Walls of Time
MIKE BLOCK
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1 Walls of Time / Glor y in the Meeting House (Peter Rowan / Traditional) 2 How ‘Bout Going to the Creek? (Mike Block) 3 Lay Down Your Wear y Tune (Bob Dylan) 4 Old Sledge (Traditional, by way of Ed Haley) 5 CC Rider (Ger trude "Ma" Rainey and Lena Arant) 6 Old Danger field (Bill Monroe) 7 The Blackest Crow (Traditional) 8 Julianne Johnson / Forked Deer (Traditional) 9 Wayfaring Stranger (Traditional) 10 Roll Over Beethoven (Chuck Berr y)
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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 reimagination 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 Berr y) , Lay Down Your Weary Tune (Bob Dylan); and a new original of mine, How
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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 from other countries/styles: Wu Tong (China), Sandeep Das (India), Tunde Jegede (Nigeria), and Derek Gripper (South Africa).
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All arrangements by Mike Block
Album Performer Credits: Mike Block (lead vocals, cello) | Bruce Molsky (fiddle, harmony vocals) | Joe K. Walsh (mandolin) Zachariah Hickman (bass) | Tunde Jegede (kora) | Wu Tong (sheng) | Sandeep Das (tabla) | Darol Anger (fiddle) Derek Gripper (guitar) | Dietrich Strauss (harmony vocals) | Mark Erelli (harmony vocals) Produced by Mike Block | Mastered by Dave Sinko Cover art by Kevork Mourad | Album package design by Marian C. Holmes Engineered/Mixed by Dan Cardinal at Dimension Sound Studios, Jamaica Plain, MA Tracks 2, 6, 7, 8, 10 recorded May 2018 | Tracks 1, 4, 6 recorded April 2017 Track 3 recorded October 2017 | Track 5 recorded December 2017 | Track 9 recorded July 2018
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