2004-03-02
Thousands of ancient melodies and simple lyrics passed over the ocean and found the fertile southern Appalachians. Country dances, long nights sittin around with family and friends and that good old homebrew.Dirk Powell and his wife Christine Balfa play many of the old cajun tunes in their band Balfa Toujour, buth the tunes here are specific to the label "old time". Anyone familiar with The Wheatland Music Festival has heard this sound ringing through the woods there.
Dirk's fiddle recently graced the Cold Mountain original soundtrack and author Charles Frazier provides the liner notes for this release.
AUDREY AULD MEZERA
LOST MEN AND ANGRY GIRLS
JASON ISBELL
Sirens of the Ditch
The Wood Brothers
Live Volume One
SERA CAHOONE
Only As the Day is Long
Rickie Lee Jones
The Sermon on Exposition Boulevard
EILEN JEWELL
Letters from Sinners and Strangers
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