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- Art of Field Recording Volume II
- Format: CD Boxed Set
- Catalogue Number: DTD12CD
- Number of Discs: 4
- Label: Dust to Digital
- Release Date: 13 December 2010
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PRICE: £32.99
Art of Field Recording Volume II
50 Years of Traditional American Music Documented by Art Rosenbaum.
Reissue Box Set: 4 CDs, 96 page, oversized book, 10”x10” full color box. 107 Tracks on 4 CDs. Art Rosenbaum is a folk revivalist of the old school.
He believes that traditional ballads, blues, spirituals, and fiddle tunes are among the glories of American culture, and he wanted to help preserve and disseminate them. Ledbetter, forty years younger, was less interested in preservation than in inspiration: the songs on “Goodbye, Babylon” had influenced artists as diverse as Bob Dylan and Arcade Fire. The best he could do for folk music, Ledbetter seemed to feel, was to research, remaster, and repackage it as beautifully as possible—to make the old songs seem new again. “The Last Verse: Is there any folk music still out there?” Last fall, Dust-to-Digital released “Art of Field Recording: Volume I,” a four-CD retrospective of Rosenbaum’s work. It contained everything from ring shouts and murder ballads to a song about twenty frogs going to school. It was full of throaty voices and clanging banjos and the incidental music of daily life—babies crying, bar glasses clinking, cicadas on a summer night. - New Yorker
