Family Dance
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Performer: Dan ZanesEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued
CD Release Date: 2002-07-30
Music Label: Festival Five Rec.
Soundtracks:
- Jump Up
- Rock Island Line (with the Rocket Ship Revue)
- Malti (With Barbara Brousal)
- The Hokey Pokey (with Father Goose a.k.a. Rankin? Don and the Dandelion Chorus)
- Water For the Elephants (with Donald Saaf)
- Linstead Market (with the Sandy Girls)
- Fooba Wooba John (with Rosanne Cash)
- Wonder Wheel (with the Rocket Ship Revue)
- Yo-Yo Sweet Yo-Yo (with the Rubi Theatre Co.)
- All Around the Kitchen (with Loudon Wainwright III)
- In the Evening (with the Rocket Ship Revue and the Dandelion Chorus)
- Flowers Of Edinburgh
- Thrift Shop (with Sandra Bernhard)
- Skip To My Lou (with Father Goose a.k.a Rankin? Don)
- The Good Night Waltz (with Donald Saaf and Lyris Hung)
Music reviews of Family Dance
Music Review: Family Dance
Rating: 4 Stars
We love this CD. Our 3 month old enjoys being danced around the room to the songs and calms instantly when we put it on in the car! We especially love the song Thrift Shop!
Description of Family Dance
this is the follow up to the acclaimed "rocket ship beach" cd. it's the hip handmade sound of dan zanes and his friends bringing acoustic and electric guitars, fiddles, drums, harmonicas, mandolins, accordions, banjos, tamborines, and voices together for a mixture of traditional and original songs that can be danced to or just listened to depending on the occation. this is 21st century folk music made with the whole family in mind. special guests include Rosanne Cash, Loudon Wainwright lll, The Sandy Girls, Barbara Brousal, Sandra Bernhard, Rankin' Don aka Father Goose, and the Rubi Theatre Company.At a moment when mainstream music is clogged with a surfeit of stale, formulaic songs and huge egos, Dan Zanes has found the Drano. Family Dance, his second kids' record (after the fab Rocket Ship Beach), again comes through with big-name helpers--Sandra Bernhard, Rosanne Cash, and Loudon Wainwright III among them--but instead of assembling a mixed bag of self-important numbers, Zanes, who produced and plays on all but one of 15 tracks, maintains a cohesive vibe that's low-key and playful. Yet here's a disc that's all over the map, genre-wise. Gruffster Rankin' Don, a.k.a. Father Goose, rasta-raps his way through "The Hokey Pokey" and "Skip to My Lou," the Sandy Girls carry us off to a colorful Caribbean village for "Linstead Market," Cash folks up "Fooba Wooba John," and Leadbelly's "Rock Island Line" makes a stop in Memphis bluesland. Zanes's originals--"Jump Up," "Wonder Wheel," and "Thrift Shop," performed as a duet with Bernhard--manage to be wholesome, happy, and hip all at once, no mean feat. But it's the music making on Family Dance that impresses most of all. Fiddles, beatboxes, mandolins, tubas, banjos, and concertina elbow their way onto these tracks, and they're balanced by Zanes's arrangements and backup singer Barbara Brousal's graceful voice and guitar work. Kids 2 and up will be likewise captivated by the chunky board-book packaging, again with original artwork. --Tammy La Gorce
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