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Axton Kincaid
Beolach
Chumbawamba (New Releases!)
Joe Heaney
Derrick Jensen (New Release!)
Mary Jane Lamond
John Lilly
Wendy MacIsaac
Mostar Sevdah Reunion
Casey Neill
Nethers (New Release!)
Utah Phillips
David Rovics
Michael White
The Wilders (New Release!)
Terence Winch
Doug & Telisha Williams
Various Artists (New Releases!)
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Beolach
Beolach
(BM-CD-001)
Beolach (a Galeic word meaning "lively youth") is one of Cape Breton's most exciting young bands. Featuring master musicians Wendy MacIsaac (fiddle, banjo, piano), Mairi Rankin (fiddle), Patrick Gillis (guitar), Ryan MacNeil (pipes,whistles), and Mac Morin (piano, accordion), the group performs an energetic mix of Cape Breton, Scottish, and Irish tunes and thrills audiences with energetic performances, witty presentation, and versatile stepdancing. This two-time East Coast Music Awards (ECMA) nominated group recorded their self titled debut album in the summer of 2001 at Lakewind Sound in Point Aconi Cape Breton. The recording features original compositions as well as the group's uniquely dynamic arrangements of their favorite traditional tunes. Although Be˜lach musicians present these tunes in a contemporary style, they maintain a respect and understanding of the Cape Breton style that is sure to please fans of Celtic and world music.
Sound samples:
Track 1- Slip Set mp3
Track 4- The Hen Party mp3
Track 10- Scott Skinner's mp3
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Chumbawamba
The Boy Bands Have Won
(ROOT-CD-0006)
Chumbawamba is back, armed with acoustic guitars, accordion and trumpet, five-part harmonies, a bucketful of attitude and a new 25-track album called The Boy Bands Have Won. It actually has a much longer title than that (See cover for full title), but let's call it by its pseudonym. The new album is a collection of such ideas; some are just passing thoughts, others are fully-formed songs. It's gentle and warm in tone, but caustic in intent. It plays with culture, with the idea of recycling our own culture. We all have this vast history of "stuff", musical and historical and in art and sport and politics and a million other things. And it's all there for the taking. Featuring guests the OysterBand, Roy Bailey, Robb Johnson, Barry Coope and Jim Boyes... and a hundred others, give or take a few.
"We should be grateful for the Chumbas. Moving on from that anarchic post-punk phase and the bestselling single "Tubthumping", they have eased across to the folk scene and reinvented themselves yet again - this time as a classy, low-key harmony band writing inventive, intelligent songs." -- Robin Denselow, The Guardian (UK)
Sound samples: Coming Soon
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Chumbawamba
Get On With It: Live
(ROOT-CD-0005)
Anyone who's been to a Chumbawamba show recently will testify to the importance and relevance of releasing this live album. The band engages and plays off the audience by approaching radical music from a warm and communal standpoint. Aware that so many bands just get on stage and play, refusing to interact with the audience, Chumbawamba are determined to make gigs inclusive, not alienating. People at gigs asked if they could buy the album that sounded most like tonight, and the band felt that none of their albums caught the show as it stands today. Get On With It: Live is pop, folk, a capella, politics, humor, four-part harmony and five-part anger. It's sing-alongs and hymns, throwaways and big choruses, old favorites, covers and unreleased songs, including two tracks only available on this North American release!
...wit, compassion and great harmonies - staying avowedly political. The iron (left) fist in a sweet velvet glove.
- Chris Nickson, Globalvilliageidiot.com
Sound samples:
Track 1- Buy Nothing Day mp3
Track 4- Hard Times of Old England mp3
Track 12- On eBay mp3
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Chumbawamba
English Rebel Songs 1381-1984
(ROOT-CD-0004)
English Rebel Songs 1381-1984 is Chumbawamba's homage to the men and women who never had obituaries in the broadsheets; those who never received titles or appeared in as an entry in "Who's Who." This is an album that conjures up the tragedies and triumphs of the people who shaped England: its citizens. This album was originally recorded in 1988 when Chumbawamba was determined to stir up a rout in the tiny anarcho-punk community by swapping guitars and drums for a capella singing. The songs were discovered in songbooks, in folk clubs and on cassette tapes, chopped and changed and bludgeoned into shape with utmost respect for the original tunes. Fierce, sweet and powerful, English Rebel Songs 1381-1984 contains ballads not included on the original album. It's guaranteed to sway the listener, break hearts and encourage hope...just as those who inspired the songs by changing history.
