Roger McGuinn - 22 Timeless Tracks From The Folk Den Project
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Artist: Roger McGuinnEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2008-05-01
Music Label: April First Productions
Soundtracks:
- Wanderin
- Follow the Drinking Gourd
- Oh Freedom
- Railroad Bill
- Cane Blues
- Coffee Grows on Wild Oak Trees
- Waltzing Maltida
- Ezekiel Saw A Wheel
- Mighty Day
- Down By The Riverside
- The Colorado Trail
- So Early In The Spring
- Lilly of The West
- Stewball
- St. James Infirmary
- Drunken Sailor
- Silver Dagger
- Wild Mountain Thyme
- James Alley Blues
- The Cruel War
- The John B s Sails
- The Boll Weevil
Free Music Notes for 22 Timeless Tracks From The Folk Den Project
Free Music Review: The Persistence of (McGuinn's) Memory
Hit: 5 Stars
The fourth release on McGuinn's own record label is perhaps the prettiest of the lot, an eco-friendly Oasis Digipak densely illustrated in warm colors. As stylish and attractive as it might be, it's ironic that the cover of 22 Timeless Tracks has a Dalí-inspired melting watch on it: Dalí, with his high detail and dense symbolism, is one of the last artists I'd link with Roger McGuinn. If McGuinn were a painter, he'd be not Dalí but Picasso, who loved primitive art and complained that artists before him had forgotten how to simplify.
You can hear that in the quintessential McGuinn guitar solo (such as in "The Cruel War"), which is the song's melody played plainly on his Rickenbacker 12-string. Imagine Picasso, in stages, reducing a bull to a few thin black lines.
Or listen to McGuinn (daringly) take on "Waltzing Matilda". We often hear it played fancily with a new jazz chord every bar or two; McGuinn distills it to a handful of tritone chords, and, as befits a national anthem, respectfully renders it undanceable.
But he's no primitive. He reminds us how he can paint images with sound, creating wheels within wheels in "Ezekiel Saw a Wheel". He doesn't mind showing off a little, making a $32 guitar sparkle in "Railroad Bill". McGuinn's idea of the folk process goes beyond telling a new story: "Wild Mountain Thyme", which he turned into a rock ballad in the `60s, is a bouncy reggae tune here.
Every track but one was previously released on the magnificent 100-song Folk Den Project 1995-2005. The new one is a friendly Barry McGuire and McGuinn duet on "The Boll Weevil". It's one reason why you want 22 Timeless Tracks even if you already own the big package.
You might want it also because these songs never sounded so good. Perhaps the result of a different mastering process, the new CD has a richer sound to my ear than the earlier collection.
Finally, 22 Timeless Tracks has the appeal of being a cream-of-the-crop selection, hand picked by the man himself. This is what sounds good to McGuinn. Who am I to argue? Sounds good to me, too.
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