Brian Harnetty - American Winter (2007)

Label: Atavistic
Catalog#: ATA61181
Format: CD
Country: US
Released: 2007
Genre: Classical, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Contemporary, Folk, Experimental, Minimal, Field Recordings
Audio: FLAC
Size: 208 MB

Tracklist:
01 The Night Is Quite Advancing 4:37
02 It's Wintry Outside Tonight, But Inside 0:17
03 I'll Cross The Briny Ocean, I'll Cross The Deep Blue Sea 3:23
04 I'll Have To Go Off And Be Gone Tonight 3:52
05 As I Lay On The Prairie, And Looked At The Stars 0:47
06 The Famous Goldfish Bowl (Which Is Really Just A Huge Jar) 3:12
07 "That's A Drunkard's Dream, Nearly Everybody Knows It" 3:36
08 Instrumental With Fiddle And Harmonium 0:36
09 While Pacing A Garden, I Paused For To Hear 3:35
10 "I Was Interested In The Story You Just Told Me About The Funeral" 4:58
11 In London City I Used To Dwell 2:09
12 Speaking To The American Farmer 1:09
13 "Thank You, Vern Henson" 0:37
14 I Am On The Gospel Highway (My Heart Has Brought Me Home) 4:44
15 The Soldier Pulled Off His Uniform Of Blue 6:40
16 Soon We'll Reach The Starry Sky 3:15
17 "We'll Look For You If We Come Back" 0:44

Source Material, Musicians, And Recordings From The Berea Archives:
Addie Graham (tracks 1, 7, 11, 12, 15)
Renfro Valley Barn Dance (2)
Frankie And Lionel Duff (3, 9)
Nova And Travis Baker (4)
Henry Pennington (4)
Pinex Merrymakers (5)
Girls Of The Golden West (5)
"President Roosevelt Begins Draft" News Broadcast (6)
Dock Ison (8)
A.L. Phipps (10)
Howard Chalmer And Hurley Smith (11)
"American Farmer" Radio Program (12)
Arthur Godfrey (13)
Elizabeth And Arminda Stacy (14)
"The Commandos" Radio Program (15)
Berzilla Wallin And Della Norton (15)
Mrs. Bradley (16)
David Hill (16)
Leonard And Blanch Brake (17)

American Winter = holler musics woven with archival field/radio recordings, meeting the 21st century.

The Berea College (Kentucky) Sound Archives holds non-commercial recordings documenting more than 75 years of Appalachian history and culture. In late 2005, the Berea College Appalachian Music Fellowship Program was made possible by a grant from the Anne Ray Charitable Trust, established by the late Margaret Anne Cargill. The Fellowship program supports scholarly research in Berea's collections of traditional music.

“Brian Harnetty was among the first Appalachian Music Fellows. initially overwhelmed by the collection's richness, he quickly immersed himself in field recordings, radio programs, and oral history interviews. We conversed daily about what he'd heard, the concept of tradition, and collections as a type of composition. The resulting pieces take the known, unknown, and forgotten, reworking them into new cloth and exposing new layers of humanity." — John H. Bondurant, Sound Preservation Archivist, Berea College.