casting nets across the pond
This is an Americana edition of CC CD, full of old time pedal steel, corn-cob crooners, and rockabilly wranglers. Saddle up for 60 minutes of…
Yeah, that’s probably what the introduction would sound like if this were an American Routes show. But it’s not, though I guess the songs I’ve picked for CC CD #2 sound like they belong on that fine show. I don’t really like commercial country music, but I was raised on folk (and 70′s rock, sure) and the slide guitar country tunes my grandfather loved. He’d listen to songs like these on his one-speaker portable radio that seemed ancient even back then. A lot of these songs took me right back to those years on my grandfather’s back porch, puttering around, as he would say. Maybe all these songs aren’t American roots music, but they’re surely MY roots music.
When I created the first collection of CreativeCommons-licensed songs in December last year, I knew of only a few sites that featured CC music, and picked only from ccmixter.org. While ccmixter attains the highest level of collaboration between its members, I’ve since learned there are many sites that now focus on, or at least include, CC-licensed work–sites like Magnatune, the Free Music Archive, and Jamendo.
Many of the songs in this edition of the CC CD are courtesy of Bloodshot Records and their amazing (promotional) contribution to the Free Music Archive. I predict we’ll see more promotional activity like this from record labels as technology continues to change the way we all create and consume music–and drags the business of music along behind.
Without further ado, I present the songlist for CC CD #2:
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Pedal steel huh, grand pa huh
we’ll show ya
I love it.
You say so much so quickly in the intro to Cypress Dog Blues.
Thanx for the intro to this music.
This is my birthdat present to my self. listening to the album in total.
Hy
ok Cypress Grove Blues
Well well Mr MJHICKS,
I am thoroughly enjoying myself.
I have just be uplifted by the talent of Robbie Folkes. first song on your Americana.
As soon as I shut up, & iwill hear the promised 2 & 3 of this talented Robbie.
Hy