Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site rochester.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!rochester!lee From: lee@rochester.UUCP (Lee Moore) Newsgroups: net.music.folk Subject: (relatively) new releases Message-ID: <4645@rochester.UUCP> Date: Wed, 12-Dec-84 16:19:11 EST Article-I.D.: rocheste.4645 Posted: Wed Dec 12 16:19:11 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 14-Dec-84 05:34:58 EST Distribution: net Organization: U. of Rochester, CS Dept. Lines: 53 Below are some of the good folk releases that we have gotten in the last six months or so. (we = WRUR-FM, the University of Rochester student station) John Stanfield/12 String Moonrise/June Appal Records A really fine album of hot guitar playing and reasonable singing. Every song on this live album is good. Tony Rice/Cold on the Shoulder/Rounder Records A return to more traditional music for this guy. The music shows he hasn't lost his touch, either. John Fahey/Let Go/Varrick Records His usual spaced out self. Still very good. Wanamaker Lewis Trio/""/Punch Drunk Slick covers of popular folk songs mark this (debut?) album. The liner notes are incredibly pretentious. Dillon Bustin/Almanac/June Appal A great record with lots of help from the folk crowd in Bloomington, Ind. Modern sounding without being commercial. Recommended. Tony Trishka & Skyline/Stranded in the Moonlight/Flying Fish Also a great record by this mutated bluegrass band. Some jazzy touches. Also recommended. Riders in the Sky/Live/Rounder These guys are incredibly funny!!! I have never seen them live but I will definitly go out of my way to do so in the future. Sweet Honey in the Rock/We All... Everyone/Flying Fish Acapella gospel-like songs about social issues. They are not the tightest group I have heard but they do project an exciting sound. Ladysmith Black Mambazo/?/Flying Fish(?) (my memory is going...) Zulus doing their traditional (acapella) songs. I don't know much about Zulu music but I really like this album. Some of the sound is somewhat similar to early American black music. Foday Musa Suso/?/Flying Fish(?) This guy is a leading figure in combining western sounds into traditional African music. He takes a more acoustical stance than does such African pop artists as King Sunny Ade. (One song mentions all the ministers in the Gambian govt.!) -- Internet: lee@rochester.arpa UUCP: {decvax, allegra, seismo, cmcl2}!rochester!lee Phone: [USA] (716) 275-7747, -5671 Physical: 43 01' 40'' N, 77 37' 49'' W