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NEW RELEASES - AUGUST 2007
A selection of new CD, DVD and book releases from the folk, roots and acoustic music scene.
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MIKE SEEGER: EARLY SOUTHERN GUITAR SOUNDS
Smithsonian Folkways SFWCD40157 | Artist website
Seeger's fascinating study of guitar styles played in pre-1930s US rural south. 28 tracks and booklet with insightful commentary on the songs and styles plus history and photos of instruments used.
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VARIOUS: TOP CAT, WHITE TIE & TAILS (Songs & Poems of Les Barker) |
OSMO CD 041 | Artist website
Volume 3 of Barker's 'Guide Cats For The Blind' series in which celebs perform his work for charity. Roger Lloyd-Pack, Joss Ackland, Jenny Agutter et al in 27 tracks of delicious surreality!
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THE COUNTRY GENTLEMEN: GOING BACK TO THE BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS
Smithsonian Folkways SFWCD40175 | Artist website
Reissue of a 1960's live gig from the fathers of modern bluegrass - jokes, intros, mandolin pickin' heaven, and everyone having a whale of a time.
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DAVE PEGG: A BOX OF PEGG'S
Matty Grooves MG4CD046 | Artist website
There are some real gems in this entertainingly eclectic, cribbage-themed 4-CD retrospective of the folk-rock bass legend's multifarious output with Fairport and Tull, McTell and Thompson, various '60s bands and many more.
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RENEGADE (SHARON SHANNON BAND): RENEGADE
Daisy DLCD023 | Artist website
Core band of Shannon, McGoldrick, Dezi Donnelly & Jim Murray aided by a diversity of pals. A loping, virtuoso mix of Irish trad with diverse influences and great McGoldrick & Murray vocal debuts.
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FAIRPORT CONVENTION: LIEGE & LIEF DELUXE EDITION
Universal 5301111 | Artist website
Arguably the best folk/rock album ever, digitally remastered, plus bonus CD of studio out-takes and 1969 John Peel sessions including Lady Is A Tramp and Fly Me To The Moon!
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MICHAEL BLACK: MICHAEL BLACK
Compass 7 4462 2 | Artist website
Charming debut solo album from a scion of the famous Irish family. Songs from shanties to singalongs with class aid from siblings and other luminaries including producer John Doyle.
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RALPH McTELL: 8 FRAMES A SECOND Expanded Edition
Transatlantic TRRCD400 | Artist website
The 1968 debut album with early classic songs, rags and blues and a couple of interesting publisher-imposed novelty covers. Previously-unreleased bonus tracks include Cohen's Suzanne and a great live jugband stomp.
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RALPH McTELL: SPIRAL STAIRCASE Expanded Edition
Transatlantic TRRCD401 | Artist website
The Streets album (late 1968) in which a more assured McTell consolidates his reputation as a major singer, songwriter and guitarist. Bonus tracks are four songs restated for the 1970 American compilation Revisited.
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RALPH McTELL: MY SIDE OF YOUR WINDOW Expanded Edition |
Transatlantic TRRCD402 | Artist website
1970: reflecting the changing times with a darker, edgier album - no rags or covers but 11 perceptive tales in more musically ambitious settings. Bonus tracks include a single B-side and more Revisited tracks.
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DÀIMH: CROSSING POINT
Greentrax CDTRAX316 | Artist website
Ace combo from the Scottish West Highlands, Cape Breton, Ireland and America with velvety Gaelic vocals and driving/emotional tunesets featuring bagpipes, fiddle, banjo, guitar, bodhran and mandola.
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THE CAST: greengold
Greentrax CDTRAX319 | Artist website
Mairi Campbell and Dave Francis add strong original material to their usual Burns and trad Scottish repertoire. Haunting voice, sparse guitar and fiddle: a gentle poignancy pervades.
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KATE RUSBY: AWKWARD ANNIE
Pure Records PRCD23 | Artist website
Catchy Rusby originals, gorgeous ballads, lush strings and brass, jaunty banjo. Chris Thile, Kris Drever, John Doyle and more add new sounds to Kate's regular A-class gang.
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RICHARD AND LINDA THOMPSON: IN CONCERT NOVEMBER 1975
Island/Universal | Artist website
One of Britain's great folk-rock partnerships on their Pour Down Like Silver tour: songs old and new, a morris medley, and Pegg, Mattacks & Kirkpatrick as the band - magic.
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VARIOUS ARTISTS: COOL AS FOLK
Gott GOTTCD070
36 tracks of spine-tingling and grin-inducing live music from the last 8 Cambridge Folk Festivals. Excellent compilation with unique collaborations and emotional moments.
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ALISTAIR RUSSELL: CELTIC SESSION GUITAR ACCOMPANIMENT (DVD)
Mrs Casey Music MCRDVD7002 | Artist website
Excellent instruction for the novice, covering jigs and reels plus chat on session music, equipment and more. Friendly, clear style from the ex-Battlefield Band singer/guitarist aided by melodeon maestro Chris Parkinson.
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CHRIS STOUT QUINTET: DEVIL'S ADVOCATE
Greentrax CDTRAX305 | Artist website
Fiddle, sax, piano, double bass and guitar deliver some soul-stirring moments in this classical- and jazz-inflected powerhouse of original compositions and traditional tunes.
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THE OUTSIDE TRACK: THE OUTSIDE TRACK
BOING0701 | Artist website
5-piece from Canada, Scotland, Ireland and England out of the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance with a lively and assured modern Celtic vocal/instrumental outing.
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HORSES BRAWL: DINDIRIN
BRAWL003 | Artist website
Virtuosic and experimental early music from the Norfolk-based duo of Laura Cannell and Adrian Lever. Guitar, bowed guitar, recorders, crumhorn and fiddle, simultaneously accessible and challenging.
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