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Bright Morning Star
"Bright Morning Star" is a traditional Appalachian spiritual, the earliest recording of which dates back to 1937. It has been sung by numerous folk artists, but was popularized in the folk revivals of the 1960s and 70s, particularly by The Young Tradition. The song was first collected by Alan and Elizabeth Lomax in Harlan County, Kentucky in 1937 as sung by G. D. Vowell, under the title "Bright Moving Stars are Rising". The origin of the song, however, predates the audio recording. A textual reference for the song exists in Edward Billups's 1854 book ''The Sweet Songster'', a Baptist hymnal from Kentucky. "Bright Morning Stars" appears in Ruth Crawford Seeger's ''American Folk Songs for Christmas''. She credits it to the Archive of American Folksong at the Library of Congress, with the identifier "1379 A1." Recordings The song has been recorded by The Pennywhistlers on their 1965 album, ''A Cool Day and Crooked Corn''; by The Young Tradition, live, included on the 1970 compi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bright Morning Stars
''Bright Morning Stars'' is the fourth full-length album from Canadian folk trio The Wailin' Jennys The Wailin' Jennys are a Canadian music group. They have released several albums and received two Juno Awards. The group has been featured several times on the American Public Media program ''A Prairie Home Companion'' and their album ''Fire .... The title track is a traditional Appalachian spiritual. Track listings References 2011 albums The Wailin' Jennys albums Festival Distribution albums Red House Records albums {{2010s-folk-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cara Dillon
Cara Elizabeth Dillon (born 21 July 1975, in Dungiven, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland) is a Northern Irish folk singer. In 1995, she joined the folk supergroup Equation and signed a record deal with Warners Music Group. After leaving the group, she collaborated with Sam Lakeman under the name Polar Star. In 2001, she released her first solo album, ''Cara Dillon'', which featured traditional songs and two original Dillon/Lakeman compositions. The album was an unexpected hit in the folk world, with Dillon receiving four nominations at the 2002 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. Dillon's second album, '' Sweet Liberty'' (2003), entered the Irish album charts and UK Indie album charts. In 2004, Dillon received the Meteor Irish Music Award for Best Irish Female. Her third album, '' After the Morning'', was released in 2006. The album's opening track “ Never in a Million Years” gained Radio 2 Airplay, while other tracks featured the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and Paul Brady. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bonny Light Horseman (album)
''Bonny Light Horseman'' is the debut album by American folk supergroup Bonny Light Horseman, released on January 24, 2020. Recording began at the site of the defunct Rundfunk der DDR and concluded in January 2019 at Dreamland Recording Studios near Woodstock, New York. Upon release, the album was met with mostly positive reviews, and debuted at 92 on ''Billboard'''s Top Album Sales chart. The album's title track reprises a Napoleonic Wars-era English lament. Eric D. Johnson joined singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell and multi-instrumentalist Josh Kaufman to form Bonny Light Horseman after learning they were reworking folk songs. Mitchell had previously researched Greek mythology for her Broadway musical Hadestown and solo album of the same name. Before recording the album, the group made their live debut at the 2018 edition of Eaux Claires music festival. Festival founders Aaron Dessner (guitar) and Justin Vernon (vocals) feature on ''Bonny Light Horseman'' and distributed the alb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bonny Light Horseman (band)
Bonny Light Horseman is an American folk band consisting of Anaïs Mitchell, Eric D. Johnson (Fruit Bats, The Shins), and Josh Kaufman ( The National, Hiss Golden Messenger, Josh Ritter). They released their debut eponymous album in January 2020. Their second album, ''Rolling Golden Holy'', came out in October 2022. Background The band first came together at the Eaux Claires festival in 2018 when invited by the festival's co-founders Justin Vernon (of Bon Iver) and Aaron Dessner (of The National). From the early sessions for this performance, the trio decided to form the band in a more official capacity. Their self-titled debut album was released on January 25, 2020. The album contains a mixture of traditional British folk songs and original material. It was subsequently nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Folk Album. In 2021 the band was inter alia part of the Newport Folk Festival in July. They also received the Libera Awards ''Best Americana Record'' 2021 for their sel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magic Ship
''Magic Ship'' is the second studio album by American folk trio Mountain Man A mountain man is an explorer who lives in the wilderness. Mountain men were most common in the North American Rocky Mountains from about 1810 through to the 1880s (with a peak population in the early 1840s). They were instrumental in opening up .... It was released on September 21, 2018 under Bella Union in Europe and Nonesuch Records worldwide. Critical reception ''Magic Ship'' was met with "generally favorable" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 73, based on 8 reviews. Aggregator Album of the Year gave the release a 75 out of 100 based on a critical consensus of 6 reviews. James Christopher Monger from AllMusic explained: "Magic Ship delivers a listening experience that's akin to eavesdropping. So unadorned are these largely a cappella songs, both on the prod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mountain Man (band)
Mountain Man is an American singing trio of women described as "nestled in the tradition of American folk" with a traditional Appalachian folk sound. They have earned acclaim from a number of music critics. They often sing a cappella, with a "sparse, haunting, hymnal beauty" sometimes accompanied by soft acoustic guitar, but with their voices "virtually unadorned", according to ''Guardian'' critic Paul Lester. The group toured with the vocalist Feist in 2011, and ''New York Times'' music reviewer Ben Ratliff described their performance as "creating shifting harmonies" which "worked perfectly". History The three members of the group are Molly Erin Sarle, Alexandra Sauser-Monnig and Amelia Randall Meath. They met as students at Bennington College in Vermont and began singing seriously together in 2009. (They were invited back to Bennington a decade later in 2019 to be the commencement speakers.)Two come from "singing families" and one got experience singing in a church choir. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wider Circles
