It's a great CD
author: MUNE
I love all the songs on the CD
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Fun, lively and gets your feet stomping!
author: JennB
There's a great mix of fun-loving and going-all-out songs on this CD. My reactions varied between awe for the way the instruments were played to laughing out loud with the lyrics. A definite "must have" for any collection.
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Songs that keep ya moving!
author: Karlie~Anna
This CD is definitely a foot tapping, hand clapping get up and dance good time! The lyrics are phenominal the amazing banjo playing is sure to make you smile!
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The genuine article--musical, humorous, genuine, heterogeneous. PICK this one up
author: Richard Parks
Terry Joe "Banjo" has obviously put his wood-shedding time learning the paticulars of Appalachian clawhammer mountain banjo styles...dub him latter-day frailing banjoist nonpareil. But his cause here is not archival: Mountain Calling invests the instrument and playing styles with new meanings. The music is certainly cookin', and T.J. lets the various influences of life and women and answering machine messages and Beethoven and Woody Guthrie and Portuguese heritage simmer in that old-time crock pot. With some top-notch sous-cheffery from a host of other pickers and singers, it all comes out as intelligent, wordly, ensemble-backed banjo music--good for any contemporary human. There's more ways to progess than the Bela Fleck route, and Terry Joe proves that with his tradition-informed, innovative songs and arrangements. Though I don't see any real agenda here (other than good listenin' music), this is one more step forward for anybody interested in overturning the damning, tired Bonny-and-Clyde/Deliverance paradigm associated with this versatile instrument (still important).
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