Another good minstrel recording, authentic and fun
author: Bob Clayton
This is the third Camptown Shakers CD I have bought, and all of them have featured good, authentic Minstrel playing, with all the rough edges, rhtyhmic drive, and leather-lung vocals you expect from this style.
Not all the numbers on this CD are as interesting as those on the other recordings, and a few of the tunes are, to my mind, from later than the Minstrel Era (or, at least, later in the Minstrel Era) when the early enthusiastic style was at its most vigorous.
Nonetheless, it's a really interesting and enjoyable.
Bob Clayton
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Can't get enough of these guys
author: Sojo
hear great old gut string fretless banjo, fiddle, bones "The Camptown Shakers"
These guys are great...remind me of the early rounders
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GREAT REAL OLD TYME Music...You would swear you were transported back in time!
author: john gin
I am a player myself and this album is what it's all about.
So true to the sound of an era!
You will not be disappointed.
Wonderful old style fretless gut string banjo and fiddle!
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Great CD and Waterbound is fun to hear.
author: Dave Hare
This is a great CD to play again and again. I liked the old time sound of the instruments. There is a nice mix of tunes on the album worth hearing; some familar and some not, but all done well. I particularly liked "Waterbound" maybe because I've been to Pea Pach Island, or maybe just because its a fun tune.
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