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It’s been 20 years since Dorothy’s passing — but thanks to last year’s reissue of her second album, \u003ci\u003eWaillee Waillee\u003c\/i\u003e (1978), and this edition of\u003ci\u003e Troubadour\u003c\/i\u003e, her music is surging forward ever more powerfully. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppalachian folk tunes, old and ancient psalms and hymns, Scottish, Irish, French and Israeli melodies, and original tunes flow together effortlessly in a hypnotic garden of eternal world musics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe vinyl edition reproduces the original album package, adding an insert adorned with additional photos of Dorothy and her collection of instruments, as well as notes from reissue producer Eric Demby exploring the era - his childhood - from a vantage point of some 50 years. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Drag City","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50386911396171,"sku":"2205208","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Troubadour_9a9569f5_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726328372"},{"product_id":"waillee-waillee","title":"Waillee Waillee","description":"\u003cp\u003eA joint release between \u003cstrong\u003ePalto Flats\u003c\/strong\u003e \u0026amp; \u003cstrong\u003ePutojefe Records\u003c\/strong\u003e. The first ever reissue of the work of American composer \u003cstrong\u003eDorothy Carter\u003c\/strong\u003e, master of the hammered dulcimer, zither, and other instruments of the hammer chord zither\/psalterium family.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA true musical vagabond, Dorothy was born in New York in 1935, though her spiritual pursuit of an expansive musical knowledge would take her to monasteries in Mexico, conservatories in France and London, and the founding of the Central Maine Power Music Company (CMPMC), with new-age \/ minimalist luminaries such as \u003cstrong\u003eConstance Demby\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eRobert Rutman\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDorothy Carter\u003c\/strong\u003e was many things - a virtuoso player, storyteller, historian of Celtic and Appalachian folk music, avid lifelong busker, avant-garde musician, and itinerant troubadour, laying a framework for music that existed both within and outside of standard folk idioms - never better represented than on her 1978 masterwork, \u003cem\u003eWaillee Wailee\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUnderscored by \u003cstrong\u003eBob Rutman\u003c\/strong\u003e's cavernous bowing of the steel cello, the richness of \u003cem\u003eWaillee Waillee\u003c\/em\u003e's sound produces an album unlike any other in her discography. In particular, its two side-ending pieces, \"\u003cem\u003eSummer Rhapsody\u003c\/em\u003e\" and \"\u003cem\u003eTree of Life\u003c\/em\u003e,\" glide with the shimmering filigree of hammered dulcimer and \u003cstrong\u003eDorothy Carter\u003c\/strong\u003e's ephemeral voice floating over \u003cstrong\u003eRutman\u003c\/strong\u003e's droning buzz of the steel cello.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe title track is one of her most enduring compositions, often performed in stripped-down versions throughout her career, and one of her sole recordings featuring a full band, with the contrapuntal interplay of tremulous flute, vibrating steel cello, bass, and drums.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShe counted musical colleagues as diverse as \u003cstrong\u003eConstance Demby\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eEinstürzende Neubauten\u003c\/strong\u003e, and \u003cstrong\u003eLaraaji\u003c\/strong\u003e, as well as her lifelong artistic partner and friend \u003cstrong\u003eBob Rutman\u003c\/strong\u003e, whose imprint is felt throughout the grooves of this record.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe master tapes for this recording were fortuitously discovered in \u003cstrong\u003eRutman\u003c\/strong\u003e's Berlin studio, many, many years later. 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