do-Re-Mi - Woody Guthrie
Where The Old Red River Flows - Whitstein Brothers
Church Street Blues - Norman Blake
Worried Blues - Mississippi John Hurt
Joliet Bound - Rory Block
J'Etais Au Bal - LeJeune, Menard, Smith
Annie Is My Darling Medley/The Red Shoes - Joseph Cormier
Sly Old Crow/Old Blair Store - John McCutcheon
Midnight On The Stormy Deep - Tony Rice Unit
Corazon Viajero - Tish Hinojosa
Come All You Fair And Tender Maidens - David Bromberg
Sweet Lucy - Michael Hurley & The Holy Modal Rounders
One Dime Blues - Etta Baker
Talk About Sufferin' - Ricky Scaggs
Troubles, Trials, Tribulations - E.C. & Orna Ball
Silver Bell - Country Cooking
The Memory Of Your Smile - Mike Seeger
Never Give Up - Alison Krauss & The Cox Family
Reels: The Pure Drop/The Flax In Bloom - Pierre Bensusan
Night Herding Song - Skip Gorman

Tracks:

John Hardy - Lead Belly
Duncan & Brady - Johnson Mountain Boys
Old Country Stomp - Jody Stecher, Kate Brislin
College Hornpipe - Mark O'Connor
Looking For Money - Chicken Chokers
Going Back To Old Virginia - Crowe & McLaughlin
Hills Of Home - Hazel Dickens
I'm Out On The Ocean A-Sailing - Leslie Riddle
She Did You A Favor - Roy Book Binder
My Babe - Mississippi Fred McDowell, Johnny Woods
Racetrack Blues - Nashville Jug Band
Aloha Means I Love You - Tau Moe Family
Bill Cheatham - Bela Fleck, Bill Keith, Tony Trischka
High On A Mountain - Ola Belle Reed
I Caught A Keeper - Barry & Holly Tashian
I Ride An Old Paint - Riders In The Sky
Baby Please Don't Go - Bill Morrissey, Greg Brown
Killing The Blues - Woodstock Mountain Revue
I'll Never Go Back - Louvin Brothers
Who Will Watch The Home Place - Laurie Lewis

Amazon.com

Released in 1995 to commemorate Rounder Records' 25 years in business, Hills of Home is a terrific investment for anyone interested in exploring the label's myriad folk offerings. (Blues fans would be well-advised to check out Deep Blue, Hills's silver-anniversary blues twin.) Bargain-priced and boasting a wide range, this two-disc overview is elevated over standard label anthologies by superior sequencing and worthwhile liner notes. The Massachusetts-based imprint has been a stronghold for developing troubadours and stalwart mountain musicians as well as an outlet for classic reissue material. Indeed, everyone from instrumental hotshot Mark O'Connor to Woody Guthrie to acid folkies the Holy Modal Rounders to hill harmonizers the Louvin Brothers are represented here. --Steven Stolder

Customer Reviews:

a fine compilation.......2005-11-27

The best general compilation of American folk music I've heard.
The 40 tracks on two discs include such artists as Woody Guthrie, Mississippi John Hurt, Etta Baker, Leadbelly, Ricky Skaggs, the Nashville Jug Band, Alison Krauss. Every track is strong - no filler.
In addition to their other compilation "Deep Blue" (called "Deep Blues: Rounder 25th Anniversary" on Amazon), also look for their other 25th Anniversary albums "Hand-Picked" and "Louisiana Spice".

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Home Field Advantage
The High & Mighty
Manufacturer: Priority Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000JWG3
Release Date: 1999-08-24

Tracks:

Tip Off Time
Dirty Decibels
Top Prospects
Dick Starbuck 'Porno Detective'
B-Boy Document '99
The Last Hit
Ay Yo (Skit)
Hot Spittable
The Meaning
In-Outs
Papers Please (Skit)
Shaquan & Eon
The Half
Hands On Experience Pt. II
Weed
Newman (Skit)
Open Mic Night Remix
Mind, Soul, And Body
Friendly Game Of Football

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Not just another classical recording

Sarah Stanton: A Glimpse of Heaven

Manufacturer: MSR Classics
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0006B431A
Release Date: 2004-10-26

Tracks:

Largo
Terri's Song
Unity
Jubilant Dance
Field of Melodies
Harmony of Peace
Intrigue
Such Is Life
A Child's Heart
Composition Ten
August Song
Modus Vivendi
Coming Home
My Delight
A Glimpse of Heaven

Album Description

Composer Sarah Stanton has imbued this music with her very heart and soul, and her deep connection with God. The harmony falls through the ear, stripping away the toughest layers. As it reaches towards the innermost part of the soul, it wraps itself around the heart like a shield of acceptance and peace. Ever beckoning and full of nostalgia, the music soothes as long-awaited rest is found. Therefore, come and listen…the music bids you peace.

Customer Reviews:

Not just another classical recording.......2004-11-10

This is an excellent recording of a talented string quartet performing Sarah Stanton's original compositions. Although these tunes are classical in nature, they do not follow typical classical chord progressions. Just when you think you know where the arrangement is going, the music flows in a different direction. Very interesting works and well worth the price.

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A great introduction to a great pioneer

Mountain Hearth & Home
Jean Ritchie
Manufacturer: Rhino Handmade
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0002LQUO2
Release Date: 2004-09-07

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Customer Reviews:

A great introduction to a great pioneer.......2004-09-30

Jean Ritchie's story has an almost mythic quality about it.
Raised in Appalachian Kentucky, she got her college degree and
moved to New York to help in the inner-city. There folks discovered her knowledge of the folk songs and mountain dulcimer music with which she was raised. She's often been credited with being the person who brought the mountain dulcimer to the attention of the broader public.

