old-time country songs
I have been carrying these songs with me for as long as I can remember. My mother sang some of them and some I learned some from my grandfather. They were simply in the air, on the radio, on records. Many are associated with the original Carter Family. What they all have in common is that they were recorded in New York for Moe Asch by Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston and Sonny Terry in 1944. On April 19 Woody and Cisco recorded fifty-six songs and ballads. The following day they recorded seventeen more and on April 24, now joined by Sonny Terry, fifty more songs were recorded. These are the versions which have stuck in my head since discovering the recording in the 1970s. The songs tell the story of what it means to be human: love, loss, longing, betrayal, bereavement, belief, good times, tough times and of course death.
Kat Baloun – harmonica, washboard and vocals
Gerd Seffner – guitar
John Shreve – vocals
Heiner Thomas - banjo
Güno Van Leyen – mandolin
Stefanie Zill – vocals
Listen / Hörproben
At My Window
John Shreve - vocal
Stefanie Zill - vocal
Gern Seffner - guitar
Güno van Leyen - mandolin
From Baltimore to Washington
John Shreve - vocal
Gern Seffner - guitar
Kat Baloun - harmonica
Columbus Stockade Blues
John Shreve - vocal
Heiner Thomas - banjo
Ezekiel Saw the Wheel
John Shreve - vocal
Stefanie Zill - vocal
Gern Seffner - guitar
Bury Me Beneath the Willow
Hey Lolly Lolly Low
John Shreve - vocal
Gern Seffner - guitar
Kat Baloun - vocals, harmonica
Poor Boy
John Shreve - vocal
Gerd Seffner - guitar
Crawdad Song
John Shreve - vocal
Gern Seffner - guitar
Güno van Leyen - mandolin
Kat Baloun - harmonica, washboard
Lonesome Day
John Shreve - vocal
Stefanie Zill - vocal
Gern Seffner - guitar
Güno van Leyen - mandolin
What Did the Deep Sea Say?
John Shreve - vocal
Gern Seffner - guitar
Kat Baloun - harmonica
Stepstone
John Shreve - vocal
Stefanie Zill - vocal
Gern Seffner - guitar
Güno van Leyen - mandolin
Kat Baloun - harmonica
Little Black Train
John Shreve - vocal
Gerd Seffner - guitar
Foggy Mountain Top
John Shreve - vocal
Stefanie Zill - vocal
Güno van Leyen - mandolins
More Pretty Gals than One/Who’s Gonna Shoe My Pretty Little Feet?
John Shreve - vocal
Stefanie Zill - vocal
Gern Seffner - guitar
Güno van Leyen - mandolin
Black Jack Davy
John Shreve - vocal
Heiner Thomas - banjo
Will You Miss Me?
John Shreve - vocal
Stefanie Zill - vocal
Gern Seffner - guitar
Güno van Leyen - mandolin
All songs traditional
Kat Baloun – harmonica, washboard and vocals
Gerd Seffner – guitar
John Shreve – vocals
Heiner Thomas - banjo
Güno Van Leyen – mandolin
Stefanie Zill – vocals
Recordings engineers: Gerd Seffner (in Schmerwitz)
Mixed by Axel Rosenbauer at Hot Milk Studios.
Produced by John Shreve
This CD is dedicated to my friend Heiner Thomas.
