Ragpicker String Band - The Ragpicker String Band (2015)
BAND/ARTIST: Ragpicker String Band, Mary Flower, Rich Delgrosso, Martin Grosswendt
- Title: The Ragpicker String Band
- Year Of Release: 2015
- Label: Yellow Dog Records
- Genre: Acoustic Blues
- Quality: flac lossless (tracks)
- Total Time: 00:57:23
- Total Size: 352 mb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
01. Honey Babe (Feat. Mary Flower, Rich Delgrosso, Martin Grosswendt)
02. Minor Blues (Feat. Mary Flower, Rich Delgrosso, Martin Grosswendt)
03. Google Blues (Feat. Mary Flower, Rich Delgrosso, Martin Grosswendt)
04. Blue Monk (Feat. Mary Flower, Rich Delgrosso, Martin Grosswendt)
05. Clean Up At Home (Feat. Mary Flower, Rich Delgrosso, Martin Grosswendt)
06. Motel Towel (Feat. Mary Flower, Rich Delgrosso, Martin Grosswendt)
07. Baby Where You Been (Feat. Mary Flower, Rich Delgrosso, Martin Grosswendt)
08. Black Mattie (Feat. Mary Flower, Rich Delgrosso, Martin Grosswendt)
09. Lonely One In This Town (Feat. Mary Flower, Rich Delgrosso, Martin Grosswendt)
10. By Your Side (Feat. Mary Flower, Rich Delgrosso, Martin Grosswendt)
11. Milk Cow Blues (Feat. Mary Flower, Rich Delgrosso, Martin Grosswendt)
12. Trimmed and Burning (Feat. Mary Flower, Rich Delgrosso, Martin Grosswendt)
13. Street Doctor Blues (Feat. Mary Flower, Rich Delgrosso, Martin Grosswendt)
14. Bruno's Dream (Feat. Mary Flower, Rich Delgrosso, Martin Grosswendt)
Mandolinist Rich DelGrosso, Guitarist Mary Flower and multi-instrumentalist Martin Grosswendt have earned steady streams of praise for their outstanding string skills. Combined, these three have earned nine Blues Music Award nominations and enjoyed rave reviews and top festival slots all over the world. And they do strum, pick and bow up a storm together as the Ragpicker String Band -- but it's their tight trio harmonies that especially dazzle. The acoustic dream team summons the spirits of everyone from the Mississippi Sheiks and Blind Boy Fuller to Jim Kweskin and R. Crumb as their voices and fingers fly through the mists back to the golden prewar age of folk-blues. Classics by the likes of Sleepy John Estes and Blind Willie Johnson - combined with new originals by Flower and DelGrosso - allow this virtuosic threesome to leaven their serious instrumental and vocal chops with mischievous humor. Just as Kweskin and Crumb filtered the songs and sounds of their heroes of country blues through their own modern sensibilities and considerable personalities, so do these contemporary traditionalists. Jump from a fabulously fretted, sublimely sung trip to the past like Trimmed and Burning to a laughing lament of modern times like Google Blues and you'll find out what an uncommonly fine stew of traditional and contemporary ingredients they've cooked up. They even season it with a delectable dose of jazz via a conspicuously piano-less romp through Blue Monk. DelGrosso's mandolin mastery has been dubbed the best since Yank. Add what Mary -- a two-time finalist at the National Fingerpicking Guitar Championship -- and Martin (One of the best fingerpickers I ever heard play -D. Bromberg) bring to the table and you know you're in for a string exhibition of the highest order. Add to that irresistible harmonies and irrepressible humor and you've got a side project worthy of the front-and-center spotlight.
01. Honey Babe (Feat. Mary Flower, Rich Delgrosso, Martin Grosswendt)
02. Minor Blues (Feat. Mary Flower, Rich Delgrosso, Martin Grosswendt)
03. Google Blues (Feat. Mary Flower, Rich Delgrosso, Martin Grosswendt)
04. Blue Monk (Feat. Mary Flower, Rich Delgrosso, Martin Grosswendt)
05. Clean Up At Home (Feat. Mary Flower, Rich Delgrosso, Martin Grosswendt)
06. Motel Towel (Feat. Mary Flower, Rich Delgrosso, Martin Grosswendt)
07. Baby Where You Been (Feat. Mary Flower, Rich Delgrosso, Martin Grosswendt)
08. Black Mattie (Feat. Mary Flower, Rich Delgrosso, Martin Grosswendt)
09. Lonely One In This Town (Feat. Mary Flower, Rich Delgrosso, Martin Grosswendt)
10. By Your Side (Feat. Mary Flower, Rich Delgrosso, Martin Grosswendt)
11. Milk Cow Blues (Feat. Mary Flower, Rich Delgrosso, Martin Grosswendt)
12. Trimmed and Burning (Feat. Mary Flower, Rich Delgrosso, Martin Grosswendt)
13. Street Doctor Blues (Feat. Mary Flower, Rich Delgrosso, Martin Grosswendt)
14. Bruno's Dream (Feat. Mary Flower, Rich Delgrosso, Martin Grosswendt)
Mandolinist Rich DelGrosso, Guitarist Mary Flower and multi-instrumentalist Martin Grosswendt have earned steady streams of praise for their outstanding string skills. Combined, these three have earned nine Blues Music Award nominations and enjoyed rave reviews and top festival slots all over the world. And they do strum, pick and bow up a storm together as the Ragpicker String Band -- but it's their tight trio harmonies that especially dazzle. The acoustic dream team summons the spirits of everyone from the Mississippi Sheiks and Blind Boy Fuller to Jim Kweskin and R. Crumb as their voices and fingers fly through the mists back to the golden prewar age of folk-blues. Classics by the likes of Sleepy John Estes and Blind Willie Johnson - combined with new originals by Flower and DelGrosso - allow this virtuosic threesome to leaven their serious instrumental and vocal chops with mischievous humor. Just as Kweskin and Crumb filtered the songs and sounds of their heroes of country blues through their own modern sensibilities and considerable personalities, so do these contemporary traditionalists. Jump from a fabulously fretted, sublimely sung trip to the past like Trimmed and Burning to a laughing lament of modern times like Google Blues and you'll find out what an uncommonly fine stew of traditional and contemporary ingredients they've cooked up. They even season it with a delectable dose of jazz via a conspicuously piano-less romp through Blue Monk. DelGrosso's mandolin mastery has been dubbed the best since Yank. Add what Mary -- a two-time finalist at the National Fingerpicking Guitar Championship -- and Martin (One of the best fingerpickers I ever heard play -D. Bromberg) bring to the table and you know you're in for a string exhibition of the highest order. Add to that irresistible harmonies and irrepressible humor and you've got a side project worthy of the front-and-center spotlight.
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