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Put your hands on the remote! browse music »The Wind and the Crickets by Mustard's Retreat
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fave it Traditional Folk | Gentle
15 tracks | 53 minutes
Released Dec 2004
on Palmetto Records
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:17 Gather The Family lyrics BUY MP3 02:17 Gather The Family lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:17 Gather The Family
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:02 That Kind of Morning lyrics BUY MP3 03:02 That Kind of Morning lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:02 That Kind of Morning
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:18 Remembering My Incarnations lyrics BUY MP3 04:18 Remembering My Incarnations lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:18 Remembering My Incarnations
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:32 Lost Beyond All Reason lyrics BUY MP3 02:32 Lost Beyond All Reason lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:32 Lost Beyond All Reason
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:39 Well Here We Are lyrics BUY MP3 03:39 Well Here We Are lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:39 Well Here We Are
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:21 Welcome Back lyrics BUY MP3 03:21 Welcome Back lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:21 Welcome Back
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:30 Soft Falls the Snow lyrics BUY MP3 03:30 Soft Falls the Snow lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:30 Soft Falls the Snow
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:34 City Beat lyrics BUY MP3 03:34 City Beat lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:34 City Beat
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:07 Let's Hear It for the Volunteers lyrics BUY MP3 03:07 Let's Hear It for the Volunteers lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:07 Let's Hear It for the Volunteers
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:29 Gone Again lyrics BUY MP3 04:29 Gone Again lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:29 Gone Again
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:43 Hopelessly Midwestern lyrics BUY MP3 03:43 Hopelessly Midwestern lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:43 Hopelessly Midwestern
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:05 In the Cool of the Summer's Evening lyrics BUY MP3 04:05 In the Cool of the Summer's Evening lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:05 In the Cool of the Summer's Evening
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:36 Festival Night lyrics BUY MP3 04:36 Festival Night lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:36 Festival Night
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:52 Talking Midlife lyrics BUY MP3 03:52 Talking Midlife lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:52 Talking Midlife
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:46 Faded Blue & Gold lyrics BUY MP3 03:46 Faded Blue & Gold lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:46 Faded Blue & Gold
A coffee house and festival favorite with two of Mustard's Retreat's most requested songs: Gather the Family (a capella) and Let's Hear it for the Volunteers. "Achieves landmark status... Insightful and intricate... exquisite harmonies." - SingOut.
Bio / Background
Thirty-one years may not seem like such a long time in the life of a human being, a tree or a folk song. But in the fickle world of modern music, where pop stars shy of their 21st birthdays often see their careers dumped into oldies bins, thirty-one years is a very long time. So as David Tamulevich and Michael Hough celebrate their 31st Anniversary as Mustard's Retreat, the same question seemed to burn among aspiring young performers and road-weary old folkies - why you guys?
In searching for the answer, one word comes up again and again, the simple word "audience." Everything Mustard's Retreat does on a stage is aimed at pleasing, moving and engaging their audience. Whether singing their own gentle love songs and vivid ballads, telling tall tales or offering treasures from America's vast traditional song bag, a Mustard's Retreat show always feels like it's designed for the people who have come to see them that day, in that coffeehouse, school, concert hall or festival.
↓ more ↓Audiences sense this from the moment David and Michael hit the stage, are drawn to it like hungry kids to Sunday supper and reward it the best way they know how. They come to see Mustard's Retreat again and again. And again.
Spike Barkin, who produces the prestigious Roots of American music Festival at New York City's Lincoln Center, wrote to thank them for their "folk from the heart," going on to say it seemed like David and Michael "take your living room on the road with you and invite people in as friends." David Siglin, of Ann Arbor's legendary Ark Coffeehouse, where Mustard's Retreat played their first songs together, said, "In order to last there has to be more than just talent - you have to enjoy playing, enjoy audiences and enjoy being in front of them. Audiences go to your shows because they know they will be entertained." Margie Rosenkranz, manager of the stalwart Eighth Step Coffeehouse in Albany, NY, said a Mustard's Retreat show "reminds us why we're doing this, pulls people together," adding that the duo transcends the vagaries of passing trends because they remain so "in tune with the audience."
"As much as we aim to entertain, we also look to educate," David Tamulevich said of the way Mustard's Retreat approaches audiences, "and hopefully enlighten and open some doors they maybe hadn't seen before. And ideally, to create a moment of community where everybody is sharing the same experience, the same idea, the same song. I mean, that's the only reason for me to be up there: we really want that connection to people."
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