Mary Mccaslin - Prairie in the Sky
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Artist: Mary MccaslinEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1995-10-17
Music Label: Philo Records
Soundtracks:
- Pass Me By
- Priscilla Drive
- Ballad Of Weaverville
- Back To Salinas
- Ghost Riders In The Sky
- Last Cannonball
- It's My Time
- Cornerstone Cowboy
- Prairie In The Sky
- Cole Younger
- The Dealers
- My Love
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Music Review: Don't Pass Mary McCaslin By
Rating: 5 Stars
This review has also been used for McCaslin's "Broken Promises" CD.
Okay, okay I have had enough. Recently I received a spate of e-mails from aging 1960's folkies asking why, other than one review of Carolyn Hester's work late in 2008, I have not done more reviews of the female folkies of the 1960's. To balance things out I begin to make amends here. To set the framework for my future reviews I repost the germane part of the Carolyn Hester review:
"Earlier this year I posed a question concerning the fates of a group of talented male folk singers like Tom Rush, Tom Paxton and Jesse Colin Young, who, although some of them are still performing or otherwise still on the musical scene have generally fallen off the radar in today's mainstream musical consciousness, except, of course, the acknowledged "king of the hill", Bob Dylan. I want to pose that same question in this entry concerning the talented female folk performers of the 1960's, except, of course, the "queen of the hill" Joan Baez. I will start out by merely rephrasing the first paragraph from the reviews of those male performers.
"If I were to ask someone, in the year 2008, to name a female folk singer from the 1960's I would assume that if I were to get an answer to that question that the name would be Joan Baez (or, maybe, Judy Collins but you get my point). And that would be a good and appropriate choice. One can endlessly dispute whether or not Baez was (or wanted to be) the female voice of the Generation of '68 but in terms of longevity and productivity she fits the bill as a known quality. However, there were a slew of other female folk singers who tried to find their niche in the folk milieu and who, like Baez, may today still quietly continue to produce work and to perform. The artist under review, Carolyn Hester, certainly had the talent to challenge Baez to be "queen of the hill."
Well, as the CD under review will testify to, the singer /songwriter Mary McCaslin also was in contention, back in the days. I am not familiar with the current status of Ms. McCaslin as a performer although I know several years ago I attended a benefit concert to raise funds for her medical needs. Nevertheless I can remember the first time I heard her in a coffeehouse in Cambridge doing Woody Guthrie's "Oklahoma Hills Back Home". And that was appropriate as Ms. McCaslin is certainly in her singing style and her songwriting interests attached to the Western United States. That tradition got an additional acknowledement in that Cambridge performance when she brought down the house with her version of the country classic "Pass Me By If You're Only Passing Through".
That western theme and, in addition, several more inward searching tracks, make this a very representative McCaslin effort. Needless to say "Pass Me By" sticks out on the first theme and "Prairie In The Sky" on the second. She also does a very fine version of the old Ames Brothers (I think) "Ghost Riders In The Sky". So, all in all, whatever her later personal journey back in the days she could have been a contender for "queen of the hill". Listen up.
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