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Immerse yourself in the captivating melodies and narrative magic that define the enduring allure of Folk Music.\u003c\/span\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-carter-family-the-carter-family-collection-vol-1-1927-34_aec-acbt6010-2","title":"The Carter Family - The Carter Family Collection Vol. 1 1927-34","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Carter Family are among the most important artists in the entire history of popular music. They were pioneers in writing and recording folk and country music for the commercial market, and their huge output of songs and recordings has become a major influence on music that has come after them in bluegrass, country, gospel, folk, skiffle, pop and rock. Acrobat has recognised their importance by creating two 6-CD sets to present the primary element of their recorded output - those recordings between 1927 and 1941 featuring the original incarnation of the group, A.P. Carter, his wife Sara Carter, and his sister in-law Maybelle Carter. This first of the sets addresses the years from 1927 to 1934, in a 125-track 6-CD collection comprising just about all their releases from this era on the Victor, Montgomery Ward and Bluebird labels. It features their famous hits from these years, including \"Bury Me Under The Weeping Willow\", Keep On the Sunny Side\", Wildwood Flower\", \"I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes\", \"Little Darling Pal of Mine\", \"Worried Man Blues\", and \"Lonesome Valley\" along with other classics like \"My Clinch Mountain Home\", \"Foggy Mountain Top\", \"John Hardy\" and \"Jimmie Brown The Newsboy\". 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As a guitarist and singer, Van Ronk's repertoire covered the gamut of traditional American folk and blues music, encompassing ragtime, skiffle, jug band music, New Orleans jazz, and swing as he helped popularise folk music in the changing musical environment of the post rock 'n' roll era. This great value 47-track 2-CD collection comprises recordings from the first five years of his recording career as he established himself at the core of New York's vibrant folk scene. It includes titles from one of his first recording projects, a 1958 album on the obscure Lyrichord label with the The Orange Blossom Jug Five called \"Skiffle In Stereo\", plus the complete content of his first three solo albums as a folk-blues artist for the Folkways and Prestige labels - \"Dave Van Ronk Sings Ballads, Blues, and a Spiritual\", \"Dave Van Ronk Sings\" and \"Dave Van Ronk, Folksinger\". 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The CD is a wide-ranging musical mosaic of contemporary and traditional-sounding gems by some of the world's best songwriters. Gaughan's ability to take other writers' songs and make them personal statements is amazing. As with many Gaughan recordings, this one mixes songs of political, historical, natural and personal themes, including compositions by Pete Seeger (the timeless 'Turn! Turn! Turn!'), Si Kahn ('Gone, Gonna Rise Again'), the late Townes Van Zandt (his classic 'Pancho and Lefty'), the Incredible String Band's Robin Williamson ('October Song'), fellow Scot Brian McNeill (founder of the Battlefield Band and a favorite source of Gaughan's cover songs), Ron Kavana, and even a raw, aching reading of the Everly Brothers' tender oldie, 'Let It Be Me.' Bio: Dick Gaughan is a singer, songwriter and musical interpreter of tremendous depth and passion, often labeled 'the Scottish Woody Guthrie.' 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Gaughan's previous recordings in a 30-year career include those as a member of the Celtic bands The Boys of the Lough, Five Hand Reel and Clan Alba and over a dozen albums as a solo or occasional duo artist. His music has never been accused of slickness or commercialism, and the sparse approach of 'Outlaws \u0026amp; Dreamers' provides a particularly bracing dose of undiluted Gaughan, one of the world's most stirring musicians. In the CD's liner notes, Gaughan defines 'outlaws' as 'those who refuse to conform to society's conventions and prejudices.' By that definition, the material (and recording method) on 'Outlaws \u0026amp; Dreamers' could be regarded as a tribute to those outlaws and their quest for personal and universal freedom through activism and self-determination. Whether the songs on the CD are original or interpreted, most carry freedom as their subtext. In the version here of Woody Guthrie's 'Tom Joad' (based on John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath'), Gaughan pledges, 'Wherever people aren't free\/Wherever working people are fighting for their rights\/That's where I'm gonna be.' At the other extreme, Gaughan celebrates the peaceful beauty and unattended freedom of the titular 'Wild Roses,' a song by Texas performer Kimmie Rhodes. The interior strength of those with disabilities is paid tribute on the Si Kahn composition 'What You Do With What You've Got,' a perennial Gaughan show-opener. The freedom to experience life is found in Gaughan's cover of Phil Ochs' 'When I'm Gone,' the freedom to protest in Graham Moore's 'Tom Paine's Bones,' and the freedom of self-sacrifice in 'Strong Women Rule Us All,' a lesson in Scottish mythology by Brian McNeill (a Gaughan colleague in Clan Alba and frequent source of songs). Another McNeill composition, 'The Yew Tree,' views the ebb and flow of Scotland's freedom and history from the viewpoint of a 1000-year-old tree. Gaughan's own compositions include the title track ('And here's to the future where dreams will be honored\/And the fierce flame of freedom that burns in our hearts') and a nimble, charming guitar instrumental, 'Florence in Florence.' He also collaborated with McNeill on 'John Harrison's Hands,' the true story of an inventor long denied the freedom to reap the rewards of accomplishment because of his low social standing. As the son of a Scottish mother and Irish father, Gaughan is steeped in the traditional music of the British Isles, and on 'Outlaws \u0026amp; Dreamers' he finally records 'Dowie Dens o Yarrow,' which he describes as 'one of the first big Scots ballads I ever learned and sang. I haven't sung it for thirty years and decided it was time to revisit it.' 