Fred Gerlach - Twelve-String Guitar: Folk Songs and BluesNew York City in the early 1950s: Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston and Pete Seeger et al. Are leading the post war revival in American Folk music. Their contemporary Fred Gerlach (1925 2009) is carrying the mantle from Lead Belly to become an innovative pioneer of the twelve string guitar. In 1962 he made this album, one of only a few recordings and his only recording for Folkways Records. With his traditional Blues singing and exceptionally intricate

Ramblin' Jack Elliott

Joe Jackson

we are The Creem Circus and we are your favorite band's favorite band

The recordings on this collection are raw and powerful

But it is also my heart

Reichel is like an improvising Harry Partch

With North African bendirs

Influenced by the great classics of the 20th century as well as by other musical genres such as world music and rock

He firmly resisted any collaboration with the Nazi powers and the hiatus allowed him to develop another interest

Archie Shepp

but still a world we can recreate thanks to interpretations of forgotten works

Perry Como and Dick Haymes as being one of the top vocalists of the era is that he died tragically in a light plane crash in 1949 at the age of 37