Songs from Nowhere and Everywhere
Several of these songs will be startlingly familiar to English-speaking listeners because of their descendents, such as "Bawbee Allen" (which in southern Appalachia became "Barbara Allen") and "Lord Randall" (elements of which were plucked by Bob Dylan for "Hard Rain"). The voice is recorded without instrumentation or even studio adornment of any kind. The simple sound creates an impression that what you're hearing does not take place in a room, not in a stone cottage, not in a valley, but on some timeless, dimensionless Eliadean plane of existence. It's a sublime expression from generations of ancestors, in countless villages. Each song comes from nowhere and everywhere. Sorry, I've gotten carried away. Long story short: I like the record.
