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fave it Traditional Folk | Gentle
12 tracks | 40 minutes
Released Oct 2005
on Mustard's Retreat
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:55 Afternoon on Ripley Lake lyrics BUY MP3 02:55 Afternoon on Ripley Lake lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:55 Afternoon on Ripley Lake
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:48 Dance of the 13th Moon lyrics BUY MP3 02:48 Dance of the 13th Moon lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:48 Dance of the 13th Moon
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:56 Something That You Said lyrics BUY MP3 03:56 Something That You Said lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:56 Something That You Said
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:12 Dragonfly lyrics BUY MP3 03:12 Dragonfly lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:12 Dragonfly
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:11 Only Love Knows lyrics BUY MP3 04:11 Only Love Knows lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:11 Only Love Knows
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:53 Marching Thru Cairo lyrics BUY MP3 03:53 Marching Thru Cairo lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:53 Marching Thru Cairo
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:41 I'd Rather Be Lonely lyrics BUY MP3 02:41 I'd Rather Be Lonely lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:41 I'd Rather Be Lonely
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:24 Lilacs In Your Hair lyrics BUY MP3 03:24 Lilacs In Your Hair lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:24 Lilacs In Your Hair
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:00 Spinning Round lyrics BUY MP3 04:00 Spinning Round lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:00 Spinning Round
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:52 Ditty lyrics BUY MP3 02:52 Ditty lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:52 Ditty
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:19 The Night Goes On Forever lyrics BUY MP3 03:19 The Night Goes On Forever lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:19 The Night Goes On Forever
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:08 Brigid's Dance lyrics BUY MP3 03:08 Brigid's Dance lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:08 Brigid's Dance
Traditional folk ballads, slice-of-life songs, twisted character tunes, and children's stories. Incredible instrumentation and lyrics from the legendary Michigan songwriting duo.
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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