Chumbawamba sing English Rebel Songs sensitively and with harmonious beauty. - Mike Harding, BBC
Sound samples:
Track 2- The Diggers Song mp3
Track 4- The Triumph of General Ludd mp3
Track 8- Smashing of the Van mp3
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Chumbawamba
A Singsong & a Scrap
(ROOT-CD-0003)
This new, mainly acoustic Chumbawamba album is, for the first time, a collection of songs, pure and simple. Songs with a radical voice, songs with those same old same old Chumbawamba fourpart harmonies and catchy choruses, but songs nevertheless songs without drumloops or samples, without backwards cymbals or synth sequencers. It won't fit neatly into any categories, since it stands with its eight legs in different camps. Traditional English music, 'unplugged' pop, choral secular music, jangly acoustic singalongs... oh! Just sling a few barely related words together to create categories that sound vaguely familiar.
Sound samples:
Track 2- William Francis mp3
Track 7- Fade Away mp3
Track 10- The Land of Do What You're Told mp3
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Derrick Jensen
Now This War Has Two Sides
(ROOT-CD-0007)
Author, teacher, activist, and leading voice of uncompromising dissent, Derrick Jensen regularly stirs auditoriums across the country with revolutionary spirit. Examining the premises of his latest controversial work Endgame as well as core elements of his ground breaking book Culture of Make Believe, this two hour lecture and discussion offers both a perfect introduction for newcomers and additional insight for those already familiar with Derrick Jensen's work. Whether exposing the ravages of industrial civilization, relaying humorous anecdotes from his life, or bravely presenting a few of the endless forms that resistance can (and must) take, Jensen leaves his audience both engaged and enraged.
"Derrick Jensen is a rare and original voice of sanity in a chaotic world. He has wisdom and wit, grace and style, and is a wonderful guide to a good life beautifully lived."
-Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States
Sound samples:
Disc 1 Track 5- Voluntary Transformation mp3
Disc 1 Track 8- Get Back in the Real World mp3
Disc 2 Track 7- Hope mp3
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Mary Jane Lamond
Storas
(02-06363)
Mary Jane's latest recording Storas (Gaelic meaning "a treasure"), is a beautiful interpretation of some of the Scottish Gaelic songs that have become part of Nova Scotia's Gaelic tradition. Her use of modern instrumentation and arrangements provides a respectful and beautful framework for these Gaelic treasures, but it is Mary Jane's spellbinding vocal performance and heartfelt delivery that makes these selections truly come alive for the listener.
"...immaculate vocals that just send the listener into bliss... her caressing voice take command. She illustrates why the human voice is considered a noteworthy instrument."
-- San Jose Mercury News
Sound samples:
Track 2- Oran Luaidh mp3
Track 4- Mo Nighean Donn As Boidhehe mp3
Track 6- Gur E Mo Run An Domhallach mp3
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John Lilly
Haunted Honky Tonk
(JL-2007)
The latest recording from award-winning artist John Lilly continues to show off his wide repertoire of original, traditional, and classic country music hits. Haunted Honky Tonk is powerfully performed with remarkable depth and features ten original songs plus a number of classic traditional country tunes. It includes guest appearances by Bill Kirchen, Chuck Campbell, Ginny Hawker, Buddy Griffin, Chris Stuart, Janet Beazely and others. The enhanced CD highlights a music video and other exciting bonus content.
"Lilly delivers in every possible way, keeping alive the dream that country music still lives."
-- Americanaroots.com
Sound samples: Coming Soon
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John Lilly
Last Chance to Dance
(JL-2003)
As a past winner of the national Ghost Writers In the Sky songwriting contest (sponsored by Chicago-based HankFest) and as the current editor of Goldenseal (A magazine about cultural and historical traditions in West Virginia) John Lilly is steeped in country and Appalachian music tradition. It most certainly carries through to Lilly's musicianship. His creative, original songs recall the sounds of earlier generations, while his innovative treatment of early country and traditional music is timeless. Last Chance to Dance is exactly this; a heart stopping collection of original songs, old-time ballads and early country tunes that is sure to conjure up visions of barn dances, old-time jukeboxes, and Jimmie Rodgers.
