Just an eclectic playlist of some stuff I find myself listening to a lot lately. Mostly pretty mellow stuff. There are a few of artists I’d like to single out:
- Elizabeth Cotten is a self taught left handed guitarist and banjo player from rural NC who was discovered while working for the Seeger family as a maid. She recorded here first album when she was in her 60s, and ended up recording quite a few
- Samantha Farrell‘s second album, Luminous, was produced by LeRoi Moore of DMB, and is a more interesting collection, but it is not available on Lala so I couldn’t include it in this widget. But I like this collection
too. Farrell is a talented musician with a rich voice, so I think she’d probably have to make an effort to produce a bad record.
- I’ve included a few songs from a benefit album for
Preservation Hall and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. This is a great collection of songs. The Preservation Hall Jazz Band is all about saving traditional style jazz from New Orleans. The album pairs them with some of the better known or critically acclaimed artists in contemporary popular music to sing some of the best known standards.
- Corpus Christi Bay is uncharacteristically mellow and lacking in irony for Todd Snider, but it was written by Robert Earl Keen. I like Snider’s voice on this kind of song. He should do more of them.
You probably know enough about all the rest of this stuff. Enjoy.
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