Michael Fiday - Same Rivers Difference - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Guy Clark has been writing songs for over four decades. This album captures his best songs and the stories behind them including new versions of classics like InchThe Cape,Inch InchRandall KnifeInch, InchLA FreewayInch, InchThe CoatInch, and InchStuff That WorksInch. Inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Foundation's Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2004, Clark was honored with the Americana Music Association's Lifetime Achievement Award for Songwriting in 2005.

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One might be tempted to think that there is no crossover in music that hasn't been done yet; and thankfully, one would be mistaken. DEEP RIVER presents a vibrant selection of 21 African American spirituals, interpreted by countertenor Michael Walker II and Old Music consort Alchymy Viols.A curious collaboration? Not at all, according to director Philip Spray. The viol consort's historical purpose was to arrange popular tunes of it's day; so it appeared only logical to try this setup on America's first folk songs. It worked. Additional harmonies are provided by a distinctly anachronistic grand harp, and counterpoint by a small field pump organ. The effect is stunning a music so utterly, distinctly American, one wonders why this hasn't been done before.