Footwork

Knut Reiersrud | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 15, 1994)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Shanachie
• ASIN: B000008NBA
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #553,821 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Trampin'

2. You Ought to Treat a Stranger Right

3. No Problem

4. Baby Please Don't Go/Tobakobe

5. Jarabe (Don't Leave Your Love)

6. Feet

7. Wrestling Theme

8. Bantari Fulado (Tradition of the Fulas)

9. Lamin

10. Let Your Light Shine

11. Tenko Met (Sit and Be Quiet)

12. Fjording

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Oh my god, this is such a good album., January 16, 2010

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Kurt Keefner "Happy to be Alive" (Outside Washington, DC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Footwork (Audio CD)

What do you get if you put a Norwegian guitar genius, an American gospel group and some African singers and musicians together on one CD? A mess, right? Not this time. This album explores the nexus between the blues, gospel and the African music that spawned both, all with a little of Norway thrown in. It works. For example, it's got the best version of "Baby, Please Don't Go" I've ever heard, merging Europe, America and Africa.

The Five Blind Boys only show up on a couple of tracks, but they are good. Mostly it's Knut and the Africans. But the opening track has nothing to do with Africa: it's an improvisation based on a Norwegian folk song. It starts with aome amazing guitar work and then a mighty organ descends upon the proceedings and elevates the whole thing.

If you like world music even a little bit, you absolutely cannot go wrong with this disc.