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Track Listings
| 1. Mud Acres | |||
| 2. Pretty Boy Floyd | |||
| 3. Bluegrass Boy | |||
| 4. Old Time Music | |||
| 5. My Love Is But A Lassie Yet | |||
| 6. Darlin' Corey Is Gone | |||
| 7. Barbed Wire | |||
| 8. Killing the Blues | |||
| 9. Gone Girl | |||
| 10. Cold Front | |||
| 11. Mason Dixon's On the Line | |||
| 12. Carolina In My Mind | |||
| 13. The First Waltz | |||
| 14. Panhandle Rag | |||
| 15. Long Journey | |||
| 16. Ocracoke Time | |||
| 17. Sleep With One Eye Open | |||
| 18. Warm Rain | |||
| 19. Pretty Lucky | |||
| 20. Sally Ann | |||
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CD Description
Good-time music from a circle of musicians based in the Woodstock area in the '70s and early '80s, taken from four Rounder albums. Quite a circle, too, encompassing Happy and Artie Traum, John Herald, Bill Keith, Jim Rooney, Maria Muldaur, Paul Seibel, John Sebastian, Paul Butterfield, and others.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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A motley crew of beat/hippie/musician types had a tradition of assembling at a place known as 'Mud Acres' in the Woodstock mountains, to get out the banjos, guitars and fiddles, and "get back where we used to be". It's part of a folk renaissance in America that's an ongoing underground phenomenon, and has been rumbling gently on for at least 50 or more years.
What's so good about this album is that it collects some of the best (though sadly not all) from a very innocent and positive group of recordings made by people like Artie and Happy Traum, John Sebastian, Pat Alger, Paul Butterfield, Jim Rooney, Roly Salley, Rory Block, and Maria Muldaur and many more. Culled from four albums on Rounder Records('Mud Acres: Music Among Friends', 'Woodstock Mountains: More Music From Mud Acres', 'Pretty Lucky' by The Woodstock Mountains Review and 'Woodstock Mountains Review: Back To mud Acres'), the recordings cover the period from 1972-81.
Aptly described by Happy Traum (what a great name!) as a party in front of a microphone, the music has a great upbeat vibe, without losing the melancholy edge that folky/bluegrass material has. Bookended by two short instrumentals, the opener 'Mud Acres' (a banjo duet) and closer 'Amazing Grace' (a very moving harmonica duet), there's a very wide ranging and eclectic bunch of country/bluegrass influenced songs to delight you. From the twanging banjo instrumentalism of 'My Love Is But A Lassie Yet' to the haunting beauty of semi-protest/semi-love song 'Barbed Wire', through the campfire melancholy of 'Killing The Blues' to the gentle jazz inflected humour of 'Cold Front'.
The track that really chokes me up every time I hear it is the heavenly 'Long Journey', a lament that would make angels made of stone cry it's so profoundly moving. Rory Block and Lee Berg's harmonies and the simple guitar accompaniment couldn't be better had God himself played the tune.
It's the kind of music that contemporaries The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band were also exploring with their 'Will The Circle Be Unbroken' project, and the sort of thing revived by the Coen brothers with their movie 'Oh Brother Where Art Thou' and it's musical spin-off 'Down From The Mountain'.
For more jazz in yr Bluegrass (instrumental mandolin lead stuff too, no less!), check out the peerless Dave Grisman's 'Hot Dawg' too...
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4.8 out of 5 stars
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Among the very best!
6 Dec 2000
By Orin P. Domenico
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Format:Audio CD
This CD is a compilation from the three Woodstock Mountain Revue Lp's that came out in the late 60's and early 70's. The Revue were "folk" musicians who lived in and around Woodstock, NY including Happy and Artie Traum, John Herald, Eric Anderson, John Sebastian, Paul Butterfield, Pat Alger, and many others. The original lp's spent so much time on our turntable that we would spontaneously start singing the next song as each song ended. We knew every word of every song. This is elemental Americana of near quality to the music that Dylan and the Band were making in a nearby basement a couple of years earlier. The material which includes wonderful originals as well as covers of Woody Guthrie, Hank Williams, and Jimmy Rodgers (among others)is uniformly excellent. These folks obviously enjoy playing together. The music has a joyous spontaneity and yet is oddly polished. Great stuff, that deserves a much larger audience. Buy it; you won't regret it.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
I love this CD
7 Mar 2007
By v
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Format:Audio CD
I never thought I was a folk/country type music fan but I guess I am because I love this CD. This CD pulls songs from I believe at least 3 other recordings done by various artists who were all at one time affiliated with the Woodstock Mountain Revue which was comprised of a core group in addition to everchanging guest type artists up in Woodstock NY in the early 70's through late 70's - early 80's. The songs are written and sung by different band members, so you are always hearing different voices, all of them very talented and most have gone on to very successful careers after Woodstock Mountains. For example the bass player is Roly Salley who is the long time bass player with Chris Isaak & Silvertone. He also has his own indie CD out "Killing The Blues" which is excellent. Pat Alger went on to write many hit songs for other artists, and the Traum Brothers continue to make music, and the list goes on. This is a very enjoyable CD that I think many people will enjoy and find themselves singing along to in the car,"Pretty Lucky", "Ocracoke Time" and "Mason Dixon's on the Line" come to mind.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Good Music
11 Jun 2000
By "rokkets"
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Format:Audio CD
These songs in this CD are very confortable. If you want to get relax, it would be better for you to listen to (or hear) them. I think this CD is the supreme for folk-music.
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