Mike Seeger - Southern Banjo Sounds
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Artist: Mike SeegerEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1998-09-15
Music Label: Smithsonian Folkways
Soundtracks:
- Soon in the Morning Babe
- Josh Thomas's Roustabout
- Jim Crack Corn
- Darling Cora
- Devil's Dream
- Little Birdie
- Around the World
- Whoopin' Up Cattle
- Flop Eared Mule
- Lost Gander
- Sailor and the Soldier
- American Spanish Fandango
- Got No Silver Nor Gold Blues
- We're Up Against It Now
- That's What the Old Bachelor's Made Out Of
- Last of Callahan
- Lady Gay
- Down South Blues
- Last Night When My Willie Come Home
- Wabash Blues
- Bright Sunny South
- Roll on John
- Needlecase
- Come My Little Pink
- Battle in the Horseshoe
- I'm Head Over Heels in Love
Music reviews of Southern Banjo Sounds
Music Review: "For sickness and death I intend to prepare"
Rating: 5 Stars
One great musician, many banjos. Think of this as a Tone Poems or Tone Poems III: The Sounds of the Great Slide & Resophonic Instruments with banjos and vocals, had Mike ever made a Tone Poems.
Sadly, last night I heard Mike Seeger died on 8/7/09. From my favorite version of Jim Crack Corn whose banjer tone and loping, buoyant pace has always felt like it should be on Minstrel Banjo Style, to the wicked, creepy beauty of the vocals/lyrics and the tone Mike pulls from the 2-drone banjo on Whoopin' Up Cattle, this is the real deal. Whoopin' Up Cattle is based on the Old Chisholm Trail on Deep River of Song: Black Texicans - Balladeers And Songsters Of The Texas Frontier.
Notes To Wandering Deadheads and Garcia/Grisman Fans: In Little Birdie you'll hear a lyrical strain that made its way into Box of Rain. Bright Sunny South is not Sweet Sunny South. Where Sweet Sunny South is a Stephen Foster-type of minstrelsy lyric with an African-American reminiscing about how good the South had been to her/him, Bright Sunny South comes from a boy about to be a Confederate soldier, telling us and his family why he has to fight. The only times I've ever felt any sympathy for the Confederate Cause I've been listening to this beautiful, haunting song and performance. Such is the power of music. Such was the power of Mike Seeger.
As I said before, this album is banjo and vocals. Yes we have everything from gourd and frame banjos to Dock Boggs' 1928 Gibson Mastertone, but don't forget the vocals. This Lady Gay has always overflowed with tragic beauty but man it hurts even more in this last day now that Mike just died.
After getting this, you can compare/contrast Mike's Wabash Blues with the one he mentions in the liner-notes which was later released on In Sacred Trust: The 1963 Fleming Brown Tapes, another essential disc.
Battle in the Horseshoe is partially in a Chinquapin Pie vein and very much has one of those definitive mountain tune types of feelings.
What else is there to say? Mike was no imitator. No collector and regurgitator of style. He never made music for museums, though he was as potent as the best history books you'll ever read. I'll always thank him for his endless curiosity, determination and ability to make everything his own.
Description of Southern Banjo Sounds
Dock Boggs recorded only 12 songs in the 1920s, but his raw, powerful singing and distinctive banjo-playing caused Harry Smith to include him in his Anthology of American Folk Music (SFW 40090) and Mike Seeger to search for him in the hills of Kentucky in 1963. A new series of recording sessions captured the 50 blues, instrumentals, regional and religious songs included in this two-CD set. Originally released to high acclaim on three Folkways Records LPs in the 1960s, they have influenced musicians ever since. Extensive notes by Mike Seeger and Barry O'Connell.Banjo players are destined to fall in love with this 26-track CD study of picking in its many patterns. Folklorist and virtuoso Seeger draws on an array of traditional tunes to demonstrate the old-time styles of Roscoe Holcomb, Dock Boggs, Uncle Dave Macon, and other mountain maestros as well as the newfangled (well, we're talking the '40s) Earl Scruggs approach. Seeger's astute and generous liner notes, meanwhile, explain what you're hearing on the CD. But Southern Banjo Sounds, despite its rather stolid name and packaging, is as ebullient as it is erudite. Ultimately, you needn't have mastered clawhammer technique (or even know what it is) to enjoy Seeger's work. --Steven Stolder
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