True Vine

Mike Seeger - True Vine

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Artist: Mike Seeger
Brand: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Edition: Music CD
Format: CD
CD Release Date: 2003-05-20
Model: SFW40136
Music Label: Smithsonian Folkways
Soundtracks:
  1. Breaking Up Ice In The Allegheny
  2. Coo Coo Bird
  3. Johnson Jinkson
  4. Little Rabbit, Where's Your Mammy?
  5. The Raftsman's Song
  6. Honeycutt's Holler
  7. Did you Ever See The Devil, Uncle Joe?
  8. Blow The Horn, Blow
  9. Old Man
  10. Spoonful
  11. Shouting In Jerusalem
  12. When Sorrows Encompass Me Round
  13. Calico
  14. Early In The Spring
  15. Freight Train
  16. Goodbye, My Little Darling
  17. Don't Let Your Deal Go Down
  18. I'm Gonna Go Huntin' For The Buffalo
  19. Grandad Jim's Waltz
  20. The Golden Willow Tree
  21. California Cotillion
  22. Young Johnnie
  23. Sail Away Ladies

Music reviews of True Vine

Music Review: Simple Greatness
Rating: 5 Stars

Mike Seeger is a great man. He's also a modest, almost quiet spoken man. I was lucky enough to buy this CD directly from him.

All along the nearly 50 years he has been playing, recording, training, inspiring, collecting, writing, and gathering people around this music, he's had a simple dedication to the real people who created this music, to white and Black working people of the South and places therabouts. Mike has used the term, home made music, front porch music, back porch music to describe the music he heard and later captured with his tape recorder in teh 1950s and early 60s. That is what this is, though the person making it at home is a master.


This is music made at home and that has what he has always tried to capture in his field recordings, in the collections he put out, in his work with the New Lost City Ramblers and the Strange Creek Singers, but above all on his solo albums. Sometimes his choice and variety of instruments leads us to renditions that are not as much of a performance as we become sadly used to even on old time music cds, but an iteration of the song being played in the old traditions as it might have been in somebody's living room or front porch 50 60 70 years ago.


Indeed some of the renditions here like "Did You Ever See the Devil Uncle Joe" done on the Jews Harp or Sail Away done with autoharp contrast with versions Mike recorded decades ago with the NLCR gives us a more personal, more home made sound than even the string band music.


Once of the more interesting things on the album are the Coo Coo Bird, Spoonful, and Shout in Jerusalem, where Mike shows his growing interest in African American banjo styles as well as his ability to bring gourd banjo playing to life.

Vonnegut once wrote about how television eliminated the recognition of the fellow in the neighborhood who could whistle or do a card trick, or could sing a few old country songs as someone who got listened to, celebrated, and taken around. This album is a celebration of when that person is an old time musician with a guitar, a fiddle, an autoharp, a quill, a banjo or a jews harp.
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Description of True Vine

Mountain music legend Ralph Stanley said of six-time Grammy nominee Mike Seeger, "He's got his own style. He's an old-timer, and he does his style just fine." From the fertile ground of American folk music, through the roots of field recordings, vintage discs, and personal encounters with traditional artists, Seeger's creative spirit finds flower again on this solo album. True Vine reflects his connection to deep musical roots and represents the latest blossoming of his life-long exploration of diverse traditional musical styles.

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