Holly Ding

Tom Brad & Alice | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 13, 2000)
• Original Release Date: June 5, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Copper Creek
• ASIN: B00004TKQO
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #647,812 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Collectively they have been referred to as “three powerful musicians,” “masters of southern traditional music,” “triple threat,” “sublime combination,” “soulful, highly skilled musicians,” and “as well known as the Three Tenors are in the opera world.” Individually, Tom Sauber, Brad Leftwich, and Alice Gerrard are each recognized and respected as powerful musicians whose influence has been felt on a generation of younger musicians, and whose effect on the wider world of traditional music and culture has been far reaching.

Like their well-received debut of last year, “Holly Ding” is a masterful collection of rural music from a broad array of sources including old-time string band pieces, classic country a la Hank Williams, traditional gospel, ballads, and even an original by Alice. With all three musicians being adept on a variety of instruments, a great diversity of musical combinations abounds. Everything from straight guitar, banjo, and fiddle playing to twin fiddles, twin banjos, to unaccompanied ballads with no music at all can be found here. It is a rich tapestry of the best that rural music has to offer.

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars Old-timey music at its best, January 27, 2003

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This review is from: Holly Ding (Audio CD)

That's Tom Sauber, Brad Leftwich and Alice Gerrard, as venerable a group of old-timey revivalists as you're ever likely to hear. This is the trio's second album (I still haven't tracked down the first), and it's a nice, gangly set of oddly-arranged proto-bluegrass tunes, arranged and performed in a style that takes the music back to its unruly back-woods roots, when song measures and lyrics veered about with wild unpredictability. This album starts out with an unusual version of a familiar folk tune ("The Cuckoo"), forcing you right off the bat to meet these guys on their own terms. But once you settle in on their wavelength, it's a really fun little record. Recommended!