Michelle Shocked - Arkansas Traveler

Michelle Shocked - Arkansas Traveler (Re-issue)
Жанр: Folk / Country Rock / Blues
Год издания: 2004
Издатель (лейбл): Mighty Sound (USA)
Страна: USA
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Тип рипа: tracks+.cue
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Продолжительность: 79:56
Источник (релизер): Источник - Вата, релизер - chowbok
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Треклист:
1. 33 RPM Soul
2. Come Along Way
3. Secret To A Long Life
4. Contest Coming
5. Over The Waterfall
6. Shaking Hands
7. Jump Jim Crow
8. Hold Me Back
9. Strawberry Jam
10. Prodigal Daughter
11. Blackberry Blossom
12. Weaving Way
13. Arkansas Traveller
14. Woody's Rag
15. Worth The Weight
16. Come A Long Way (acoustic)
17. Blackberry Blossom
18. Weaving Way (alternate version)
19. Down In Arkansas (live)
20. Introducing Dollar Bill (live)
21. C-H-I-C-K-E-N

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One may feel a certain pity for Mercury Records when it took delivery of Michelle Shocked's third album for the label, Arkansas Traveler. Mercury had signed the feisty country-folk singer/songwriter in the wake of the hoopla surrounding her first album, The Texas Campfire Tapes, an impromptu collection recorded on a cassette player at the 1986 Kerrville Folk Festival. Shocked eschewed a hefty advance in favor of greater artistic control and then delivered the well-received Short Sharp Shocked (1988), followed by Captain Swing (1989), something of a swing-band genre exercise. Both albums reached the Top 100 in Billboard and spent six-plus months in the charts. At first, Arkansas Traveler must have sounded like a breakthrough effort; it was certainly ambitious. Shocked was adapting old folk and country material such as Soldier's Joy, Frankie Johnny, and Cotton Eyed Joe with new arrangements and lyrics, and she was conducting sessions around the world with a host of impressive partners. In Australia, she collaborated with Paul Kelly's backup band, the Messengers, on Weaving Way, and she went to Ireland to record Over the Waterfall with the Hothouse Flowers. In the U.S., there were sessions in Chicago, IL, with Pops Staples of the Staple Singers (33 RPM Soul); Woodstock, NY, with Levon Helm and Garth Hudson of the Band (Secret to a Long Life); Chapel Hill, NC, with the Red Clay Ramblers (Contest Coming [Cripple Creek]); St. Charles, MO, with Uncle Tupelo (Shaking Hands [Soldier's Joy]); Los Angeles with Taj Mahal (Jump Jim Crow/Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah); Memphis, TN, with Clarence Gatemouth Brown (Hold Me Back [Frankie Johnny]); Wilkesboro, NC, with Doc Watson (Strawberry Jam); Franklin, TN, with Alison Krauss Union Station (Prodigal Daughter [Cotton Eyed Joe]); Rising Fawn, GA, with Rising Fawn String Ensemble (Blackberry Bottom); Mountain View, AR, with Jimmy Driftwood (Arkansas Traveler); and Mineola, TX, with Dollars, Taxes, featuring her father, Dollar Bill Johnston, on mandolin (Woody Guthrie's Woody's Rag).
The music ranged from folk-rock to old-timey country, and Shocked interacted well with her many guests, reinvigorating the traditional tunes and remaking them in her own exuberant style. If they had a chance to think about it, the executives at Mercury might have dreamed of a PBS special featuring all the musicians and a home video to further expose and promote a release that might have seemed like a potential cross-genre smash. Then would have come the bombshell. Shocked, it seemed, had been inspired in her conception of the album by an interest in the history of blackface minstrelsy, which provided the source of such songs as Jump Jim Crow, and she wanted to appear in blackface on the cover of the album. Despite her contracted artistic control, Mercury rejected this desire, which of course would have constituted commercial (and perhaps career) suicide, but the label did allow her to write a sleeve note about her intentions and then felt required to add a disclaimer to the effect that her views do not necessarily represent those of the musicians who have generously contributed their time and talent to this project. One could certainly listen to and enjoy Arkansas Traveler while ignoring all this small-print, handwritten commentary in the album's booklet, but of course critics couldn't be expected to do that, and while praising the music, they also commented on the artist's no doubt well-intentioned, but seemingly confused -- or at least confusing -- concept. As a result, Arkansas Traveler failed to sell and became Shocked's last major-label effort.-- Allmusic