''Wider Circles'' is the fifth studio album by American Appalachian band Rising Appalachia. It was recorded at Echo Mountain Recording in Asheville, North Carolina, and was released on July 17, 2015. Background Leah Song coined the term "Slow Music Movement" while preparing for a TedX talk. During their ''Wider Circles'' Rail Tour, the band travelled by Amtrak train. Song connected this with the "Slow Music Movement", which she described as exploring the question as to how music can be a public service, saying: Critical reception Amy Lieberman, who reviewed ''Wider Circles'' for ''NYS Music'', wrote "Seamlessly covering the entire spectrum of musical genres, ranging from traditional music of the American South highlighting the banjo and fiddle, to world music featuring African drums, there’s something on this album for everyone to enjoy." Desdemona Dallas, reviewing for ''Lost in Sound'', noted that "Songs 'Medicine' and 'Oh Death' light upon the Smith sisters’ wordsmithing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rising Appalachia
Rising Appalachia is an American Appalachian folk music group led by multi-instrumentalist sisters Leah Song and Chloe Smith. Leah also performs as a solo artist. Based between Atlanta, New Orleans, and the Asheville area of North Carolina, the sisters work with an array of international musicians and the band incorporates everything from simple harmonics with banjos and fiddles, to a wide variety of drums, kalimbas, beatbox, djembe, balafon, congas, didgeridoo, tablas, spoons and washboard creating a full mix of world, folk and soul music. Rising Appalachia is independent from the mainstream music industry. The sisters managed, produced and marketed the project themselves from the beginning and only later started to build up a small management team. Their first four albums were self-produced and self-funded. For their fifth album, ''Filthy Dirty South'', they raised in a span of one month a total of $11,180.00 in 2011 on the crowd funding web site ''Kickstarter''. Rising App ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Thousand Hearts
''A Thousands Hearts'' is the fifth solo album by Irish folk singer Cara Dillon. It was the second release on her own label Charcoal Records and was released in partnership with Sony Music. ''A Thousand Hearts'' features more traditional production and arrangements than her first three albums. The album contains traditional songs (including two sung in Irish Gaelic) as well as two modern covers, "Shotgun Down the Avalanche" by Shawn Colvin and "River Run". The album was produced by Sam Lakeman Samuel Charles Lakeman (born 6 November 1975) is an English musician, songwriter, and producer and co-owner of Charcoal Records. Lakeman was brought up in the village of Buckland Monachorum, near Yelverton, Devon, United Kingdom, with his bro ..., Dillon's musical partner and husband. "Shotgun Down the Avalanche" and "Bright Morning Star" were recorded for the Transatlantic Sessions 6 in 2013.''Transatlantic Sessions 6'' (DVD). pp. (Inside cover, DVD booklet). Both tracks were also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Appalachian Music
Appalachian music is the music of the region of Appalachia in the Eastern United States. Traditional Appalachian music is derived from various influences, including the ballads, hymns and fiddle music of the British Isles (particularly Scotland), the African music and blues of early African Americans, and to a lesser extent the music of Continental Europe. First recorded in the 1920s, Appalachian musicians were a key influence on the early development of old-time music, country music, bluegrass, and rock n' roll, and were an important part of the American folk music revival of the 1960s. Instruments typically used to perform Appalachian music include the banjo, American fiddle, fretted dulcimer, and later the guitar.Ted Olson,Music," ''Encyclopedia of Appalachia'', 2006. Retrieved: 28 January 2015. Early recorded Appalachian musicians include Fiddlin' John Carson, G. B. Grayson & Henry Whitter, Bascom Lamar Lunsford, the Carter Family, Clarence Ashley, and Dock ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Young Tradition
The Young Tradition were an English folk group of the 1960s, formed by Peter Bellamy, Royston Wood and Heather Wood. They recorded three albums of mainly traditional British folk music, sung in arrangements for their three unaccompanied voices. Biography The Young Tradition was formed on 18 April 1965 by Peter Bellamy (8 September 1944, Bournemouth, Dorset – 19 September 1991), Royston Wood (1935 – 8 April 1990) and Heather Wood (born Arielle Heather Wood, 31 March 1945, Attercliffe, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England) (who was unrelated to Royston Wood). Most of their repertoire was traditional British folk music, sung without instrumental accompaniment, and was drawn especially from the music of the Copper Family from Sussex, who had a strong oral musical tradition. They augmented the pure folk music with some composed songs which were strongly rooted in the English folk tradition, such as sea shanties written by Cyril Tawney, of which "Chicken on a Raft" was the most ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wailin' Jennys
The Wailin' Jennys are a Canadian music group. They have released several albums and received two Juno Awards. The group has been featured several times on the American Public Media program ''A Prairie Home Companion'' and their album ''Firecracker'' peaked at number two on the ''Billboard'' Bluegrass charts, in 2006. Their album ''Bright Morning Stars'' peaked at number one on the ''Billboard'' Bluegrass charts, in 2011, and '' Fifteen'' peaked at number one on the ''Billboard'' Bluegrass charts, in 2017. History The group was founded in 2002, when a Winnipeg guitar shop called Sled Dog Music brought Ruth Moody, Nicky Mehta and Cara Luft together for a joint performance. The show was well received and the owner, John Sharples, scheduled a follow-up performance and suggested they "go on tour and call themselves the Wailin' Jennys." [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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