Our new album of Pinelands folksongs, Pine Barrens Volume One, on Compact Disc with fully pressed CD case, special edition disc artwork by Steven Omark, and shrink-wrap.
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Limited Edition 10" Lathe Cut Vinyl
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
This is a super rare edition 10" Lathe Cut Vinyl Record of Pine Barrens Volume One.
For record enthusiasts, collectors, and those who love surface noise and lathe cut vinyl.
It plays at 33 1/3 RPM.
Each one is one-of-a-kind and hand made by For The Record in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Because of the amount of time on a 10", the vinyl has five songs on it:
Side A:
1. Depression Song
2. Mt. Holly Jail
Side B:
Love Is A Gamble
The Unquiet Grave
Herdman Hymn (Duet)
NOTE: This is not an audiophile, super-HD plate pressing, but instead is hand made on a lathe from the 1940's and sounds like a recording from that era, which is what we intended when we recorded the songs at The Boghouse in the Pine Barrens.
For The Record suggests: Lathe cut records have shallower grooves and some needles may skip across the record. Please make sure the vinyl and needle are clean before playing. They also suggest increasing the anti-skipping setting and/or increasing weight on the tonearm compared to plate pressed vinyl.
Includes unlimited streaming of Pine Barrens Volume One
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Things were mighty tough down in the Pines in 1929
Set in the city for a bowl of soup, city folk waiting in line
FDR sent me down some Jack, sent me down some hobnail boots
Folks started dancing on Saturday night, my how the splinters flew
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PINE BARRENS VOLUME ONE
Recorded live in the Pines, December 2022.
The Boghouse, Jackson, NJ.
Here are some songs from where we grew up, dating from around 1700-2013 and in between.
Our tracklist includes: a depression rag, a prison song, a country song, a Child ballad, a Mississippi John Hurt song that began as a Methodist Hymn in Ocean Grove, NJ, and two versions of a Pine Barrens fiddle tune.
Growing up in the Pine Barrens, we heard folk music played, but never knew what the songs regional to our area were. As we began traveling the country playing folk music, people would say: "NJ folk music? Yeah, right. What does it even sound like?" I'd usually say, "Like this", and we'd play on, but it stuck in my craw for about ten years.
That sent us down a rabbit hole to track down the songs played one hundred years ago in the dense Pine Barrens of NJ. And we found the songs of Merce Ridgway Sr. and The Pine Hawkers.
One afternoon in a house in the Pines, we recorded some of the Pine Hawkers repertoire and some even older tunes as well.
credits
released February 3, 2023
James Black: stand-up bass
Max Carmichael: banjo, octave mandolin, flute, vocals
Cranston Dean: mandolin, guitar, vocals
James Herdman: fiddle, vocals
Joe Makoviecki: guitar, vocals
Engineered: John Sell
Mixed and Mastered: The Phantom
Album Art: Steve Omark
Special thanks to Arlene Martin Ridgway, who gave us permission to record the songs of Merce Ridgway Sr. and Jr., and who gave us a wealth of stories and context for the songs in the family repertoire.
New Album "Pine Barrens, Volume One" and single "Wheel" out now!
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