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Track Listings
| 1. I Am The Big Easy - Ray Bonneville |
| 2. Things That You Know - The Wailin' Jennys |
| 3. Cold + Dark + Wet - Greg Brown |
| 4. Hideaway Girl - Jimmy LaFave |
| 5. Ready - Meg Hutchinson |
| 6. Flames of Love - Lynn Miles |
| 7. It's Home Everywhere I Go - Cliff Eberhardt |
| 8. When You Sing - John Gorka |
| 9. Over The Hills - Lucy Kaplansky |
| 10. Blazing Out of Sight - Storyhill |
| 11. Let's Go - The Pines |
| 12. Borderline - Eliza Gilkyson |
| 13. Late Breaking News - Jorma Kaukonen |
| 14. It Takes Love To Make A Home - Guy Davis |
| 15. Baghdad Blues - Peter Ostroushko |
| 16. Old Dogs - Bill Staines |
| 17. Together All Alone - Robin & Linda Williams |
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Austin Chronicle
Red House Records keeps the flame when it comes to contemporary acoustic music.
Product Description
"Red House Records is one of those rare beings in the recording industry that quite simply makes the artist feel at home. We have the freedom to record the music we want. I was thrilled to sign with them, and I'm happy to stay with them." - JORMA KAUKONEN, Red House artist, founding member of Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna.
World-renowned indy label Red House Records is where new roots artists meet the legends to create and record music with rare freedom and integrity. OUR SIDE OF TOWN - A RED HOUSE RECORDS 25th ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION celebrates the silver anniversary with over an hour of incredible music.
This special budget release is a great way to get to know the talented current artist roster of Red House.
A perfect snapshot of the label in it's 25th year, OUR SIDE OF TOWN includes songwriting legends Greg Brown and Bill Staines, hot pickers Jorma Kaukonen, Peter Ostroushko, and Robin & Linda Williams, soulful vocalists Jimmy LaFave, Lucy Kaplansky, and Cliff Eberhardt, gritty bluesmen Guy Davis and Ray Bonneville, poetic storytellers Eliza Gilkyson, John Gorka and Lynn Miles, sweet harmony singers The Wailin' Jennys and Storyhill, and young artists just emerging on the national scene: The Pines and Meg Hutchinson. The songs were handpicked by the Red House staff and represent the many colors and sounds of today's ever-evolving music scene.
Winner of many awards and honors - Grammy, Emmy, Juno, Folk Alliance, Parent's Choice, Indie Awards - Red House Records has released over 200 albums and is home to some of today's top folk, blues and Americana acts - actual artists and musicians who write songs, play instruments and perform in front of audiences.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
My how the time does fly. Twenty-five years gives this iconic indie-folk label a lot of great material to pick from, and they make the most of it with plenty of catchy tunes from Greg Brown, Cliff Eberhardt, Eliza Gilkyson, Lucy Kaplansky, Lynn Miles, The Wailin' Jennys and others... A nice, strong sampler from one of the most vigorous, intelligent labels of the modern folk scene. Definitely worth checking out! (DJ Joe Sixpack, Slipcue Guide To Hick Music)
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I'll avoid making a song by song review -- the simple point is -- if you like listening to "Americana" singer-songwriter kinds of music; if you're a fan of that natural, from-the-heart delivery of artists on "The World Cafe" (NPR); if you like your music honest. . . you MUST get this collection!
You'll thank me later.
You'll thank me later.
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I have, except as the occasion called for it as in the case of Sun Records or Chess Records, not spent much time discussing the various ups and downs of particular record labels and their attempts to corner a piece of the music market. There is certainly history there, sometimes very interesting history as in the cases of those labels mentioned above, but I leave that for others to toil over. I prefer to concentrate on various musical influences that flow through the folk world, except that here one can not avoid, or should not avoid, paying some respect to the Red House Record label that has been a mainstay of post 1960s folk revival folk music and artists.
Frankly, I know Red House mainly as the long time vehicle for one of the artists performing on this anniversary CD, Greg Brown. And also for a few late efforts by Rosalie Sorrels, especially her tribute to Utah Phillips last year. Of course, those two names tell you much about what this label is about and about the musical traditions of not just the past 25 years of folk and folk rock but the last half century.
This label has also been the launching pad for some lesser known names like Jimmy LaFave, Lucy Kaplansky, Eliza Gilkyson, and the Wailin' Jenny's. What you have here, my friends, are tributes by the performers who have struggled, and sometimes struggled in lonely spots, to keep the folk genre part of the great American songbook. So match up the performers and the label and you have quite a piece of history and a primer of the latter-day folk scene. Listen up.
Frankly, I know Red House mainly as the long time vehicle for one of the artists performing on this anniversary CD, Greg Brown. And also for a few late efforts by Rosalie Sorrels, especially her tribute to Utah Phillips last year. Of course, those two names tell you much about what this label is about and about the musical traditions of not just the past 25 years of folk and folk rock but the last half century.
This label has also been the launching pad for some lesser known names like Jimmy LaFave, Lucy Kaplansky, Eliza Gilkyson, and the Wailin' Jenny's. What you have here, my friends, are tributes by the performers who have struggled, and sometimes struggled in lonely spots, to keep the folk genre part of the great American songbook. So match up the performers and the label and you have quite a piece of history and a primer of the latter-day folk scene. Listen up.
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