[dar-list] dar-list Digest, Vol 10, Issue 8

[Janicefitz at aol.com]

Hey kids,
 
I went to see Al Petteway and Amy White last night and was surprised when he 
chose to sing a song that he told had been recorded by John Gorka and Dar 
Williams on a project cd from 2005.  The cd is a compilation of old songs sung by 
contemporary artists, named Heritage.
 
I don't remember hearing a word of this on this list and thought I'd pass it 
on to the rest of you in case I wasn't the only one.

 
 
 
Product Description
Heritage is a unique concept album, which explores the expanse of American 
Roots music. These folk tunes, which run the gamut from Appalachian gospel to 
African-American chants to "heart songs" and fiddle tunes from every part of 
this country, all have the distinction of being crucial to the cultural 
development of this nation, and still musically relevant: they're so strong as purely 
musical entities that they can take just about any kind of setting and not lose 
their meaning and identity. From distilled reportage to pure musical flight, 
these songs speak directly to matters of deep immediacy and relevance: Love, 
poverty, despair, joy, death, after-death. Nobody wrote them; Everybody wrote 
them. Listening to them is experiencing cultural geology. 
 



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