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A boy and his family befriend a country fiddler, who teaches the boy all about playing the old tunes, which the boy promises to help keep alive. Inspired by Melvin Wine and Jake Krack.

A very special collaboration between two titans in music: Toumani Diabate, the Grammy-winning Malian kora virtuoso, and the London Symphony Orchestra, renowned worldwide for their performances of orchestral music on record, film and stage. The title translates from the Mandinka language as 'ancestral', a fitting theme for an album that brings together ancient griot melodies and Western orchestral arrangements, resulting in an achingly beautiful and...

City of Gold follows Molly Tuttle's acclaimed 2022 record, Crooked Tree, which won Best Bluegrass Album at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards. This captures the electric energy of band's live shows by highlighting each members' musical strengths.

The set was released in 1952 as 3 separate two-record LP's. He collaborated with Moses Asch to preserve older recordings of classics onto one set of folk music. The 1997 rerelease coincided with a second revival of American roots music, and interestingly enough lightning struck twice. Music critics and older fans welcomed the release of the set on CD, as evidenced by its five-star review in Rolling Stone. The Anthology has been highly influential...

Recorded in Tokyo Mar. 13-15 at Sound Valley Studios and Sept. 15-16 at Somewhere Studios.