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ARKANSAS TRAVELER LINER NOTES
Conceived, Written, and Produced by Michelle Shocked
33 RPM Soul
Recorded at Trax Recording, Chicago, IL
Pops Staples guitar and vocal
Bob Murphy keyboards
Hassan Khan bass
Buddy Fambro guitar
William T Mason drums
Vanessa Holmes vocal
HerManita Jones vocal
Denny Fongheiser additional drums
Arkansas Traveler guitar and vocal
Glenn Rosenstein engineer
Al Ursini 2nd engineer
Special thanks to Reed Hyams, Chuck Kawal, Keith Mestil Paul Khoury
Come A Long Way
Recorded at Ocean Way Studios, Los Angeles, CA
Mark Goldenberg guitar
Mitchell Froom B-3
Jerry Scheff bass
Kenny Aronoff drums
Mickey Raphael harmonica
Byron Berline fiddle
Arkansas Traveler guitar, mandolin and vocal
Don Was producer
Rik Pekkonen engineer
Dan Bosworth 2nd engineer
Special thanks to Ed, Bob, Bob Ed. Thanks to Danny, Dan, Don, Dawn Dane. Thanks Randy, Rand the Repo Man. Thanks to God and my producer. Welcome aboard, Larry
Secret to a Long Life
Recorded at Dreamland Studios, Woodstock, NY
Levon Helm mandolin and vocal
Garth Hudson accordion and keyboards
Tony Levin bass
Jerry Marotta drums
Albert Lee guitar
Arkansas Traveler guitar and vocal
Bernie Leadon music director/co-producer
Tom Cook engineer
Management by Joe Forno David Fishof/For This Band, Inc.
Special thanks to Steve Martin, Ed Loretta H
Contest Coming
Recorded at Jack's House, Chapel Hill, NC
The Red Clay Ramblers:
Tommy Thompson banjo and vocal
Clay Buckner fiddle and vocal
Chris Frank accordion
Jack Herrick bass
Bland Simpson piano
Ed Butler bones and triangle
Bernie Leadon mandolin
Arkansas Traveler guitar and vocal
The Red Clay Ramblers appear courtesy of Sugar Hill Records
Special thanks to Keith Case, Lee Olsen, Lynn Herrick, Barry Poss, Si Kahn
Over the Waterfall
Recorded at Windmill Lane Studios, Dublin, Ireland
The Hothouse Flowers:
Fiachna O'Braonain guitar and tin whistle
Liam O'Maonlai bodhran and piano
Peter O'Toole bouzouki and bass
Jerry Fehily drums
Leo Barnes sax and B-3
Arkansas Traveler mandolin and vocal
Hugh Padgham engineer/co-producer
Hothouse Flowers appear courtesy of London Records
Management by Robbie Wooton/Undercover Mgmt, Dublin, Ireland
Special thanks to all at London Records, Caroline Kennedy, Caroline Henry all at the Factory
Shaking Hands (Soldier's Joy)
Recorded on The Spirit of St Charles Riverboat, St Charles, MO
Uncle Tupelo:
Jay Farrar guitar and vocal
Michael Heidorn drums
Jeff Tweedy bass and vocal
Bernie Leadon mandolin
Jack Irons field snare
Arkansas Traveler vocal
Bernie Leadon music director/co-producer
Glenn Rosenstein engineer
Recorded with Effanel
Uncle Tupelo appears courtesy of Rockville Records
Management by Tony Margherita/Tony Margherita Mgmt. St Louis, MO
Special thanks to Michael Barclay, Nicky Ferguson, Margaret Johnston, Sheena, The Optimist Club David Flavin
Jump Jim Crow
Recorded at Bill