| Product Summary | | Label: PROPER AMERICAN/RA | | UPC: 00852007001135 | | Release Date: 11/6/2007 | | Buy.com Sku: 206009357 | | Item#: M3TXTW | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Woman's Been After Man Ever Since - Little Jimmy Dickens ~ Various Artists |  | | 2. Beware - Mollie O'Brien ~ Various Artists | | | 3. Telephone Girl, The - Todd Burge ~ Various Artists | | | 4. Why Do You Bob Your Hair Girls - Ann Magnuson ~ Various Artists | | | 5. Walking In The Way With Jesus - The Nichols Family ~ Various Artists | | | 6. We've Got To Have 'Em That's All - Kathy Mattea ~ Various Artists | | | 7. You Must Unload - Larry Groce ~ Various Artists | | | 8. Prayer Of the Drunkards Little Girl, The - Connie Smith ~ Various Artists | | | 9. Black And Blue Eyes - Nat Reese ~ Various Artists | | | 10. Money Cravin' Folks - The Carpenter Ants ~ Various Artists | | | 11. You'll Miss Me - Jerry Douglas/Tim O'Brien/Mollie O'Brien/Nick Forster/Chris Engleman ~ Various Artists | | | 12. Always Lift Him Up And Never Knock Him Down - John Morris/Dwight Miller ~ Various Artists | | | 13. There'll Be No Distinction There - Bare Bones ~ Various Artists | | | 14. Explosion In The Fairmount Mine - John Lilly ~ Various Artists | | | 15. Fate Of Chris Lively And Wife - Charlie McCoy ~ Various Artists | | | 16. Walking In the Way With Jesus - Robert Shafer/Johnny Staats/John Staats ~ Various Artists | | | 17. Black And Blue Eyes - Ray Benson & A Sleep At the Wheel ~ Various Artists | | | 18. I Mean To Live For Jesus - Everett Lilly & The Songcatchers ~ Various Artists | | | 19. How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live - Tim O'Brien ~ Various Artists | |
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| | Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | Discovered by Ralph Peer on the fabled 1927 Bristol field recording trip that also yielded the Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers, West Virginian singer, songwriter, and fiddler Blind Alfred Reed was as singular as they come. Already in his 40s when Peer discovered him, Reed was a man out of time in many ways. For one, he wrote his own material, which wasn't as common then as it is now, and his songs, which generally dealt with relations between men and women, the voracious greed of the American businessman, and an abiding concern with redemption and salvation, were like nothing else from his era. This interesting tribute to Reed and his songs was released in conjunction with his induction into the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame and includes Mollie O'Brien's boisterous street band version of "Beware," the maudlin and boozy "The Prayer of the Drunkard's Little Girl" by Connie Smith, the sturdy narrative of "Explosion in the Fairmount Mine" by John Lilly, and Tim O'Brien's rendition of "How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live," Reed's best and most famous song which was originally recorded in 1929 with Reed on fiddle and vocals and his son Arville Reed on guitar. In many ways, Reed was an anachronism. Had he been around during the folk revival of the late '50s and early '60s, his unorthodox and quite striking writing and playing style would have made him a huge star. In the '20s, though, he sounded like a lone voice crying in the wilderness. ~ Steve Leggett |
Producer: Michael Lipton; Tim O'Brien; Don Dixon |
| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 11/06/2007 | | Original Release Date : 2007 | | Catalog ID : PRPACD-006 | | Label : Proper American | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Runtime : 67m : 35s | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00852007001135 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Uncut (p.98)
- 3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he stark clarity of the original material still shines through, from Todd Burge's 'The Telephone Girl' to Tim O'Brien's 'How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live'."Mojo (Publisher)
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- 5 stars out of 5 -- "[A] colourful celebration of Reed's extraordinary songs: the wonder of new-fangled invention, a censorious view of fashion adn the equality of man. Glorious." |
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