Dominique Eade & Ran Blake – Town & Country (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 47:35 minutes | 398 MB | Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz
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Vocalist Dominique Eade and pianist Ran Blake take a stark, mesmerising journey through the American folk tradition on their second duo collaboration ‘Town and Country’, offers unique takes on Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, traditional folk tunes, gospel classics and more.
Plainspoken but poetic, timely and timeless, poignant yet pointed: the American folk song has a long history of confronting specific injustices while embracing a universal humanity. On the ‘Town and Country’ Eade and Blake take the long view of our own tumultuous moment in history with a wide-ranging collection of folk tunes that examine the travails of Americans from Main Street to the mountains.
There are the expected classic tunes and country ballads, the ill-fated coalminers, the tragic romantics grasping out their last breaths, the cries of faith and determination sent heavenward. But in the agile imaginations of these two inventive artists, who share a love for skewing the traditional through a modernist lens, the folk idea is broad enough to include film noir laments and TV-scaled road songs, moonlit love and Third Stream austerity.
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