| Seeger, Mike / True Vine |
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| Album: | True Vine | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Seeger, Mike | Added: | 06/2003 | |
| Label: | Smithsonian/Folkways | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2003-09-08 | Pull Date: | 2003-11-10 | Charts: | Country/Bluegrass |
| Week Ending: | 12 Oct | 5 Oct | 28 Sep | 21 Sep |
| Airplays: | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jun 14, 2019: | Traditions California Cotillion | 4. | Sep 06, 2004: | The Longest Short Song Marathon Honeycutt's Holler | |
| 2. | Mar 29, 2019: | Traditions Early in the Spring | 5. | Sep 06, 2004: | Short Song Marathon - Part 3 Honeycutt's Holler | |
| 3. | Aug 11, 2005: | I once was canadian Coo Coo Bird | 6. | Jul 10, 2004: | Storytime!: Pirates The Golden Willow Tree |
| Album Review |
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| Mandy Khoshnevisan Reviewed 2003-09-25 | ||
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A collection of unassuming, unpretentious rural folk tunes, trying to be as authentic as possible to the songs in their original states, including the vocals. Most are with banjo or guitar; they’re simple and cheery, even the depressing songs. Most of the time it’s just Seeger playing one instrument with great virtuosity and singing. The liner notes are Smithsonian-style super extensive and even cover which historical or reconstructed instruments Seeger plays on each track, and what tunings they each use. All songs are well-played and sound good; I starred the ones that I happened to like at the time and which seemed quirky and interesting. 1. (1:45) Simple busy, sweet banjo tune. Instrumental. *2. (2:38) Fast picked guitar, ballad with unconnected verses on a typical topic: a guy trying to find a wife. 3. (2:52) walkin’ tempo strumming, ballad about—a guy encountering a woman; turns into a murder story! *4. (3:18) midtempo stroll; guitar with picked melody; Instrumental. 5. (1:42) A cappella, one voice; story of rafting in a storm; has kinda a funny end. 6. (0:27) one voice yodeling! “just a-singin’ to myself . . .” 7. (2:13) one voice and jew’s harp. Sounds like a country dance. *8. (2:11) shaker and breathy pan-style flute (“quills”) and voice. Singing and piping at the same time is nifty. Midtempo jig. 9. (2:45) midtempo banjo and singing. 10. (3:33) banjo; cheerful song about a “spoonful” that seems to be about sex in a vague, quaint, euphemistic way. 11. (3:19) picked banjo and voice; cheerful song about gettin’ into heaven 12. (1:40) instrumental; fast minor-key guitar picking *13. (2:33) has a really cool sound, almost chinese; played on a three-string lap dulcimer, busy picking and cheery vocals 14. (3:14) wistful quick strolling guitar strums and a story ballad about untrue love 15. (3:14) strolling guitar picking with a pretty familiar tune; plaintive lyrics about escaping on a freight train 16. (2:08) instrumental waltz played on fiddle and harmonica 17. (4:06) harmonica and fiddle and vocals; wailing lament to a girl slipping into prostitution, basically, I think *18. (1:39) raw dancing fiddle tune (the fiddle is strung with banjo strings, FYI) 19. (1:57) pretty skipping waltz on harmonica *20. (7:01) plucky rolling banjo, tragic ballad about a carpenter boy and a ship called the Golden Willow Tree (exact same story and really similar words, but different tune, from a song called the Golden Vanity) *21. (2:36) bell-like instrumental played on—an autoharp! An old-fashioned Spanish sound. 22. (3:04) strummy autoharp! And a story about a guy trying to find a girl who doesn’t just love his money. *23. (3:15) strummy autoharp and “quills” (the pan pipe sound) and vocals; triumphant sounding ----reviewed by mandy (la chanteuse) | ||
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