This collection of songs chooses a broad selection, commencing from her very first album to her later work. The songs here emphasize vocals, not dulcimer, so that is not a "Hendrix of the dulcimer" approach to this music. The spare, two and four track productions have an enchanting "live" quality, and Ms. Ritchie's voice has an appealing sincerity.

This CD is a very worthwhile introduction to her work. I highly recommend.

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Their only good album
Mighty High Advantage
they truly are high and mighty
(2-1/2 stars) A bumpy ride
True Hip hop...

Home Field Advantage
The High & Mighty
Manufacturer: Priority Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000JWG1
Release Date: 1999-08-24

Tracks:

Tip Off Time
Dirty Decibels
Top Prospects
Dick Starbuck
B-Boy Document '99
The Last Hit
Ay Yo (Skit)
Hot Spittable
The Meaning
In-Outs
Papers Please (Skit)
Shaquan & Eon
The Half
Hands On Experience Pt.II
Weed
Newman (Skit)
Open Mic Night Remix
Mind, Soul And Body
Friendly Game Of Football

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Their only good album.......2005-07-20

This was the first album I owned by them and I'm glad it was because I've been disappointed by the rest of their efforts. Maybe this was just a magical time for the 3 and there just wasn't enough left for the rest of their cd's.
Hands on Experience with Kool Keith and the Female MC is my fav, but the rest of this album is great. This is definitely a must have CD. The rest of their albums you can skip.
I'd put this CD in my top 30 cd's collection.

Mighty High Advantage.......2005-03-15

Now a days, rappers and producers have their own independent label to get a name for themselves. Hence, Mr. Eon and DJ Mighty Mi formed the label for bringing hip-hop back, named Rawkus. Production was handled by half team member, DJ Mighty Mi, with a little help from Reef and the Alchemist. They have sparked careers for Mos Def and labelmate Pharoahe Monch which Home Field Advantage features them both. There are other underground names on here you may recognize, but the real push comes from the effort put forth by Mr. Eon to keep hip-hop in its essence form. Just check him on a solo creep on "Hot Spittable" which would get an A+ for a class of music that is slowly dying. Only hip-hop heads would appreciate this.

they truly are high and mighty.......2002-11-23

I came across this CD by accident and it made me glad that accidents happen from time to time. If you buy this CD and like you should then go out and buy Smutpeddlers' (same group just a different name) Porn Again. If you are fan of Kool Keith(Dr. Doom, Dr. Octagon, or whatever you know him by) then I definitely recommend this album because it has one of Kool Keith's greatest songs Hand's On Experience, which is a hilarious song about spanking the monkey. If you are a fan of Eminem then get this record because it has a song from him before he went pop. This CD has numerous songs that will satisfy anybody no matter what their taste in hip hop is. Open Mic Night Remix is not the best song on the record but it is a suprise for anyone who watched Lyricist Lounge on MTV. Open Mic features Wordsmith from Lyricist Lounge and if you watched it you will be suprised by the skills he has(because he sure as h#ll didn't show them on The Lyricist Lounge). This is an album that anyone can love and will be a favorite for anyone that listens to it.

(2-1/2 stars) A bumpy ride.......2002-08-25

Hip-hop heads were beginning to hail Rawkus as the dopest underground label there is thanks to Soundbombing 1 and 2 (don't bother with 3, though). So naturally whenever a new album from a Rawkus artist came out, people ran to the nearest corner music store to pick it up, or at least listen to it. And anyone who says albums like this are inaccessible supposedly "just don't get it." Well, I'm very familiar with Rawkus and other underground acts, but even I don't get this.

The main problem with this album is that Mr. Eon sounds completely different on every track. When you hear "Dirty Decibels", the album's first real track, you'll assume that's his voice, but on the next track it almost sounds like the guest rapper from the previous track is rapping instead of Eon (in this case, Pharoahe Monch).

Another problem is that Eon doesn't seem to be able to hold his own on his own album. He's not the greatest MC in the world, thus the guest stars do a pretty good job of outshining him. Eminem and Pharoahe Monch rip it as usual on "The Last Hit" and "Dirty Decibels", respectively, while Wordsworth steals the show on "Open Mic Night" with verses like: "At open mics I'm tellin' y'all one last time/Stop askin' for a capellas and then kickin' those wack rhymes." And "B-Boy Document `99" features Mos Def AND Mad Skillz? Just consider yourself benched when that happens. By the time you hear Eon alone on a track, you'll think he's a guest star. "Hot Spittable" comes off all right, but "Weed", which breaks down the actual definition of weed, is hard for me to get into. Maybe that's because I don't smoke.

You can't front on Mighty Mi's production...most of the time. The best production is found in "Top Prospects", which would make Mobb Deep proud. But by the end of the album, the production gets lazy. The music in "The Half" is annoying, and in the masturbation anthem "Hands On Experience", the production AND rhyming is terrible. The latter features Kool Keith, What What and Bobbito Garcia, and unsurprisingly, Eon shows up for a small verse at the end. It's too bad, because he could have saved verses like when Bobbito said anything, especially: "Get up/Close my door/So my roommate won't bust me/Like my mom did/And my dad did/And my college roommate did."

It's hard to tell exactly what Mi and Eon were trying to accomplish with this album, because rather than showcase themselves, it seems like they're showcasing everyone else with special guest: themselves. If you like albums that feel like compilations, then pick it up; otherwise, I wouldn't recommend it.

True Hip hop..........2002-03-15

This album is pure hip hop the way its supposed to be. Hip hop is about the flows and the ablility to spit them, and I think they bust flows tight....the guest appearance make this CD an 11. I can listen to this CD from start to finish. If you are a true hip hop head and not a sell out, you will love this CD. I usally burn all my CDs, but this one is so tight, I'm throwing down bills to get it. Peace...

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