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Race the River Jordan by Mark Simos
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fave it Traditional Folk | Bluegrass
13 tracks | 55 minutes
Released Feb 2001
on Yodel-Ay-Hee
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:36 Sail Away Ladies/Sail Back Home Again lyrics BUY MP3 04:36 Sail Away Ladies/Sail Back Home Again lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:36 Sail Away Ladies/Sail Back Home Again
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:12 Scotty lyrics BUY MP3 03:12 Scotty lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:12 Scotty
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:12 The Word in Edgewise lyrics BUY MP3 03:12 The Word in Edgewise lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:12 The Word in Edgewise
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:54 Pony Boy lyrics BUY MP3 03:54 Pony Boy lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:54 Pony Boy
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:44 Woody of the Lake/Neithammer Honeymoon lyrics BUY MP3 04:44 Woody of the Lake/Neithammer Honeymoon lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:44 Woody of the Lake/Neithammer Honeymoon
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 06:11 Armin's Socks/ Sliding Up the Bannister/ Common Cold lyrics BUY MP3 06:11 Armin's Socks/ Sliding Up the Bannister/ Common Cold lyrics "GIFT MP3" 06:11 Armin's Socks/ Sliding Up the Bannister/ Common Cold
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:04 Buckeye lyrics BUY MP3 02:04 Buckeye lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:04 Buckeye
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:40 Mandolin Boomerang lyrics BUY MP3 04:40 Mandolin Boomerang lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:40 Mandolin Boomerang
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:47 Race the River Jordan lyrics BUY MP3 04:47 Race the River Jordan lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:47 Race the River Jordan
A collection of interesting original tunes that are performed in a good, hard-driving way and played both in and with the structure of traditional Southern fiddle music. A coherent suite of tunes, cinematically evoking varied moods and places.
Bio / Background
Mark Simos is a songwriter, tunesmith and composer, dance fiddler, and guitar and piano accompanist, who weaves a lifetime's love of many traditions-Irish, Southern old-time, New England, Quebeçois, bluegrass, and Klezmer among others-into innovative musical forms.
Mark's original songs have been recorded by such respected artists as Alison Krauss & Union Station, Laurie Lewis and Tom Rozum, Kate Brislin and Jody Stecher, the Del McCoury Band, Peter McLaughlin, Ranch Romance and Freyda Epstein.
Mark Simos calls his instrumental creations "tradiginal orishinal" music. That seems a sufficiently straightforward description of the crooked fiddle tunes what we receive on his fabulous CD "Race the River Jordan." Except for the opening "Sail Away Ladies," the album consists of 20 years worth of original compositions that most of the time glisten with the genuine spirit of traditional string-band music.
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