LoginComplete Folkway Recordings
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When a 47-year-old stonemason living in the Bahamas met with writer Sam Charters and his tape recorder, he couldn't have known the history he would make. These field recordings have since inspired, shaped, and boggled a generation of acoustic guitarists. You can hear Spence's intricate and polyrhythmic percussive style in players as diverse as Ry Cooder and Leo Kottke. Although only nine tracks long, this CD is seminal folk blues, and includes Spence's improvisational, almost Cubist, reworkings of traditional, mostly spiritual, tunes: "Brown Skin Gal," "Face to Face I Shall Know Him," "Lord Is My Shephe
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Manufacturer: Smithsonian Folkways
Release date: 16 January 1995
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0093074006627 UPC: 093074006627
Release date: 16 January 1995
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0093074006627 UPC: 093074006627
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