Golden Shoals - Golden Shoals - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Laurel Premo's latest solo work presents original and traditional music voiced on finger-style electric guitar and lap steel. Perhaps by it's most honest classification Inchroots guitar,Inch the sonic vocabulary of 'Golden Loam' is informed by guitar's antecedents in American traditions - fiddle and banjo, the rhythms, melody and intonation therein, as well as that music's relationship to movement. Glowing, droning, tugging, scraping, revolving, Premo bears renewed electric dirt, the golden loam layered by centuries of folk. Following 'The Iron Trios' (2019), Premo's sophomore builds on the dark roots world she arranged, with seeking, untethered delivery and a masterful use of space, on a dynamic wave of warm, gritty sustain. Laurel's vocals on two pieces InchHop HighInch and InchI Am A PilgrimInch are traditional calls beaconing the guitar's response, and fold in timberly like additional instrumental lines sustaining the drone. 'Golden Loam' was self produced and recorded during the pandemic lockdown of summer/fall 2020. The majority of the record is solo performance, but two featured collaborators are woven in to this embodied rhythmic collection. Percussive dancer Nic Gareiss (Michigan) appears on tracks 5 & 9, and bones player Eric Breton (Quebec) on track 3. Laurel Premo is a Michigan-based artist who has been writing, arranging music and touring since 2009 with vocal and instrumental roots acts. She is internationally known from her duo Red Tail Ring. Album Tracks 1. Calloway 2. On My Way to See Nancy 3. Jericho 4. Torbjørn Bjellands Bruremarsj 5. Hop High 6. Jake's Got the Bellyache 7. I Am a Pilgrim 8. Ma's Maw 9. Poor Little Mary Sitting in the Corner 10. Father Made of River Mud

This collection was compiled out of just about every folk hit to reach Billboards Top 100 during a time in which folk music was regarded as a form of light entertainment and not the means of political and personal expression that it has become. This 28 track compilation features folk hits such as InchWalk Right InInch by the Rooftop Singers, InchIf I Had a HammerInch by Peter Paul and Mary, InchGreenback DollarInch by the Kingston Trio, InchLizzie BordenInch by the Chad Mitchell Trio and more. Album Tracks 1. Walk Right in - the Rooftop Singers 2. If I Had a Hammer - Peter, Paul & Mary 3. Where Have All the Flowers Gone - the Kingston Trio 4. Green Green - the New Christy Minstrels 5. It Ain't Me Babe - Johnny Cash 6. Michael - the Highwaymen 7. We Shall Overcome - Joan Baez 8. Greenback Dollar - the Kingston Trio 9. A Stranger in Your Town - the Shacklefords 10. Winkin', Blinkin' and Nod' - Simon Sisters 11. Ballad of the Alamo - Bud & Travis 12. Tom Dooley - the Kingston Trio 13. A Dollar Down - the Limeliters 14. Greenfields - the Brothers Four 15. Silver Threads and Golden Needles - the Springfields 16. We'll Sing in the Sunshine - Gale Garnett 17. Hootenanny - the Glencoves 18. Don't Let the Rain Come Down - the Serendipity Singers 19. Reverend Mr. Black - the Kingston Trio 20. Please Don't Sell My Daddy No More Wine - the Greenwoods 21. Lizzie Borden - the Chad Mitchell Trio 22. Ode to a Little Brown Shack - Billy Edd Wheeler 23. Cottonfields - the Highwaymen 24. There's a Meetin' Here Tonite - Joe & Eddie 25. Tom Cat - the Rooftop Singers 26. Summer's Come and Gone - the Brandywine Singers 27. Little Boxes - Pete Seeger 28. The Unicorn - the Irish Rovers

In 2011, an eponymous, self-recorded EP led to touring, and before long The Lumineers started attracting devout fans. They're drawn by songs like InchHo HeyInch and InchStubborn Love,Inch Americana-inflected barn burners in the vein of the Avett Brothers and Mumford & Sons. The roots revival of the last few years has primed listeners for a new generation of rustic, heart-on-the-sleeve music. The Lumineers walk that line with an unerring gift for timeless melodies and soul-stirring lyrics. Album Tracks 1. Flowers in Your Hair 2. Classy Girls 3. Submarines 4. Dead Sea 5. Ho Hey 6. Slow It Down 7. Stubborn Love 8. Big Parade 9. Charlie Boy 10. Flapper Girl 11. Morning Song