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 This recording belongs in every home, December 24, 2008 |
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At 75 years old, Mike is still alive and kicking very hard as the most outstanding player, historian, and analyst of Southeastern traditional music Black and white in America. He's unique in that as he likes to say, he was never very good at "book learning" and with the exception of a few out of print music instruction books and his brilliant "Talking Feet" book and film which should be in every home, most of his writing has come in liner notes, or talks at performances or where old time music savants gather. However, he has created a body of work in his 60 years of performances and in the many living traditional singers and musicians he has recorded and promoted, and in the recordings he has done with the New Lost City Ramblers, the Strange Creek Singers, and with other old time musicians like Alice Foster (now Gerard) and Paul Brown.
This album is apparently a successor to his magnificent Southern Banjo record that catalog traditional Black and white Southern banjo playing magnificently coming like this set does with an instructional DVD. Even more than on the Banjo Sounds set, Mike covers a broad selection of different old time guitar sounds, both African American and European American and much mixed. Old time guitar comes from many places. Some of it comes from the polite usually sentimental parlor guitar styles that were a big part of 19th Century genteel life and the chief center of guitar playing until the early 20th Century when inexpensive factory made guitars with steel strings first became available by mail order throughout the rural South. The emergence of the steel guitars came at a time that a revolution in music was going on, Ragtime and the Blues and the beginnings of Jazz were stirring. The old fiddle repertoire was being changed by the addition of banjos to what had often been solo fiddles. People were trying to make music that combined the old traditions with the new sounds and people moving to the guitar were using techniques that they had used on the banjo as well as making new music no banjo had ever played. Spanish Fandango on this CD was one of the signature pieces of the standard parlor and performance guitar styles of the 19th and early 20th Century. If you bought a book on how to play guitar in 1890, it might have had the Spanish Fandango as the last piece showign you really could play. It was so popular with Southern white and Black guitarists, that the open G tuning which it is done in is still known by many as the "Spanish Tuning." On the other hand, the John Henry on this album is exactly the kind of slide D Sebastopol Tuning (named for the "Seige of Sebastopol" written by the same author as the Spanish Fandango and also a parlor guitar specialty) that Black guitarists especially in Virginia and North Carolina aspired to play when the guitar and the blues swept in in the 1910s and 1920s. One of my favorites here is the reproduction of Frank Hutcheson's magnificent "Worried Blues," a slide guitar. There is much else here. Now, I first met Mike at the Banjo collectors gathering where he would frequently bring a rare old banjo played by an historic banjoist like Dock Boggs or Josh Thomas. On this CD he delves into his own collection and those of friends and collaborators to present an array of historic guitars whose description in the well written notes open the door to the history of guitars in the US. This recording belongs in every home |
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Beautiful!, July 24, 2008 |
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Excellent, as always. Mike is a stellar performer and has been instrumental (although quietly) in collecting important music that might otherwise be lost. He has never received the credit that is his due.
Also, Pete Seeger is still alive and well, and Mike is his brother, not his son. |
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great project from a national treasure, February 10, 2008 |
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First off, a couple corrections to mike knox's Dec. 3 review below - Mike Seeger is the half-brother (NOT the son) of the "late" Pete Seeger, who as of this writing is still very much alive and still performing occasionally.
That said, Mike Seeger has given us another wonderful collection of historic American music, just as he did on "Southern Banjo Sounds" and so many other recordings. Anyone with an interest in old-time music, or folk music, or traditional music, or whatever you want to call it, should add this CD to their collection. |
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rootsy, December 3, 2007 |
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Nice southern roots guitar music! Mike, son of the late, great Pete Seeger plays some tasty southern roots tunes on various historic guitars. He seems to have quite a collection of vintage songs as well as guitars. The 33 page booklet that comes with the CD is quite informative. You get an interesting history of the guitar and its music from the first half of the 20th century in the southern US. Musicologists & historians will enjoy this one. This is nice, relaxing acoustic folk & country music, mostly guitar, with one banjo number. Mike shares detailed information about each song and which instrument he uses. There are some old favorites here (Wildwood Flower, Old Chisholm Trail and John Henry), as well as a few new (to me) songs, all played in a style that takes you back in time. A very enjoyable respite to the frenetic pace we now subject ourselves to. |
 not impressed, November 29, 2007 |
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sorry we werent impressed by your impressing upon us that if we liked allison krause we would like this |
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