Various I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces 2cd

2cd + book
2011/192x
new
Record collectors often say the joy is in the chase rather than the acquisition, but Steve Roden knows well, it'd be more accurate to say it's in the cracks between them both. And to find his own stripe of Harry Smith alchemy, Roden turns his magnifying glass, not so much upon the exotic, but upon the once ordinary. Windy voices billow & reach for the moon with slow-paced falsettos, Eddie Lang's peerless guitar twinkles, and people think a hot Saturday night means doing imitations of crickets and geese. Why not interact with the world by means of intermediary objects, which like any good set of lenses, make the view a little sweeter? Vintage photography of people with musical instruments, quotes from old books with old fashioned worldviews, and the nectarous appeal of 78s older than time. Tracklisting: HMV Weather Effects-Wind, John Jacob Niles-John Henry, Anonymous-Untitled, Reverend Edward Clayborn-Then We'll Need That True Religion, Ernest Thompson-In the Baggage Coach Ahead, Emery Glen-Blue Blazes Blues, Gennett Sound Effects-Walking On Ice, Clara Smith-Kind Lovin Blues, Nick Lucas-If You Hadn't Gone Away, Anonymous-Beautiful Mansions of Gold, Eva Parker-I Seen My Pretty Papa Standing On a Hill, Pale K Lua-The Rosary, Gennett Sound Effects-Mocking Bird, Bradley Kincaid-Froggie Went a Courtin, Sylvester Weaver-Damfino Stump, Seger Ellis-Montana Call, Alfred G Karnes-When They Ring the Golden Bells, Anonymous-Mandolin, Anonymous-The Stranger, Ex Governor Alf Taylor's Old Limber Quartet-Brother Noah Built an Ark, Eddie Lang-A Little Love A Little Kiss, Standard Radio Sound Effect-Canadian Geese, Roy Smeck-Reaching for the Moon, Roland Hayes-I Want to Go Home, Obed Pickard of Station WSM Nashville TN-The Old Grey Horse, Gennett Sound Effects-Walking In Snow and Thin Underbrush, Kelly Harrell-Rovin Gambler, Sara Martin & Sylvester Weaver-I've Got To Go and Leave My Daddy Behind, Frank Ferera's Hawaiians-Pinin Hawaii For You, Gabriel Brown & his Guitar-Going My Way, Gennett Sound Effects-Rainfall and Thunder, Lew Childre-It Don't Do Nothing But Rain, Bertha Idaho-Graveyard Love, Frank Luther-Pretty Polly, Gennett Sound Effects-Canary Birds Several Hundred, Roland Hayes-Xango, Dick Reinhert-The Girl I Left Behind Me, Rev Calbert & Sister Billie Holstein-Yes I Know, Chubby Parker-Bib a Lollie Boo, thurlow Lieurance & Clement Barone-Winnebago Love Song, Clara Smith-My Good for Nuthin Man, Sol Hoopii-Stack O Lee Blues, Ukulele Ike-Losing You, Marc Williams-William and Mary, Anonymous-Way Down Home, Gennett Sound Effects-Night Noises, Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers with Riley Puckett-Ya Gotta Quit Kickin My Dog Aroun, Stovepipe No 1-Cripple Creek & Sourwood Mountain, Goebel Reeves-Cowboy's Prayer, Bill Kearney & Earl Bush-Precious Memories, Carl T Sprague-O Bury Me Not on the Lone Prarie.