Long Gone
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| Jul 2005
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Don Farrell
Reviewed 2006-01-09
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
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
Buford J. Sharkley Presents: As Told to Hervey Okkles — Nov 14, 2014
Shortenin Bread
Conan Eat Your Heart Out — May 24, 2009
Shortenin Bread
Global Warming at the Cafe Bohemian — May 27, 2008
I'm Going Home on the Mornin
There Aren't Enough Holes In One Human Body — Feb 18, 2006
Shortenin Bread
Global Warming — Feb 17, 2006
Shortenin Bread
Baptism of Global Warming — Jan 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 |