"This band of some of
the best and most eclectic roots musicians has put their group chemistry
onto a fine and fun recording. While it sounds like a tradutional
bluegrass album, Old As Dirt brings in so many other American
roots elements that it keeps offering not just surprises at every
turn of phrase, but also insight into what constitutes American music."
Larry Kelp, KPFA Radio,
Berkeley, California
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preview tracks now!
Bring Back My Blue
Eyed Boy 3,650kB FULL TRACK!! (A. P. Carter, APRS, BMI)
Our version comes from the singing of the Lilly Brothers, who used
a slightly different tune than the 1929 Carter Family recording.
Poor Ellen Smith
1,192kB (traditional, arr. by Bluegrass Intentions, Fifth Child Music,
BMI) Peter Degraff wrote this song in 1863, after being convicted
of Ellen Smith's murder. He claimed to be an innocent man, but our
version is more like the William Burroughs story: a tale about getting
loaded and playing with guns.
Jack of Diamonds
1,423kB (traditional, arr. by Bluegrass Intentions, Fifth Child Music,
BMI) Phillip Glass goes country. We appropriated the cockeyed melody
from the playing of Wayne Perry, recorded by Alan Lomax in Crowley,
Louisiana, 1934. The words come from "Swami" Tommy Jarrell.
A Lazy Farmer Boy
1,392kB (or The Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn) 2:42 (traditional,
arr. by Bluegrass Intentions, Fifth Child Music, BMI) A droll (or
drawl) song from Buster Carter & Preston Young's 1931 recording; Harry
Smith included it on his famous anthology.
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Suzy Thompson -- lead
and harmony vocals, fiddle
Alan Senauke -- lead
and harmony vocals, guitar (mandolin on "Jack of Diamonds")
Bill Evans -- harmony
vocals, banjo
Eric Thompson -- lead
vocal on "a lazy farmer boy" / mandolin (guitar
on "Jack Of Diamonds")
Larry Cohea -- bass
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