Of My Native Land   Clothesline Revival

"Original, funky, rootsy, untamed, fun, deep, off-beat, eclectic and with a sense of wonder - all with a tasteful quirkyness, spiced with the things I love in good music. Bravo!"               - Frank Matheis/WKZE CT

"positive proof that everything old is new again" ~ j poet 1 Ramblin' Man       vocal  TOM ARMSTRONG     sample mp3 2 Cow Cow Yicky Yicky Yea      vocal  LEADBELLY 1944    sample mp3 3 Gypsy Laddie      vocals  WENDY ALLEN   sample mp3   4 Wade in the Water        instrumental  FULL MP3 5 My Home Is Not a Home      vocal  TOM ARMSTRONG   sample mp3 6 Bodie      instrumental  sample mp3 7 The One I Love Is Gone      vocals  WENDY ALLEN   sample mp3 8 Little Maggie      vocal  ARIC LEAVITT   sample mp3 9 Story About William Riley Shelton    narration  DOUG WALLIN  10 The Turtledove      vocal  WENDY ALLEN   sample mp3       11 Calling Trains      vocal  TRAIN CALLER 1936   sample mp3 12 Pullin' the Skiff      vocal ORA DELL GRAHAM 1940   FULL MP3   13 My Sweet Love Ain't Around      vocal  TOM ARMSTRONG   sample mp3 14 The Time Has Come     vocal  WENDY ALLEN BUY THIS CD HERE Neo-traditionalists Conrad Praetzel and Robert Powell stake out their claim in the Americana landscape with an eclectic mix of ambient folk and acid/alt country. Clothesline Revival blends electronic and acoustic beats with dobro, mandolin, guitars, lap and pedal steel guitar, ebow, atmospherics and more to create a captivating new sound with an old-time haunting quality. Included are adaptations of historical field recordings (several recorded by the legendary American musicologist John A. Lomax) including performances by Leadbelly, Ora Dell Graham, and an unidentified old train caller. Vocalists Wendy Allen and Tom Armstrong lend their talents to songs by Hank Williams, Bill Monroe, Onie Wheeler, Anne Briggs as well as to traditional American folk songs. Wendy Allen, from North Carolina, is a mesmerizing singer and interpreter of American roots music, while Tom Armstrong's vocals recall classic honky- tonk and country crooners of the fifties like Wynn Stewart and Letfy Frizzel. Clothesline Revival is .... CONRAD PRAETZEL on beats, atmospherics, bass, guitar, dobro and mandolin  and ROBERT POWELL - lap, pedal steel, ebow, bass, baritone and electric guitars with guest musicians: BRANTLEY KEARNS - fiddle  MARK FULLER- drums   BRUCE "CREEPER" KURNOW -harmonica JOHN MURPHY- harmonica    ARIC LEAVIT-banjo   and guest vocalists: WENDY ALLEN TOM ARMSTRONG ARIC LEAVIT   and archival field recording vocals by: LEADBELLY ORA DELL GRAHAM DOUG WALLIN UNIDENTIFIED TRAIN CALLER   Check out Frank Goodman's extensive interviews with principal characters involved in the making of Clothesline Revival's Of My Native Land (click here). Listen to the All Things Considered Review of Of My Native Land (audio)   some quotes about Clothesline Revival's Long Gone .... "In an era where musical appropriation and cross-pollination have become the virtual norm, Praetzel and co. have accomplished something truly unprecedented and wonderful -- and something deeply meaningful to anyone with an appreciation for the American folk tradition."                      - Jesse Ashlock/epitonic.com "...a fresh soulful version of Americana."  - Karen Olson/ Utne Reader "Marrying traditional music from a wide range of sources to maverick musical treatments, loops, beats and samples has produced brilliant offspring." - Frank Goodman/puremusic.com "...dang-near every track rewards repeated listens, old meeting new in strange, exciting ways." - Ned Hammad/ Tower Pulse!  "The album Moby should have made instead of Play..."  - Chris Nickson/Seattle Weekly "...positive proof that everything old is new again."     - j. poet/ Paste Magazine

Leadbelly's source vocal     Ora Dell Graham source vocal