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River of Song - Music from the

Various (Artist) | Format: Audio CD
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The remarkable two-disc River of Song is the first of a stunning multimedia project (including a four-part PBS documentary, public-radio interviews, and book) on which an array of artists under the tutelage of director-curator Anthony Seeger give voice and share the lore of America's great Mississippi River. The musical journey is parceled into quadrants: from the Northern headwaters, slicing through Twain's heartland; snaking down into the Deep South; wending through Louisiana, where music is king; and culminating at its life-giving, life-taking mouth, the Gulf of Mexico. Prolonged visitation occurs in musical meccas Minneapolis, St. Louis, Memphis, and New Orleans, showcasing the abundant talent and distinct sound of each locale. River of Song celebrates not only the landscapes through which the water traverses but also the colorful cultures that have sprung from and thrive at her banks: Native American, Dutch, African-American, Cajun, and subcultures and hybrids of youth and religion, including indie-rock hipsters, heartland country rockers, Delta blues men, Mexican Dixieland jazz, and both black and white gospel musics from deep believers of faith. Much like driving the Natchez Trace, the journey is profoundly American--deeply affecting in providing not only a sense of the present but of our very roots. --Paige La Grone

Entertainment Weekly

The Mississippi is an arbitrary prop; they could just as easily have driven haphazardly around the U.S.
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Wonderful variety of music Nov 29 2000
Format:Audio CD
I don't normally write reviews, but since this great CD set has no review currently, I thought I'd make an exception. If you are passing by I urge you to give these tracks a listen. You'll find blues, gospel, rock, and various other tpyes of ethnic music. I've yet to play this to anyone who didn't like it. It's fun, it's moving and it's a great buy. Check out "Hilda the red-headed Swede".
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Wonderful variety of music Nov 28 2000
By Paul Marjoram - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Audio CD
I don't normally write reviews, but since this great CD set has no review currently, I thought I'd make an exception. If you are passing by I urge you to give these tracks a listen. You'll find blues, gospel, rock, and various other tpyes of ethnic music. I've yet to play this to anyone who didn't like it. It's fun, it's moving and it's a great buy. Check out "Hilda the red-headed Swede".
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
wide range of sounds Jan 20 2009
By Constance Tarracino - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Audio CD
Well like I said ths dc has a wide range of music.. It starts with American Indian and goes this way and that with tracks very diverse of the lands and people of the Mississippi. I enjoy this type of cd music cause nothing sounds the same. Shows how wide and talanted Americans are in the roots of music. It travels down to Lousiana to cajun with blues and country and gospel etc.all along the way.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Hooky concept produces some good and bad Modern music Jan 11 2012
By J. Bynum - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Audio CD
The Mississippi River of Song / a musical journey down the Mississippi (Folkways): This 2 CD set is supposedly only one part of a various media presentation. I have only experienced this 2 CD set and so my review is based on it alone. The whole idea of Modern recordings being done by all sorts of bands that are supposed to represent the music found as you go down the Mississippi seems unmanageable to begin with, but the concept ultimately fails in these recordings. There are a few good songs here and there but the randomness of these performances are only mildly entertaining. The educational value of this set is completely dependent on someone explaining the `journey', which is not done within the albums themselves. No doubt the film of this project uses these songs well and perhaps again these CDs are here only to give the uneditied songs to those who have seen the film, but as an independent set of songs, this isn't very good. Three Stars
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