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PostPosted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 9:52 pm 
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anyone heard this? opinions? it looks good (and from the short audio clips on amazon, it sounds good)...but it's 'spensive, so i want to hear some obpinions first before i throw down....

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Disc: 1
1. Old Dog Blue - David Johansen
2. Prison Cell Blues - Steve Earle
3. James Alley Blues - Wilco
4. Frankie - Beth Orton
5. Last Fair Deal Gone Down - Beck
6. Sugar Baby - Kate & Anna McGarrigle
7. The Butcher's Boy - Elvis Costello
8. Way Down The Old Plank Road - David Thomas
9. The Coo Coo Bird - Richard Thompson with Eliza Carthy
10. My Baby Done Left Me - Ed Sanders
11. John The Revelator - Nick Cave
12. Oh Death Where Is Thy Sting? - Eric Mingus with Gary Lucas
13. Dry Bones - Roswell Rudd with Sonic Youth
14. No Depression In Heaven - Garth & Maud Hudson
15. K.C. Moan - Geoff Muldaur
16. When That Great Ship Went Down - Gavin Friday with Maurice Seezer
Disc: 2
1. A Lazy Farmer Boy - Robin Holcomb
2. Sail Away Lady - Van Dyke Parks with Mondrian String Quartet
3. Poor Boy Blues - Geoff Muldaur
4. Spike Driver Blues - Marianne Faithfull
5. See That My Grave Is Kept Clean - Lou Reed
6. Ommie Wise Part 1 & 2 (What Lewis Did Last...) - Kate & Anna McGarrigle
7. Fatal Flower Garden - Gavin Friday
8. I Wish I Was A Mole In The Ground - Bob Neuwirth with Eliza Carthy
9. Fishing Blues - David Thomas
10. He Got Better Things For You - Mary Margaret O'Hara Listen Listen
11. Harry Goes A Courtin' (The Mowo! Live Hootenanny Throw-Down) - Mocean
12. The House Carpenter - Robin Holcomb & Todd Rundgren
13. This Song Of Love - Don Byron, Percy Heath & Bill Frisell
14. Shine On Me - Nick Cave
15. James Alley Blues - David Johansen
16. Single Girl Married Girl - Petra Haden

also comes with a live DVD

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PostPosted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 11:50 pm 
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Whoa!

What is it? Kind of a tribute album version to the original set?


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PostPosted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 12:08 am 
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what label put it out?

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That has got to be a Hal Willner production--half of those people are also on the Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, & Chanteys collection:

Kate McGarrigle
David Thomas
Richard Thompson
Eliza Carthy
Nick Cave
Gavin Friday with Maurice Seezer
Robin Holcomb
Van Dyke Parks
Lou Reed
Bob Neuwirth
Mary Margaret O'Hara
Mocean Worker
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 8:45 am 
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The life and work of musicologist Harry Smith will be saluted on the four-disc boxed set "The Harry Smith Project: Anthology of American Folk Music Revisited," due Oct. 24 via Shout! Factory. The two-CD/two-DVD collection is drawn from concerts staged by Hal Willner in London, Brooklyn and Los Angeles and also features a new documentary on Smith's enduring influence. Highlights of the CDs include performances by Beck, Wilco, Steve Earle, Richard Thompson, Beth Orton, Lou Reed, Nick Cave and David Johansen. Another look at the tribute concerts is offered on one of the DVDs, which rounds up 26 selections from such artists as Elvis Costello, Philip Glass, Kate and Anna McGarrigle and the Folksmen, the fictional band portrayed by "Spinal Tap" principals Michael McKean, Harry Shearer and Christopher Guest. Released in 1952 as a six-LP set, Smith's "Anthology of American Folk Music" introduced listeners to iconic artists such as Mississippi John Hurt, Robert Johnson, the Carter Family and Blind Lemon Jefferson. Smith was also a filmmaker and a painter; three of his short films are included here as a DVD bonus feature.


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PostPosted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 10:29 am 
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I'd like to hear this. They say in the new Esquire that's the best Wilco song in years.

someone (ahem, Timis?) find this

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PostPosted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 10:32 am 
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I used to have a live version of (I think) Jeff Tweedy & Roger McGuinn playing "James Alley Blues". What a kickass song.

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I've got this set uploaded right now. If anyone wants to hear it, pm me.

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