| Various Artists / Deeper Polka |
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| Album: | Deeper Polka | Collection: | World | |
| Artist: | Various Artists | Added: | Jun 2002 | |
| Label: | Smithsonian/Folkways | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2002-09-23 | Pull Date: | 2002-11-25 | Charts: | Reggae/World |
| Week Ending: | Oct 13 | Oct 6 | Sep 29 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jan 08, 2011: | Music Casserole Raisin-Nut Polka, Suviyon Valssi | 4. | Oct 02, 2002: | pressandrelease Laughing Concertina, Lumber-Jakki | |
| 2. | Nov 17, 2006: | Carrots & Sticks... But Mostly Sticks In Heaven there Is no Beer, Betty Polka, Laughing Concertina | 5. | Sep 25, 2002: | Brownian Motion In Heaven there Is no Beer | |
| 3. | Oct 09, 2002: | Brownian Motion I Won't Go Home | 6. | Sep 24, 2002: | At the Cafe Bohemian Betty Polka |
| Album Review |
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| Your Imaginary Friend Reviewed 2002-08-28 | ||
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Polka. Yes, Polka. Awesome Polka. Think Tom Waits stripped of hipster’isms. Celebrating Polka’s roots through its American evolution via seven vital musicians/groups born and raised in ethnic centers throughout the Midwest. Not too much English sung anywhere, but instead Polish, Czech, Croation, Finnish, Dutch, Norwegian. These are contemporary, or at least fairly recent recordings by artists born with accordions in their hands and kielbasa in their mouths. Excellent bios and history and track by track descriptions included in the liner notes. Songs are either urgent fun 2/4 polka or more swaying smiling ¾ waltzes. Eastern European languages sound strange and exotic. Drinking fun stuff that fits anywhere. Don’t be shy. 1-4) Polish “Honky” Chicago style, clarinet and trumpet 3 is in English 5-7) Croation, no drums, tamboritza (mandolin-like), old world trad. sounding 8-11) Czech, brass band feel w/ tuba, nice clarinets 12-15) Slovenian, female lead and played, electric bass rocks this, w drums, heavily accordian centered, all instrumental 16-19) Finnish, no drums, folky mellower feel, instrumental except 19, track 18 is Tom Waits all the way w/o hipster gloss 20-23) Dutch , rings of germanic homeland tuba oom pa pa 24-27) English/Norwegian/German used in track 24, the greatest ode to beer ever written east of the Pecos (a traditional German song). In fact, this last group perfectly exemplifies the roots of old western hillbilly in european folk polka waltz. All four of these tracks are lovely. | ||
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