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Story That Crow Told Me 1

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The Story the Crow Told Me (both vols. 1 & 2) take you back in time with classic recordings (and little known gems) from the best rural performers of the time: Bradley Kincaid, The Prairie Ramblers, Reily Puckett, and more. This series does a good job cleaning up the old 78s and provides a nice album of children's and novelty songs of the 20s and 30s. Fine Record.

"The Story That The Crow Told Me" is sung by the Carolina Buddies in the middle of this collection of Early American Rural Children's Songs all of which have been rescued from original recordings from the 1920s and 1930s. This album represents Americana at its finest. Before you even get to the actual songs you just have to fall in love with the names of the performers: Fisher Hendley & His Aristocratic Pigs, Ridgel's Fountain Citians, Virginia Mountain Boomers, Fruit Jar Guzzlers, and the Utica Institute Jubilee Singers (not to mention Cousin Emmy). Just do not confuse the Three Georgia Crackers with the Dixie Crackers.

The only song I really recognized on this album was "Skip To Ma Lou, My Darling," although there are bits and pieces of others that sound a mite familiar. But if you are not humming and trying to repeat the chorus of "King Kong Kitchie Kitchie Ki-me-o" by the time you are finished listening to this collection, then I, as a fellah once said, don't know Arkansaw! You might be surprised at the language, since they allow people to sing about a cow's udders in another way but refrain from rhyming tell, well and dell with a certain nether region mentioned in Scripture.

Producer Richard Nevins explain that some of these ultra-rare recordings were more noise than music before remastering began, and while they have cleaned up the recordings as much as possible, these are still going to sound like old 78s, which is perfectly acceptable. These songs have the ring of authenticity just the way then If you enjoyed the music on the "O Brother, Where Art Thous?" soundtrack, then this collection will be right up your alley. Teachers covering rural life in this country between the two World Wars might find it instructive to play a couple of choice cuts from this album to give students a taste of what it was like for kids in another time and place.

I ordered both this and vol.2 at the same time, based on the titles of the songs and the clips. Volume one is absolutely great, with not a single clunker. Volume two lags a bit toward the end, but is still a worthwhile purchase. It is unfortunate that there isn't any biographical info (which would have been preferable to a brief bit of printed lyrics on selected songs)on the various artists whose work appears here, but it is wonderful that this rare and exciting music is being preserved. I didn't intend to spend a whole afternoon listening to both discs, but I couldn't resist. Highly infectious music/lyrics.

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