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- Art of Field Recording: Volume I
- Format: CD Boxed Set
- Catalogue Number: DTD08
- Number of Discs: 5
- Label: Dust to Digital
- Release Date: 12 November 2007
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PRICE: £48.99
Art of Field Recording: Volume I
Ballads, blues, spirituals, work songs and slave songs, religious singing, such as the African-American ring-shout, and other traditional folk music from Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan and New York performed with voices and stringed instruments such as banjo and fiddle.
Packaging description : 11" x 11" x 1" color cardboard box contains a 96-page 10" x 10" perfect bound book with over 100 illustrations and photographs, and four CDs with a total of 110 tracks. Compiler bio : The diverse talents of both Art and Margo Rosenbaum have allowed them to document music traditions in a way few others could have done. Art is a painter, a muralist, and an illustrator, as well as a collector and performer of traditional American folk music. Margo is a photographer that has captured many of Art's field recording encounters. Art Rosenbaum of Athens, Georgia, has been collecting and studying traditional American music for over 50 years. His focus covers Appalachian banjo tunes and ballads, Southern and Midwestern fiddle tunes, blues and spirituals. Rosenbaum began seeking out traditional performers while in his teens, rediscovering and recording the great blues guitarist Scrapper Blackwell and fiddler John W. Summers, both in his then-home state of Indiana. His fieldwork has produced archival material in the Indiana University Folklore Archives, the University of Georgia Libraries and the Archives of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. "This four-disc set unearths all manner of unknown Americana. Archivists Art and Margo Rosenbaum spent half a century recording obscure artists from the backwoods: parlour tunes, church hymns, slide blues, chain gang songs, Southern gospel and creepy country ballads. Complete with scholarly tome, the result is a riveting document of an all-but-vanished culture. An essential companion piece to Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music." - Uncut Magazine. Performers include: Banjo player Buell Kazee who appears on Anthology of American Folk Music, Folk artist and musician Howard Finster, Blues guitarist Scrapper Blackwell who recorded in the 1920s and '30s, Blues mandolin player James "Yank" Rachel who recorded in the 1920s and '30s, Blues guitarist Cecil Barfield who has had his music reissued by Fat Possum, Fiddler John W. Summers who has had his music issued by Rounder, Fiddler Gordon Tanner who recorded in the 1930s with his father Gid Tanner's band, Skillet Lickers. Assembled in a similar way to Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music. Art's folk music field work in the South and Midwest has resulted in over 14 commercially released documentary recordings, several of which are on Smithsonian-Folkways. His books include Old-Time Mountain Banjo, Folk Visions and Voices: Traditional Music and Song in North Georgia and Shout Because You're Free: The African American Ring Shout Tradition on the Coast of Georgia.