"If Hank Williams had a sunny disposition, he'd be John Lilly" -- Independent Weekly (Durham, NC)
"Lilly's the real thing -- he's got the 'feel,' the intensity, the soul, and the sweetness in his music." -- Bluegrass Unlimited
Sound samples: Coming Soon
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Casey Neill
Memory Against Forgetting
(AKA 041 CD)
"This is a collection of songs steeped in memories I've lived, lived by others, never lived at all. They span 10 years of my recording career and fluctuate in style, form, and instrumentation. I was different people, and I am all too much the fucking same. The songs are culled from live shows, lost tracks, compilations, and an out of print CD called Riffraff. It's only the ones I can still live with. "People call songs like this topical (is it anesthesia? Am I at the dentist? Don't all songs have a topic?). The many country songs I write about losing the girl aren't here, anyway. Since this is mostly archival material, these aren't timely responses to current events. They are simply stories that hopefully speak to something bigger. And some piss and vinegar too."--Casey Neill, from the liner notes. Contemporary, political folk (not to mention Celtic) at its finest.
Sound samples:
Track 1- Memory Against Forgetting mp3
Track 5- Riffraff mp3
Track 12- Radio Montana mp3
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Nethers
What the Wind Will Never Tell
(IZN-CD-003)
This sophomore full-length effort from Nethers is the impeccable result of what happens when a band travels over 3,000 miles to record in the garage of an esteemed producer who they've never met before. Together with Thom Monahan (Pernice Brothers, Gary Louris, Lilys, Lavender Diamond), the band created What the Wind Would Never Tell, a seamless collection of incandescent pop and late-night mood pieces, Sunday morning hangover music and dark, brooding funeral hymns, galloping psych-summer sing-a-longs, and heart-aching waltzes... All sung with stunning warmth, depth, and haunting beauty by vocalist Nikki West. It comes on the heels of their critically claimed debut, In Field We Will Lie, a 3-week stint with Dungen, and shows with the Decemberists, the Walkmen, the National, and Josh Ritter.
"Startlingly beautiful." -- Washington Post
"Pure Genius." -- The Village Voice
Sound samples: Coming Soon
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Michael White
Voices
(IZN-CD-001)
Michael White is a truly original and groundbreaking violinist in the realm of jazz. In the 1960s, he introduced the violin into the free jazz scenes of the Bay Area and New York, playing with luminaries such as Sun Ra, John Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders. In the early 1970s, he was a founding member of the first fusion group, the "Fourth Way". Here he reunites with bassist Cecil McBee and percussionist Kenneth Nash, and includes vocalist Leisei Chen and guitarist Timothy Young to celebrate the 30th anniversary of White's legendary Impulse Jazz release The Land of Spirit and Light. With music ranging from original compositions, classic jazz, bossa nova, latin, and improvisational sounds inspired by the diversity of world culture, this recording will move and delight you!
Sound samples:
Track 3- Jeff's Place mp3
Track 5- Mechanical Man mp3
Track 8- Fiesta Dominical mp3
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The Wilders
Sittin' on a Jury
(DIRT-EP-0055)
Sittin' on a Jury marks an extraordinary transition for The Wilders from the country and old-time music you've grown to love, to a new set of original tunes that have been brewing in their subconscious for quite some time. This limited-edition 10-inch red vinyl release begins with the familiar Wilders sound in three classic songs never before recorded by the band: "Bringing in the Georgia Mail", "I'm a Long Gone Daddy," and fiddle tune "Brown's Dream" (featuring Dirk Powell on banjo). With the title track, "Sittin' on a Jury", things head in an unexpected direction. This epic track is a musical journey that takes you through a collage of American musical styles, from dark, reflective, bluesy tunes to energetic driving rhythms. One listen and you'll be pleasantly surprised by the new path The Wilders are forging. 2,000 copies of this release were pressed with great care. Once they're gone, they're gone!
