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The Mississippi River of Song: A Musical Journey Down the Mississippi
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Artist
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Chippewa Nation, Soul Asylum, John Hartford, the Bottle Rockets, James Cotton, Little Milton, Boundless Love Quartet & others.
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Label
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Smithsonian Folkways
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Format
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2 cutout CDs
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Runtime/Release Date
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63'30,66'48/1998
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Label Number
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40086
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Daedalus Item Code
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17281
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This item is not available.
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Description
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Listening to this awesome set you just know that these people make music because it's their lifeblood. They're the real deal. It's part of the largest multimedia project in the history of the Smithsonian, with book, radio, website, and TV documentary aspects as well. As the Washington Post pointed out, it is sequenced "to create the illusion that the listener is actually traveling the full length of the river, north to south, with ample time to stop in neighboring cities and towns to sample music as varied as the terrain that nurtured it." Among the tracks we're wild about are Eddie Bo's scatfest "Check Your Bucket," Sonny Burgess's "T for Texas" (Blue Yodel #1), Levon Helms and James Cotton's "Going Back to Memphis," Little Milton's "Grits Ain't Groceries" and David and Roselyn's "Marie Lavaux." "The only record of this (and probably any) year that combines Chippewa chants, punk rock, jazz, and bluegrass in one neat two-disc set. Sounds like: What you'd hear if you picked up every hitchhiking musician along the Big Muddy from Minnesota to Louisiana."—Esquire "Just about everything you need to know about the everlasting spirit of riverlife can be heard in 'La Porte d'en Arrière' ('The Back Door'), D.L. Menard's Cajun remake of Hank Williams' 'Honky Tonk Blues' … recorded live during a crawfish boil in Menard's backyard in Erath, La. 'The Back Door' basks in a wide-open spirit that is found all along the Mississippi River…. Free-flowing food for the soul."—Chicago Sun-Times The folk music archives that form the wellspring of these Smithsonian recordings are truly incomparable. Encompassing a wide variety of styles, they reflect the heart, soul, and backbone of the American experience as well as indigenous music from around the world. Folkways' impeccable sound and documentation does these artists proud, setting their work off as the treasure it is.
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