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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
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Posted: Wed Dec 12 16:19:11 1984
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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.!)

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