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American Primitive

Bill Shute & Lisa Null: American Primitive (Green Linnet SIF 1025)

American Primitive
Bill Shute & Lisa Null

Green Linnet SIF 1025 (LP, USA, 1980)
Folk-Legacy Records CD-137 (CD, USA, 2007)

 Bill Shute & Lisa Null: American Primitive (Folk-Legacy CD-137 1025)

Recorded, mixed and mastered at Golden East Recording Studios, New Canaan, Connecticut;
Sound engineer: Don Wade;
Produced by Bill Shute and Lisa Null;
Cover illustration by Peter Bellamy;
Design by Carla Frey

Musicians

Lisa Null: vocals [1-3, 5-12], second guitar [6, 9], dulcimer [12];
Bill Shute: guitar [1-2, 4-9, 11-12];
Peter Bellamy: chorus [1, 9];
Anthea Bellamy: chorus [1];
Debby McClatchy: chorus [1];
Claudia Schmidt: dulcimer [2], chorus [3, 9], vocal harmony [12];
Saul Broudy: harmonica [2, 6, 11], chorus [3, 6];
Leo Kretzner: chorus [3];
Todd Purcell: chorus [3, 6], vocal harmony [7];
Tom Conger: electric bass [5-6, 8, 11-12];
Ken Bloom: Northumbrian small pipes [5], rhythm guitar [11], clarinet [11]

Tracks

Side 1

  1. If He’s Gone, Let Him Go (Roud 6527) (3.05)
  2. Powder River (Roud 11076) / Carrie’s Gone to Kansas City (3.30)
  3. Only Remembered (Roud 7557) (3.27)
  4. La Bastringue (1.15)
  5. Remember the Poor (Roud 1121) (3.58)
  6. Santa Fe Trail (Roud 5096) (5.28)

Side 2

  1. Work in the Mines (3.45)
  2. The Cruel Mother (Roud 9; Child 20; G/D 2:193; TYG 73) (3.03)
  3. Bonnie Light Horseman (Roud 1185; G/D 8:1584; Henry H122a) (2.30)
  4. Erin’s Green Shore (Roud 280; Laws Q27) (2.41)
  5. Livin’ Next to the Soil (2.50)
  6. Virginia’s Alders (4.05)

All tracks trad. except
Track 3 words Horatius Bonar, music Ira D. Sankey;
Track 11 Everett I. Billie Hughes