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14 Apr, 2021
Porcelain rice bowls
Best price l could find for six porcelain rice bowls.. - seems they're often sold in fours. Very well packed and dispatched swiftly. There's a tiny fault on the rim of one, but this must have happened prior to firing and is not a chip. Not worth making a fuss about. Very Happy otherwise.
29 Jan, 2020
A decent bridge blank, ideal for remodelling and adjustment.
This comes already notched for the strings, but needs a little work to make the notches match the thickness of the strings. The spacing of the notches varies between instruments, of course, but there's enough height to allow for remodelling. Good quality, neatly finished.
19 Apr, 2008
A good cross-sectional example of Lomax's Magnum Opus
This is definitely one for the archivist, with limited appeal for anyone else. Very well-recorded, with an excellent clear and crisp dynamic sound, many of the songs are 'a capella' often with nothing more than a handclap for rhythm, or in the case of the prisoner chain-gang songs; the sound of a hammer.
There are simple songs from simple country folk; passed down in the form of an oral history and played by unaccomplished musicians with mediocre voices - complete with coughs! - and there are complicated finger-picked tunes sung with good vocal tonality. This really has both the rough and the smooth.
There are short intro's and outro's by some of the performers; including one by the great, great, grand niece(?) of Jessie James - introducing a version of the much-recorded eponymous song, that contained lyrics I'd never heard before.
There's a very sweetly sung murder ballad, which twists at the end and gives you some idea of where Nick Cave may have found inspiration..
The closely harmonised, field and work songs are first class, whilst some of the more traditional folk songs, bear a close resemblance to English folk music and can be quite tedious; relying on repetition verging on pointlessness, in the manner of 'Froggy went a-courting'.
But of course, this isn't pop music. This isn't something designed to capture the imagination of the retail hoards; it's history, it's the past preserved in the present through the diligence and unstinting recordist exploits of Alan Lomax.
Lomax undertook an astonishing journey through the byways of American folk culture; realising it was something that could be lost forever if it weren't paid attention to and preserved for posterity.
Many of us will perhaps be unaware of how unexpectedly high profile many of Lomax's recordings have become in recent years; through the samplings of Moby and Fat Boy Slim, amongst others. This album also contains the recording of 'Po' Lazarus' used on the soundtrack of the Cohen brother movie; 'Oh Brother, Where Art Thou'. This movie was largely responsible for the massive resurgence of interest in the American folk and Bluegrass music of the depression era.
Doubtless, some of the other tracks featured in the movie were gleaned from the Lomax archives; I'll just have to buy the other records in the anthology to find out..!