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Ancient Tones and Death Knells by The High Strange Drifters
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fave it Traditional Folk | Americana
12 tracks | 58 minutes
Released Feb 2004
on 3rd Silo Records
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Collaboration between members of the Ass Ponys and bluegrass legend, Ed Cunningham. This album is a collection of traditional broadside ballads played with a reverence to the original style but reinterpreted through the eyes of great modern-day musicians
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There have been enough revivals and tributes of hallowed bands and sounds and genres in the last several years for the sensible listener to be skeptical of them by now. These revivals and tributes - the ones we should be wary and tired of - fall into two camps: those who try, faithfully and desperately and grindingly and hopelessly, to recreate the sounds and music of their predecessors note for familiar note; and those who aspire only to the ironic cover version of songs that are far removed from their own sensibility, such as it is. Both camps miss the point: what is wanted in an examination and reinterpretation of old masters and their music is not slavish fidelity to that music, nor is it a fey and misguided expression of ironic, knowing contemporary superiority.
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Antient TonesRooboy wrote on April 26, 2009
Brilliant CD with a lot of differnet tracks to enjoy Greg Perth Western Australia gremar1@bigpond.com.au