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Lee Murdock : Fertile Ground
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A rich recording weaving exquisite guitar instrumentals, a touch of blues, Irish, and ragtime, and some songs of the sea to foreshadow Murdock's later dive into maritime music.
Genre: Folk: Folk Blues
Release Date: 1989
Fertile Ground Record Label: Depot Recordings
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Preview Song Name Time Format Price Select
Fertile Ground 3:29 $0.99
St Louis Tickle 3:38 $0.99
The Eastland 4:24 $0.99
Trouble in Mind 4:24 $0.99
Carolan's Quarrel with the Landlady 3:07 $0.99
Lakes of Pontchartrain 5:50 $0.99
The Bigler's Crew 4:57 $0.99
Gilderoy / Flowers of the Forest 3:03 $0.99
Lady Franklin's Lament 6:57 $0.99
Dollar Down and A Dollar Week 3:02 $0.99
Charles O'Connor 1:55 $0.99
The Christmas Ship 5:26 $0.99
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Album Notes

Lee's fourth recording, Fertile Ground is strong on instrumental guitar music, with the ragtime "St Louis Tickle" and several traditional Irish, Scottish tunes, including two by Turlough O'Carolan.

Fertile Ground featured a number of maritime tunes to foreshadow his later "plunge" into Great Lakes maritime music: The first release of "The Christmas Ship," plus a haunting vocal chorus singing "The Eastland," a song written by Tom & Chris Kastle, to a melody by O'Carolan.
Two more traditional songs with a maritime background are also featured -- "Lady Franklin's Lament" and "Lakes of Pontchartrain."

The title song was written by Doug Miller when he worked as founder of the Adler House in Libertyville, Illinois. It's a lovely song which deserves to be heard, sung and recorded by more folks.

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