Ballad of America Volume 1: Over a Wide and Fruitful Land
Ballad of America Volume 1: Over a Wide and Fruitful Land
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About the Artist
"Ballad of America Volume 1" is Sabatella's third independent CD release. The first two, "Where the Hell Am I?" and "A Walk in the Park", feature his compositions exclusively. "A Walk in the Park" received Album of the Year honors at the 2001 Florida Music Awards, and Sabatella was nominated in the category of Best Songwriter. His musical credits also include instrumental and vocal contributions to CDs by such artists as Mary Karlzen, Amanda Green, Diane Ward, Jolynn Daniel, Brian Franklin, Muse, and Sixo, to name a few.
Sabatella was becoming known for his knowledge and insightful interpretations of traditional folk songs when, in 2003, Miami Art Museum commissioned him to record music that would accompany an exhibit called American Tableaux: Many Voices, Many Stories. The exhibition featured more than 80 paintings, sculptures, installations, prints, and photographs from the collection of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Though never formally released, Miami New Times magazine included those recordings in a listing of the best music of 2003. In September 2004 Winnipeg Art Gallery in Manitoba, Canada purchased advance copies of the new CD, Ballad of America Volume 1, to accompany their presentation of the same exhibit.
Product Description
This is the story of the United States of America vividly told through a wealth of traditional folk songs. The early settlers in the New World played and sang a variety of songs from their native homelands as they worked, prayed, and enjoyed leisure activities. By the time of the American Revolution, they were adapting these songs and creating new ones that reflected their ever-changing circumstances and environment.
The journey on this CD begins in the latter part of the eighteenth century when the United States of America became an independent nation. It follows the paths of the pioneers, sailors, lumberjacks, immigrants, '49ers, farmers, slaves, soldiers, cowboys, and railroaders who moved the country across the continent and into the twentieth century.
The all-acoustic "Ballad of America Volume 1" features Sabatella on guitar with a host of musical guests who make contributions on banjo, fiddle, concertina, resonator guitar, bodhran, harmonica, mandolin, and upright bass. But the focal point of the album is Sabatella's mesmerizing baritone voice, which infuses the nineteenth century songs, many virtually forgotten, with an immediacy and intimacy that belies their age.
Ballad of America Volume 1: Over a Wide and Fruitful Land,Matthew Sabatella,Slipstream Records,Folk,Folk & Traditional,Pop,This is the story of the United States of America vividly told through a wealth of traditional folk songs.
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Ballad of America Volume 1: Over a Wide and Fruitful Land
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ASIN: B0007QMQY0 Release Date: 2005-02-15 |
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Album Description
This is the story of the United States of America vividly told through a wealth of traditional folk songs. The early settlers in the New World played and sang a variety of songs from their native homelands as they worked, prayed, and enjoyed leisure activities. By the time of the American Revolution, they were adapting these songs and creating new ones that reflected their ever-changing circumstances and environment.The journey on this CD begins in the latter part of the eighteenth century when the United States of America became an independent nation. It follows the paths of the pioneers, sailors, lumberjacks, immigrants, '49ers, farmers, slaves, soldiers, cowboys, and railroaders who moved the country across the continent and into the twentieth century.
The all-acoustic "Ballad of America Volume 1" features Sabatella on guitar with a host of musical guests who make contributions on banjo, fiddle, concertina, resonator guitar, bodhran, harmonica, mandolin, and upright bass. But the focal point of the album is Sabatella's mesmerizing baritone voice, which infuses the nineteenth century songs, many virtually forgotten, with an immediacy and intimacy that belies their age.
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