Seven Sisters: A Kentucky Portrait

Crooked Jades

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 15, 2002)
• Original Release Date: 2001
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Copper Creek
• ASIN: B00005TSNE
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #342,467 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Put My Little Shoes Away

2. Miner's Child

3. I Wish I Was a Single Girl Again

4. Pearl Bryan (Intro) [Instrumental]

5. Cumberland Gap

6. Letter Edged in Black [Instrumental]

7. Little Bessie

8. Miner's Child [Instrumental]

9. Hard for to Love

10. She Lied to Me

11. Young Edward

12. Letter Edged in Black

13. Put My Little Shoes Away [Instrumental]

14. Moonshiner

15. Wayfaring Stranger [Instrumental]

16. Jenny Get Around

17. Wayfaring Stranger

18. Mystery Train

19. Pretty Polly [Instrumental]

20. Pearl Bryan (Outro)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great update of old-timey mountain music, August 22, 2002

By	Joe Sixpack -- Slipcue.com (...in Middle America) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)

This SF Bay Area ensemble ably straddles the worlds of old-time stringband music and the more thoughtful end of the modern-day alt.country spectrum. Their performances and various albums are impressive both for their melodic grace and depth of historical knowledge. The "Seven Sisters" album, which is the soundtrack to a documentary film about the women in a Kentucky family, concentrates on more exclusively on the style's Appalachian roots, while "The Unfortunate Rake," produced by well-known twangcore mopemeister Richard Buckner, has a more modern air, and drifts into hick-music-as-high-art territory which I find mildly questionable. Overall, though, these are two of the most compelling and impressive albums I've heard in a long, long time. The band's repertoire and soulful delivery are equally noteworthy. Highly recommended!