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All Originals, All Traditionals Listen to the track titled
Chinquapin Hunting Listen to the track titled
Pine Knoll Want to hear more? |
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I especially love music that sounds like places I've never been, and
Alaskan fiddler-poet Ken Waldman works hard at evoking his home state, as
if he were the only man charged with bringing its tales down to the lower
48. (He also tours as if he has that mandate.) In his new volume of
poetry, The Secret Visitor's Guide, he reflects on his journeys into the
wilderness from his Anchorage base and the long trips he's made back,
balancing a weathered humanism with his grief and confusion over post 9/11
politics. His latest record, the self-released All Originals, All
Traditionals, combines old and new material, and you'd have to know fiddle
music very well to tell which is which just by listening--Waldman's own
compositions have all the richly melodic hairpin turns and switchbacks of
the genuine article, sounding like they've been worn smooth after years of
being passed from player to player." |