Sound samples:
Track 1- Bringing in the Georgia Mail mp3
Track 4- Sittin' on a Jury mp3
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The Wilders
Spring a Leak
(DIRT-CD-0052)
With Spring a Leak, The Wilders have yet again laid down the perfect sound and feel of the old honky tonks of the 1940s and 50s. Simply put, they've "done got it." From country classics like Roger Miller's "Kansas City Star" to obscure fiddle tunes like "Old Leather Bonnet with a Hole in the Crown", Ike Sheldon (lead vocals, guitar), Betse Ellis (fiddle, vocals), Phil Wade (dobro, mandolin, banjo, vocals), and Nate Gawron (string bass, vocals) breathe life into forgotten gems with unbridled energy and skill, matching the emotion and vigor that they bring to their must-see live shows. Originally released in 2003, this newly re-mastered recording also features three rare bonus tracks!
Sound samples:
Track 3- Kansas City Star mp3
Track 4- Oklahoma Run mp3
Track 13- Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy mp3
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The Wilders
Throw Down
(DIRT-CD-0053)
The Wilders continue their breakneck speed, hillbilly string band ways on their latest release, Throw Down. Joined by producer extraordinaire Dirk Powell, Ike Sheldon (lead vocals, guitar), Betse Ellis (fiddle, vocals), Phil Wade (dobro, mandolin, banjo, vocals), and Nate Gawron (upright bass, vocals) perform their very own original "hillbilly riot" songs and fiddle tunes, as well as vintage country, old time, and honky-tonk music, with unsurpassed energy and character. Just as their celebrated "must-see" live shows and incessant touring have established a rabid fan base and loads of critical acclaim, their virtuosic performances on Throw Down solidify The Wilders as a premier Americana band.
Sound samples:
Track 3- It'll Never be Thru with Us (Until It's Thru with You) mp3
Track 5- Squirrel Hunters mp3
Track 17- Honky Tonk Habit (Live at KEXP Seattle) mp3
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Various Artists
Pulling Down the Clouds: Contemporary Native Writers Read Their Work
(NMAI-CD-001)
The Native Writers Series of readings at the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) in Washington, DC, features some of most engaging and provocative Native writers working today. To celebrate the fourth season of the Native Writers Series, the museum is pleased to release the first-ever CD anthology of Native writers reading from their works. The audio compilation features renowned Native authors, including Pulitzer Prize winner N. Scott Momaday, Louise Erdrich, Simon Ortiz, Susan Power, Joy Harjo and many others. Alternately funny and moving, angry and contemplative, the recorded readings confront and comment on the Native American experience--including relocation, loss of language, and community survival--as well as universal themes of love, death, and family bonds. Together, they provide a wealth of Native voices that blend with and shape the literary traditions from which they arise.
Sound samples:
Track 1- Excerpt from "The Voices of Encounter" by N. Scott Momaday mp3
Track 13- Exceprt from "Letter to Lawson" by Joy Harjo mp3
Track 16- American Indians Attempt to Assassinate Indian Mascot" by LeAnne Howe mp3
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Naila Ceribasic & Erica Haskell, eds.
Shared Musics and Minority Identities: Papers from the Third Meeting of the "Music and Minorities"
(ISBN 9536020327)
In the last decade the 'Music and Minorities" Study Group of the International Council for Traditional Music has been a driving force in the ethnomusicological study of minorities and their music. This volume, titled Shared Musics and Minority Identities, contains papers from the Study Group's third meeting, which was held in 2004 in Roc, Croatia. The three mutually interlocking themes of the meeting were: 1. Multiple identities and identity management in the music of minorities, 2. Emics and etics in relation to the music of minorities, 3. Marginality, empowerment and applied ethnomusicology. But, the sharing of identities inside or beyond a supposedly firm ethnic group, the sharing of musics between different ethnic groups, and the issue of sharing between researchers (and other experts) and their subjects have appeared as the three conjunctive aspects of the papers in this volume, and the basis for their sequence. This volume directly follows the collections of papers from two previous meetings of the Study Group "Music and Minorities".
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