Description
Before Dylan, before Robert Zimmermann, there were ancestors, songwriters and bluesmen named Woody Guthrie, Hank Williams, Mississippi John Hurt, Blind Willie McTell… There were songs, too, that were transmitted from generation to generation, without any known author or accurate origins.
Haunted by these ghosts and in the company of a few connoisseurs – Wayne Standley, Don Cavalli, Moriba Koïta & Mama Rosin – we’ve dug into this not-so-distant past to assemble this collection of songs at once archaic and modern, that together compose a tale of love and relinquishment, seduction and addiction, crimes of passion, revenge, and desperate escapes.
One will encounter a bevy of fugitives, murderous lovers and highwaymen, righters of wrongs, deserted wives and husbands hooked on booze and gambling, a gang of exploited cowboys, an adulterous and proud woman, a kinky candy vendor, an inconsolable widower…
