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Wayfaring strangers: ladies from the canyon

Label: Numero Group

Format: CD

Genre: Folk

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With the resurgence of interest in folk music it's hardly surprising to see countless compilations showing up week after week, but compilations this moving and this important are rarely chanced upon. This disc puts together the lesser heard folk tracks, songs recorded by artists who weren't sponsored by major label money, artists who simply made music because they were desperate to make music, artists free from poisonous delusions of grandeur. You will likely not have come across one of the fourteen ladies on this disc, but each one has a distinct voice and will have you aching for more - that's the power of this unique compilation. Like last week's sequel to 'Folk is not a Four Letter Word' and the recent Finders Keepers releases, this is music you already love, you just don't know it yet. From heavenly strumming of Linda Rich's 'Sunlight Shadow' to Jennie Pearl's tear inducing piano-led 'Maybe in Another Year' these are tracks which simply make you wonder why you haven't heard them yet. The voices are so distinct and the songs so powerful that at some point you have to think how odd it is that the records haven't had more publicity, but there we have the power of the major label, and when these gorgeous lullabies were pieced together the independent music scene had little or no power at all. These days I'd hope they could upload it all to Myspace and be stars, but we have to thank Numero for finding and repackaging such essential tracks and treating them with the respect they deserve. Absolutely crucial music!

Details
Cat. number: NUM008
Year: 2007
Notes:

Original product description from Numero Group's website: By 1970 the folk revival was all but over. Gone were the days of “Will The Circle Be Unbroken” and “If I Had A Hammer.” Richard Farina was dead. Dylan plugged in. The sound that began in the hills and caught fire on the lower east side of Manhattan was now being reborn in the canyons of California. 
The fruits of folk’s second renaissance are collected here. Wedged beneath the infrastructure of the music business, playing in coffee houses and at church picnics. Deeper than recent crit-revisionist darlings Linda Perhacs, Judee Sill, or Vashti Bunyan, Ladies From The Canyon takes a solid look at folk’s private and obscure underbelly.