Long Gone

Clothesline Revival
Paleo Music
General | Jul 2005

Reviews

Don Farrell
Reviewed 2006-01-09
Alan Lomax (and others) a cappella field recordings from 1940's with new instrumental workover ( beats & live roots instrumentation) Totally COOL sounds.
1: 1:16 crickets at night with drone, male spoken word intro. to recordings go right into #2
***2: 2:47 harmonica railroad sound.
***3: 2:46 fem vocal & fem chorus, hand clapping, rock/blues guitar noodling
4: 2: 06 cool male almost scat/rhyming, female folk rhythm about wedding colors.
****5: 4:12 Fantastic Shortenin Bread, guitar feedback
6: 3:40 historic distorted/amplified male vocal
7: 3:07 female vocal with guitar/percussion noodling, fem chorus drone
8: 2:48 swirl sounds with male spoken word " stange things happening" swirl sounds
9: 2:32 nice female vocal " I'm troubled"
10: 4:04 female vocal song then story
11: 3:26 historic distorted/amplified male vocal, nice guitar workover
*12: 2:20 female vocal " with his old gray beard a' shinning"
13: 3:21 "music has no end-grew like a grapevine" male storyteller D Farrell 12/2005

Recent airplay

Shortenin Bread
Conan Eat Your Heart OutMay 24, 2009
Shortenin Bread
I'm Going Home on the Mornin
Shortenin Bread
Global WarmingFeb 17, 2006
Shortenin Bread
Baptism of Global WarmingJan 12, 2006

Track listing

1. Under the Ramp
2. I'm Going Home on the Mornin
3. Satisfied
4. The Color Song
5. Shortenin Bread
6. Big Boy Can't You Move Em
7. Crawdad Song
8. Strange Tings Happening
9. I'm Troubled About My Soul
10. Down in Arkansas
11. All You Rounders Better Lie
12. With His Old Gray Beard A'sh
13. Music Has no End