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In other words, the self-proclaimed 'Bastard Son of Bob Dylan and Joan Baez' has remained a master of literate, brash, insightful and acerbically funny folk, rock and pop throughout a 15-year career and more than ten albums. Appleseed's new 'It Happened One Night \u0026amp; It Never Happened At All' release is a musical and historical windfall for critics, fans and Harding newbies alike: the 2-CD set marries an expanded, remastered 19-track version of Harding's live, solo, acoustic debut, 'It Happened One Night,' with a second disc of 14 previously unreleased studio recordings from the late Eighties, some featuring members of Elvis Costello's Attractions. 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Including eight studio versions of 'It Happened' songs, many with full band accompaniment from members of the Attractions, Lindisfarne, Mark-Almond, and other outstanding musicians, 'It Never Happened' displays Harding experimenting with musical styles - folk, C\u0026amp;W, blues, that rocking Bo Diddley beat - behind his already mature songs of personal and global politics, romantic relationships, and self-effacing but universal verities. The passion, fearlessly confrontational songs, and wit of musical predecessors Dylan, Springsteen, Costello and Billy Bragg are part of Harding's background, but he has blazed his own trail throughout his career, constantly tinkering with production approaches, studio sidemen, and performance lineups (solo or with band). What remains constant is the intensity, courage, perceptiveness, vulnerability, and humor of his outlook, informed by experience, age, perspective, and the can-you-believe-it events of our daily world. About JOHN WESLEY HARDING First there was Wesley Stace, born in Hastings, England in 1965 to a mother who taught singing and a father who was a classics scholar. Then there was pop music - the Beach Boys, David Bowie - for him to listen to. And then there was Bob Dylan, whose songs changed 14-year-old Wes's life (and name). After completing his degree in English Literature at Cambridge University, Wes yielded to the call of songwriting and performance, crafting his own music and pomposity-puncturing stage presence. A subsequent move to London thrust him before larger audiences as the opening act for such diverse artists as John Hiatt, Hothouse Flowers and Ted Hawkins. Signed by the UK's Demon Records, ironically the home of Elvis Costello, to whom Harding was initially compared, Wes and his manager made the strategic 'mistake' that led to his recording premiere, 'It Happened One Night': 'I'd done a total of about thirty gigs before I recorded my debut album; the songs were live, so no one wanted to play them on the radio; I was writing a lot at the time, so I was bored of these songs by the time it came to record 'Here Comes the Groom' (his first US CD and second release overall, described in the L.A. Times as 'the first great rock album on the '90s'). On the other hand, he also admits that, 'as a record of me in the first year of my career, I like ['It Happened']. It shows me exactly as I was at a very typical show, singing (sometimes in tune), full of words, perfecting my 'strum und drang' guitar technique, doing everything very very fast.' And very quickly the CD established Harding as a worthy link in the chain of personally aware, politically conscious, literate, and acerbically observant modern songwriters that connects Dylan, Springsteen, Costello, Bragg and a shortlist of others. Critics were quick to notice: 'His eloquence can be gut-wrenching. [The album] captures something you won't find . . . almost anywhere else: the sheer joy of performing' (Creem). After recording many of the tracks that now appear as the second half of 'It Happened One Night \u0026amp; It Never Happened At All,' Wes signed with Sire Records in the US and found his career escalating with three consecutive high-profile CDs ('Here Comes the Groom,' 'The Name Above the Title' and 'Why We Fight,' the latter produced by Steve Berlin of Los Lobos), and tours of his new home, the United States, as a headliner or supporting such artists as Michelle Shocked, The Band, Joan Baez and prestigious others. 'Why We Fight' caught the attention of Bruce Springsteen, and Harding was eventually handpicked to open shows on The Boss's 1995 'Ghost of Tom Joad' solo tour - Springsteen's first opening act since 1978. Throughout the '90s, Wes stayed busy in recording studios and on the road. In 1992, Rhino belatedly released 'It Happened One Night' in the US (in it's original form, with two less songs), and 'John Wesley Harding's New Deal' in 1996. In 1998, Wes and musician\/friend\/'New Deal' producer Chris von Sneidern recorded 'Awake' for the Zero Hour label, before tabling new Harding originals for 1999's 'Trad Arr Jones,' a tribute to the folk arrangements of accident-incapacitated British folksinger and guitarist Nic Jones. ('Awake' and 'Trad Arr Jones' were both reissued by Appleseed in 2000 in remastered and expanded format, with 'Awake: The New Edition' gaining a 1994 live duet between Harding and Springsteen on Bruce's 'Wreck on the Highway' among it's bonus tracks.) New CDs, label alliances, TV appearances, and international tours have continued for Wes, with his most recent CD, 'Adam's Apple,' issued in February 2004 on the DRT label. While Appleseed's expanded reissue of 'It Happened One Night' and it's previously unreleased 'partner,' 'It Never Happened At All,' completes one cycle in Harding's career, he is busily preparing for an additional career as an author, his novel, 'Misfortune,' set in the 19h Century, will be published in April 2005 by Little, Brown Books. Singer, songwriter, musical interpreter, novelist - Harding's talents and intelligence assure him an audience in whatever media he chooses. Watch for him on tour, listen to his recordings, and, as one of his previous CDs suggests, trust the name above the title. In the words of his signature song, 'The Devil in Me,' Harding shares the hardest lesson in life: 'It all seems just like human behavior to me.' 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