Going Up on the Mountain: The Classic First Recordings

Going Up on the Mountain: The Classic First Recordings

Editorial Reviews
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Sometimes an artist's gifts lie in his ability to hide those gifts from his listeners. Such is the case with Jody Stecher, the talented veteran of traditional folk music. He's an adept picker on a number of instruments, a moving and authoritative singer, and a discerning song scout, but that's not what you think when listening to his albums. What you do think is simple: "Gee, this sounds great." This collection brings together most of the material from two topnotch 1970s records, Going Up On the Mountain and Snake Baked a Hoecake, including his first-ever duet with wife and singing partner Kate Brislin among its many highlights. Stecher sounds completely natural, unaffected, and genuine throughout. Bringing together elements of old-time and bluegrass, Stecher lets the music come to him--not bad for a Brooklyn boy. --Marc Greilsamer

Tracks:

Going Up On The Mountain
The Hills Of Isle Au Haut
The Golden Vanity
Wild Bill Jones
Rhinoceros
Black Waters
Turtle Dove
Oh The Wind And The Rain
Don't You Hear Jerusalem Moan
Amanda
Way Downtown
The Hills Of Isle Au Haut
Wedding Dress
Table Mountain Road
Snake Baked A Hoecake
Thompson's Reel
The Blind Fiddler
The Frieze Britches
Leela

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Sometimes an artist's gifts lie in his ability to hide those gifts from his listeners. Such is the case with Jody Stecher, the talented veteran of traditional folk music. He's an adept picker on a number of instruments, a moving and authoritative singer, and a discerning song scout, but that's not what you think when listening to his albums. What you do think is simple: "Gee, this sounds great." This collection brings together most of the material from two topnotch 1970s records, Going Up On the Mountain and Snake Baked a Hoecake, including his first-ever duet with wife and singing partner Kate Brislin among its many highlights. Stecher sounds completely natural, unaffected, and genuine throughout. Bringing together elements of old-time and bluegrass, Stecher lets the music come to him--not bad for a Brooklyn boy. --Marc Greilsamer

Customer Reviews:

unsurpassed folk artist........2007-02-10

first buy mr stecher's great great masterpiece "Oh The Wind and Rain," which is simply the best folk album ever recorded (in my humble opinion), then buy this fantastic disc, then buy everything else you can find with his name on it. the renderings this artist gives to folk ballads, hillbilly tunes, & instrumentals are the freshest, brightest and most heartfelt that i have heard in this genre of music. quite a bit of skill, too (to say the least). get the picture? not to be missed american music.

The Classic First Recordings.......2006-02-15

Although I am all together too young to have experienced Stecher's finest albums in my past, I was instantly drawn into the harmonic and fluid drive of Stecher and his compainions. Accoustic Disc certainly did fans of tradional American and world music a favor, not to mention the growing number of neophytes to these beautiful music forms. This disc features Stecher's masterful command of many forms of bluegrass, old-time, Celtic, Indian and American music forms with and with out the support of others. Fiddle, banjo, guitar, mandolin, dobro, harmonium and a chorus of Indian instruments and vocals intertwine the selection of old and new songs. David Grisman's liner notes to this album mention that Stecher was once compared to Bill Monroe, both for tonality in voice and musicianship. This is certainly an bold but apt statement given the beutiful and rich music contained within this disc. I recently gave this cd as a gift to a friend who is playing and singing with an old time band in Kentucky. As we drove down I-75 and he listened to the first few tracks, he chuckeled to himself and said "this is how we are trying to sound" all the while wondering how this little gem escaped his musical education. Very highly recomended and a great place to start listning to Stecher's musical philosophy.

Quirky Genius.......2000-02-27

I'm sure I'm not the only one who has been waiting impatiently for this CD reissue, a compilation of two classic albums first released in the 1970s. It highlights Stecher's fine singing and playing; his creative melding of Appalachian, Irish, and East Indian musical traditions; and his selection of great material (e.g., "Wedding Dress," "Wild Bill Jones," and the definitive--and definitely spooky--"Oh the Wind and Rain"). Jody's more recent recordings with partner Kate Brislin are excellent in their own right; however, they rarely capture the quirky genius present in these early cuts. One can only hope that we'll soon see a reissue of "Rasa," Stecher's other great classic.

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