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| Tim Eriksen- "O Death" |
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www.timeriksen.net
By request. I heard Dock Boggs sing this on a
record when I was a kid and loved it and
hated it right away. Cordelia's Dad worked up
a version with Mike Seeger for a gig ca.
1997. It really got stuck in my head hearing
Ralph Stanley sing it every night for a month
when we were on the Great High Mountain Tour
together.
I'd been telling incredulous people for many
years that an unaccompanied old song would
find its way into the hit parade, so I felt
somewhat vindicated when I heard Ralph's
voice emanating from a shoe store at the Mall
of America around 2001. (On a recording).
Here's a link to my Prairie Home Companion
performance of "o death" (as well as an old
Amherst version of the song "two babes.")I've
often had mixed feelings about PHC, but
seeing Garrison at work gave me a real
appreciation for it. Among other things, we
did two consecutive nights at the Fitzgerald
Theater in St. Paul, and the second show was
completely different, after what must have
been an all-nighter on GK's part. Check out
the way he introduces me to sing "o death."
This was completely spur of the moment- no
discussion whatsoever. I wasn't even
scheduled to perform in that part of the
show- he just started motioning to me toward
the end of the monologue, and the stage
manager ran to get a mic set up. Garrison
made eye contact, said something about a
train whistle, then pointed at me like I was
supposed to know what to do. It was cool.
http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/programs/2
005/10/29/
One of these days I wanna rope my buddy Mike
Hickey, ex- Venom, into doing a version.
Tags : northern roots alternative folk eriksen stanley boggs cordelia's dad death brother where art thou mike seeger |
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Durée : 189 s |
| Rita Eriksen - Hjerteslag |
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Endelig ny, lenge etterlengtet plate fra
RITA ERIKSEN - HJERTESLAG
NÃ¥ er Rita klar med 13 helt nye
innspillinger. Hjerteslag har vært planlagt
i lang tid. Her er det låt-tolkeren Rita
Eriksen som har valgt fra øverste hylle
blant låtskrivere og sanger. Også denne
gang har hun valgt å synge på norsk, og har
fått hjelp av forfatteren Ingvar Hovland til
de fleste norske gjendiktningene.
LÃ¥tskriverne hun har valgt omfatter bl.a.
Gillian Welch, Darden Smith, Townes Van
Zandt, Leonard Cohen, Peter Rowan, John
Stewart og Buddy Mondlock. Sistnevnte skrev
forøvrig Eriksens kjempehit Coming Down In
The Rain, og han medvirker på en av sine to
låter på plata.
Innspillingen ble gjort i Stable Studio i
Oslo, med Leif Johansen, Georg Jojje Wadenius
og Rita selv som produsenter. Blant musikerne
er bror Frank, så samarbeidet dem i mellom
er på ingen måte over. Det er heller ikke
samarbeidet med Anita Skorgan og Hilde
Heltberg i Queen Bees. Men nå var tiden inne
for et soloprosjekt fra Rita.
Rita feirer i år sitt 20.årsjubileum som
artist, og det har utrolig nok gått 10 år
siden forrige egne plateutgivelse. Rita er
mest kjent for sitt samarbeid med sin bror,
Frank, i duoen Eriksen. Sammen har de utgitt
4 CD-er. Den første Two Blue ble hedret med
Spellemannpris og de to neste; The Water Is
Wide og Alt vende tilbake ble nominert til
Spellemannpris. BÃ¥de musikkritikere og
publikum viste å sette stor pris på
Eriksen, og platene har vært salgssuksesser,
som samlet har passert over 150 000 solgte
plater.
Ved siden av sitt samarbeid med Frank, har
Rita vært blant de mest ettertraktede
duettpartere blant sine artistkolleger. Vamp,
Bjørn Eidsvåg, Bjørn Berge, Tre Små
Kinesere, Jonas Fjeld, Reidar Larsen,
Christian Ingebrigtsen og Hellbillies har
alle gjort nytte av Ritas fantastiske stemme,
med Tir na noir sammen med Vamp som kanskje
den aller meste kjente og polulære.
Andre prosjekter omfatter bl.a. platen
Tideland sammen med irske Dolores Keane,
Camomile sammen med japanske Emi Fujita,
medvirkning på hyllestplater for Alf
Prøysen, Erik Bye og Johnny Cash, og i
2006/ 2007 - et halvt års opphold i
Stavanger der hun debuterte som syngende
skuespiller i suksesstykket Skyfri Himmel med
sanger av Bjørn Eidsvåg.
Sanger:
01: Eg kalle deg venn
02: Karl Johan
03: Di eina
04: Det lys som alltid skinne
05: Han va som våren
06: Morgengry
07: Alexandra reise
08: Aller sista vers
09: Gjenferd i mi sjel
10: Den verste vinter
11: Du va der for meg
12: Mine tårer
13: Eg vandra langs med elvå
Tags : Rita Eriksen Hjerteslag Slagerfabrikken Universal Norsk vise Gillian Welch Darden Smith Townes Van Zandt Leonard Cohen |
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Durée : 148 s |
| Tim Eriksen-"Two Babes" |
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www.timeriksen.net
A true story from Amherst, MA- it goes by
different names.
My dulcimer was made by Ellis Wolfe, who made
my banjo from the same walnut beam he said
his dad took out of a barn in their hometown
of Butler, TN that was taken down some time
ago to make room for the railroad.
Ellis didn't play much, but he made some
beautiful instruments in the way he learned
from "Old Man Stanley," as he called him. He
said Stanley Hicks used to walk down the back
side of Beech Mountain from North Carolina
into Tennessee, where he befriended and
taught Mr. Wolfe, who was pretty advanced in
years himself when we meet him ca. 1993.
The story could hardly be more immediate and
contemporary. This version and its tune come
from Amherst, I believe.
I started taping when it was still pretty
light out, but the mosquitoes were so bad I
kept having to start over. I finally figured
out I could last til I didn't need my left
hand (on the "sol" before the last refrain)
and then brush them off.
The old cemetery is like Winter in that it's
not so overwhelmingly hard to keep up with as
Spring and some parts of Summer.
If you've never had Hadley asparagus, you're
missing out. This year the grass came in the
day before I taped "Oh Death" and
"Friendship" on Mt. Holyoke, after which it
constituted most of our supper- lightly
grilled and truly amazing. At Cook Farm you
can even get even get Hadley grass ice cream.
Here's the url for my performance of the song
on A Prairie Home Companion:
http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/programs/2
005/10/29/
I came home one day to a message on the
answering machine saying "This is a message
for Tim Eriksen. My name is Garrison Keillor,
and I have a radio show called 'A Prairie
Home Companion.' I understand that you sing
horrifying songs. If this is the case, please
call me on my cell phone (651)..." When I
called him back he asked "what horrifies
you?" I said "if it's not true I don't think
it's horrifying." I sang this and "Oh Death"
on his Halloween show- there's more info in
the description of my youtube version of that
song.
ETC...
Tags : Amherst Cemetery Tim Eriksen Hadley Massachusetts Northern Roots Ellis Wolfe dulcimer old time alternative folk |
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