Clothesline Revival
Of My Native Land
© 2002 Paleo Music (757312500123)
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Post-modern folk, ambient Americana, acid country; Moby meets the 'Oh Brother Where Art Thou' soundtrack -roots music mixed with beats and atmospheres in a unique and quirky blend.
tracks
- 1 Ramblin' Man
- 2 Cow Cow Yicky Yicky Yea
- 3 Gypsy Laddy
- 4 Wade In The Water
- 5 My Home Is Not A Home
- 6 Bodie
- 7 The One I Love Is Gone
- 8 Little Maggie
- 9 Story About William Riley Shelton
- 10 The Turtledove
- 11 Calling Trains
- 12 Pullin' The Skiff
- 13 My Sweet Love Ain't Around
- 14 The Time Has Come
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Neo-traditionalists Conrad Praetzel and Robert Powell stake out their claim in the Americana landscape with an eclectic mix of ambient folk and acid/alt country. Clothesline Revival blends electronic and acoustic beats with dobro, mandolin, guitars, lap and pedal steel guitar, ebow, atmospherics and more to create a captivating new sound with an old-time haunting quality.
Included are adaptations of historical field recordings (several recorded by the legendary American musicologist John A. Lomax) including performances by Leadbelly, Ora Dell Graham, and an unidentified old train caller. Vocalists Wendy Allen and Tom Armstrong lend their talents to songs by Hank Williams, Bill Monroe, Onie Wheeler, Anne Briggs as well as to traditional American folk songs. Wendy Allen, from North Carolina, is a mesmerizing singer and interpreter of American roots music, while Tom Armstrong's vocals recall classic honky- tonk and country crooners of the fifties like Wynn Stewart and
Letfy Frizzel.
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"The band Clothesline Revival is on to something special by helping reinvent the roots genre known as Americana" - Chris Nickson, All Things Considered (NPR)
"Marrying traditional music from a wide range of sources to maverick musical treatments, loops, beats and samples has produced brilliant offspring." - Frank Goodman/puremusic.com
"The album Moby should have made instead of Play, although it wouldn't garner those lucrative ad contracts. O Brother meets Americana gracefully, sampling Leadbelly and others more obscure, with instruments, vocals, beats and atmospheres. And anyone who thinks rap began with the Sugarhill Gang needs to hear "Pullin' The Skiff" - Chris Nickson/Seattle Weekly - Top Ten of 2002
Original, funky, rootsy, untamed, fun, deep, off-beat, eclectic and with a sense of wonder - all with a tasteful quirkyness, spiced with the things I love in good music. Bravo!" - Frank Matheis/ WKZE CT
"...a fresh soulful version of Americana." - Karen Olson/ Utne Reader
" I'd be surprized if you've ever heard anything quite like it before. A real musical adventure." - Julie Flaskett/ Country Music People
"...dang-near every track rewards repeated listens, old meeting new in strange, exciting ways." - Ned Hammad/ Tower Pulse!
"...unlike anything you've ever heard called "folk music", but it is, and mighty fine besides." -Chris Frank/efolkmusic.com
"...positive proof that everything old is new again." - j. poet/ Paste Magazine
"Post O Brother bluegrass hickbilly and banjos in overalls it definitely isn't, thank heavens". -Ian Anderson/ fRooots
"In an era where musical appropriation and cross-pollination have become the virtual norm, Praetzel and co. have accomplished something truly unprecedented and wonderful -- and something deeply meaningful to anyone with an appreciation for the American folk tradition." - Jesse Ashlock/epitonic.com
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This CD is a masterpiece!!!
author: Sadie ComptonThis is my new favorite CD! It's incredibly beautiful!!! This band blends the fantastic old stuff with the modern-day stuff respectfully and seamlessly. It's a whole genre unto itself! I can't get enough of it. If you love old Blues, Hank Williams, medieval ballads, slide guitar, and appalachian stringband/bluegrass music... BUT you're fully livin' in the 21st century... this CD is for you. BUY IT! It's so incredibly great. I'm tellin' all my friends to get this one. Love it, love it, love it!!!!!
merging traditional music with electronica
author: LouisI listen to the recordings made by Alan Lomax in the South of the 1930s and 1940s. I'm also interested in electronica. This CD merges the two and, improbably, makes it sound seamless. It has the mystery of the old music, and it rocks, too.
Old meets everything and your right in the middle of it.
author: BreaI didn't know anything about the band except that I heard a short review of their CD on NPR. All the knowledge I know about them now comes purely from listening to their music. It tells me that they are experimental, playful, and work in a kind of helter-skelter collaboration that leaves anyone who listens on the edge of their seat with anticipation of what will be next. The songs are like a soft amber that preserves the beauty and integrity of the original balleds within and then uses its own beauty and amorphic qualitys to make each one glow.