Unfortunate Rake, Vol.2: Yellow Mercury
Unfortunate Rake, Vol.2: Yellow Mercury
Track Listings
| 1. Knoxville Rag |
| 2. Shady Grove |
| 3. Unfortunate Rake |
| 4. Job Job |
| 5. Bull and the Bear |
| 6. False Hearted Lover Blues |
| 7. Yerba Buena Lament |
| 8. Love Creek |
| 9. Yellow Mercury No. 2 |
| 10. Indian Ate a Woodchuck |
| 11. Tell Her to Come Back Home |
| 12. Ain't No Grave |
| 13. California Blues |
| 14. Heaven Holds All My Treasures |
| 15. Johnson Gal |
| 16. Broken Time |
| 17. Love Got in the Grain |
| 18. Old Man Below |
| 19. Uncle Rabbit |
| 20. Warfield |
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Product Description
The first CD in three years from old-time string band The Crooked Jades, "The Unfortunate Rake, Volume 2: Yellow Mercury" is the second in a 2 volume set on Copper Creek Records co-produced by alt-country's Richard Buckner. Containing 23 tracks, including 10 originals, the album continues The Crooked Jades' excavation and reinvention of the old-time genre. Performing with an amazing array of vintage and rare instruments, The Crooked Jades, who live and play in San Francisco, explore the theme of modern greed and gentrification as a parallel to the California Gold Rush of 1849.
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Unfortunate Rake, Vol.2: Yellow Mercury
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ASIN: B0000C0FDL Release Date: 2003-08-19 |
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Album Description
The first CD in three years from old-time string band The Crooked Jades, "The Unfortunate Rake, Volume 2: Yellow Mercury" is the second in a 2 volume set on Copper Creek Records co-produced by alt-country's Richard Buckner. Containing 23 tracks, including 10 originals, the album continues The Crooked Jades' excavation and reinvention of the old-time genre. Performing with an amazing array of vintage and rare instruments, The Crooked Jades, who live and play in San Francisco, explore the theme of modern greed and gentrification as a parallel to the California Gold Rush of 1849.Customer Reviews:
High-geared musicians that really feel their old-timey oats.......2003-08-20
Their material draws heavily from the traditional, and liner notes acknowledge the sources for all pieces from Mississippi, Alabama, Virginia, North Carolina, West Virginia and elsewhere. The band is at its best with lively twin fiddled favorites like "Indian Ate A Woodchuck," and "Tell Her To Come Back Home," snappy numbers with plenty of pep. Seven Jeff Kazor originals are also included, and he tends to write slower ballads and laments. His most interesting offering, co-penned with Tom Lucas, is "New Lost Mission Blues," a lament about San Francisco's Mission District where restoration by the middle class is displacing low-income folks. The song includes minstrel banjo, a grinding stone's rhythm and a fife-like instrument called the single quill. Fiddler Adam Tanner also composed "The Bull and The Bear" and "A Broken Time," two bouncy instrumentals.
The Crooked Jades have recorded three albums for Copper Creek, but this is their first after a three year hiatus. The sheer number of tracks, and the variety of instruments, make this an interesting and worthy old-time project. The Crooked Jades are a band of high-geared musicians that really feel their old-timey oats. (Joe Ross, staff writer, Bluegrass Now)
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