Driftwood

Jimmie Driftwood - Sings Newly Discovered American Folk Songs (1958) & The Wilderness Road (1959) {OMNI-174 rel 2013}
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© 1958-59, 2013 RCA Victor / The Omni Recording Corporation | OMNI - 174
Country / Folk / Traditional Country / Folksongs

Jimmie Driftwood (the recording and performing name of Arkansas school teacher, folklorist, and multi-instrumentalist James Corbitt Morris) began writing songs as a way to help his students learn about American history, and by the time all was said and done, he had written or adapted and recomposed over 6,000 folk songs, and his catalog is as rich as any in Americana, perhaps surpassed only by Woody Guthrie.

Jimmy Driftwood - Voice Of The People (1963) {Omni Recording Reissued & Expanded OMNI-104 rel 2006}
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© 1963, 2006 Monument / The Omni Recording Corporation | OMNI - 104
Country / Folk / Traditional Country / Folksongs

Jimmie Driftwood (or Jimmy, as his name sometimes appears) was a one-of-a-kind folk singer who is known more for the songs he wrote – "The Battle of New Orleans," "Tennessee Stud" – than his own recordings, which are uniformly excellent. Bear Family issued a three-disc box set, Americana, containing all of Driftwood's RCA sides, and the Australian Omni label has stepped up to reissue most of his Monument recordings. Voice of the People is a 28-track anthology that encompasses Driftwood's 1963 album of the same name as well as his 1964 album Down in the Arkansas, and about half of the 1966 LP The Best of Jimmy Driftwood, a collection of re-recordings of songs he previously cut for RCA.

Yasmin Williams sits on her leather couch, her guitar stretched across her lap horizontally with its strings turned to the sky. She taps on the fretboard with her left hand as her right hand plucks a kalimba placed on the guitar’s body. Her feet, clad in tap shoes, keep rhythm on a mic’d wooden board placed under her. Even with all limbs in play, it’s mind boggling that the melodic and percussive sounds that emerge are made by just one musician, playing in real time. With her ambidextrous and pedidextrous, multi-instrumental techniques of her own making and influences ranging from video games to West African griots subverting the predominantly white male canon of fingerstyle guitar, Yasmin Williams is truly a guitarist for the new century…

Austrian guitarist Wolfgang Muthspiel makes his ECM leader debut with Driftwood, a trio album of subtlety and depth featuring renowned US jazz players Larry Grenadier and Brian Blade. Muthspiel – who recently made his first ECM appearance on Travel Guide as a member of a cooperative trio with fellow guitarists Ralph Towner and Slava Grigoryan – has enjoyed long, productive musical friendships live and on record with both Grenadier and Blade, leading to a sense of telepathic interplay on Driftwood.