Songs From the Mountain
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Free Music Review: SONGS FROM THE MOUNTAIN
Hit: 5 Stars
A gracious compliment to the book and movie, COLD MOUNTAIN. Especially noteworthy are HARD TIMES and ANGEL BAND,but I loved the entire CD.Free Music Review: Lovely music
Hit: 5 Stars
This is achingly beautiful. The music lingers in your mind and soul long after the sounds are still.Free Music Review: BACK TO OUR MOTHER THE MOUNTAIN
Hit: 4 Stars
Since my youth I have had an ear for roots music, whether I was conscious of that fact or not. The original of that interest first centered on the blues, then early rock and roll and later, with the folk revival of the early 1960's, folk music. I have often wondered about the source of this interest. I am, and have always been a city boy, and an Eastern city boy at that. Nevertheless, over time I have come to appreciate many more forms of roots music than in my youth. The subject of the following review is an example.
This is music that was performed, and meant to be performed for a live audience on Saturday night after a week's hard work, or early in the morning looking out over the mountain at nature's handiwork, or at any time to evoke the loneliness of the mountains and the hardness of life. And the music brings to life all those sentiments. Certainly this is music to entertain in a time before radio.
A note on subject matter- The bulk of the songs concern home, hearth lovesickness and religion as might be expected from mountain people. And that is okay. The following is something on the order of a discalimer I feel a need to mention. This reviewer, although not a religious man, can appreciate the simple, fundamentalist but very personal religion evoked here. Not to romanticize the simple rural folk of the past but I do not believe that the religious sentiments expressed here are the same as those of religious fundamentalists today.
Free Music Review: Music from the past for a modern audience
Hit: 4 Stars
This is a great introduction to traditional music for a modern audience. The tunes are well chosen and performed. The first cut grabs you and your're hooked for the rest of the CD. This is not Bluegrass or country, it is American roots music from which both of the afore mentioned came. If your musical tastes lean in this direction, check it out ... you will not be disappointed.Free Music Review: Somewhat disappointing
Hit: 2 Stars
I may have been spoiled witht the excellent recordings on the "Return to Cold Mountain" soundtrack (which shares some of the songs with this CD), but the quality of the playing on this CD just seems rather poor to me. I think better musicians can achieve a better result of these often nice tunes, which unfortunately are not that well played.