These songs are pre-war and modern blues, primitive jazz, music from the southern mountains, and folk songs produced with acoustic guitar, mandolin, fiddle, harmonica, dobro, flugelhorn, bass and vocal harmonies. There are electric guitar and drums on one. Mercy for the Dispossessed and Painted Pony are instrumentals.
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The Songs...
Lyrics for songs marked with *asterisks* can be found
at Selected Song Lyrics
- I've Endured (Ola Belle Reed, David Reed)
- *Mercy for the Dispossessed (G. Bartley, instru.)
(A note for guitar players about this piece)*
- *Long Way Down to Harlan (G. Bartley)*
- *Everything's 4 Sale G. Bartley)*
- God Bless the Child (Billie Holiday & Art Herzog, Jr.)
- *Came Home Last Night with One Sock on
( G. Bartley)*
- Midnight Hour Blues (Leroy Carr)
- *Painted Pony (G. Bartley, instru.)
(A note for guitar players about this piece)*
- High on a Mountaintop (Ola Belle Reed, Alex Campbell)
- How Can I Keep From Singing (trad.)
- Litany for January 15 (Chip Quinn)
- *The Past is Dead and Gone (G. Bartley)*
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The Players
Geoff; vocals, acoustic, resonator & high-string guitars, electric bass guitar, electric upright bass, resonator mandolin, harmonica, kick drum (machine)
Howie Tarnower; mandolin (I've Endured)
Michael Bean; dobro (I've Endured)
Kimber Ludiker (I've Endured, Long Way Down to Harlan)
Lauck Benson;banjo (Long Way down to Harlan)
Johnnie Blue Horn Moriconi; flugelhorn (Everything's 4 Sale)
Phil Antoniades; drums (Everything's 4 Sale)
Richard "Rosy" Rosenblatt; harmonica (God Bless the Child)
Recorded & mixed at Grant-Me-A-Reprieve Studio, Framingham, MA except God Bless the Child recorded & mixed by Richard "Rosy" Rosenblatt, Newton, MA and drums on Everything's 4 Sale recorded by Phil Antoniades and Barbara Kessler, Hopkinton, MA.
Mastered by Toby Mountain at
Northeastern Digital, Southboro, MA. Mastering assistance by Brad Meyer, Point One Audio, Inc., Lincoln, MA
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