WALLS OF TIME
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Best Folk Album
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“After my first album of American Folk music, Final Night at Camp, I wanted to go deeper with the exploration of incorporating musicians from different cultures and styles into the re-imagination of what traditional American music could sound like, using a combination of timeless songs like CC Rider, Blackest Crow, and Wayfaring Stranger; traditional Old-time fiddle tunes like Forked Deer, Julianne Johnson, and Old Sledge; Bluegrass standards like Walls of Time and Old Dangerfield; while also throwing some unexpected things in like Roll Over Beethoven(Chuck Berry), Lay Down Your Weary Tune (Bob Dylan); and a new original of mine, How ‘bout going to the creek?
Grounding this album with the utmost authenticity were accomplished American musicians such as fiddlers Bruce Molsky and Darol Anger, mandolinist Joe K. Walsh, and bassist Zachariah Hickman. Helping me stretch the sounds of America were a handful of friends and musicians from other countries/styles: Wu Tong (China), Sandeep Das (India), Tunde Jegede (Nigeria), and Derek Gripper (South Africa).”-Mike Block
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“What sets this recording apart... is the mid-century folk revival, which opened up folk songs to original or even experimental interpretation. Either such interpretations work, or they don’t. As the saying goes, the worst thing you can do to a folk song is not to sing it. Block is kind to the music in that way, and beyond that, he captures its spirit even in settings far removed from the originals.”
“The song takes on a different feel in this all-strings setting, but Block and company maintain the eerie, chilling vibe of Monroe’s recording by bringing the lonesome.”