So I started this blog in part kind of intending it to be an off shoot of a project on Folk music I have been working on for my honors thesis. Semantics and discourse aside, I have been listening to a lot of different types of music native to this here great land and would like to share with you a sweet playlist that I think is representative of the general quality and diversity of music connected to (and some part of) that old American sound that to many sounds just archaic and weird. Those people are clearly wrong. Well, not really, but I do feel that considering the deep impact a lot of those recordings (like the Anthology of American Folk Music) have had on the modern musical landscape, that point is a little moot or so they say. Plus I think it is time to fully admit, these days a lot of new music is just sounds tired to me, too many synthesizers and too impersonal. Like, I get it, your in a band, am I supposed be impressed or something or just accept you playing your instrument like a cold fish? JK JK... As per-usual this playlist is a little of the familiar and a little of the unfamiliar, anyway I hope you enjoy it.
Beams of Heaven 2:43 Rosetta Tharpe
Come Back to Us Barbara Lewis Hare Krishna Beauregard John Prine Prime Prine
The Fugitive 2:58 Merle Haggard The Definitive Collection
this land is your land 4:31 Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings Naturally
Cold Rain & Snow 6:44 Grateful Dead Dick's Picks Volume 5 (Disc 1)
Lonesome and a Long Way From Home 3:56 Delaney & Bonnie & Friends Motel Shot
Sugar Man 3:48 Sixto Rodriguez Cold Fact
You Ain't Goin' Nowhere 2:43 Bob Dylan The Basement Tapes (CD 2) 1
Spike Driver Blues 3:17 Mississippi John Hurt Anthology Of American Folk Music, Vol. 3B:
When You Got A Good Friend 2:40 Robert Johnson King of the Delta Blues Singers Blues
Little Martha 2:07 The Allman Brothers Band Eat A Peach
Drifting Too Far From The Shore 4:54 Jerry Garcia, David Grisman & Tony Rice The Pizza Tapes
The Unwelcome Guest 5:06 Billy Bragg & Wilco Mermaid Avenue
House of the rising sun 5:45 Dave Van Ronk Just Dave Van Ronk
It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry 4:09 Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited
Is This Enough 4:48 Roadbirds Live in the Wilde
Georgia Stomp 2:48 Andrew & Jim Baxter Anthology Of American Folk Music, Vol. 2A:
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