{"product_id":"nothing-but-green-willow-the-songs-of-mary-sands-and-jane-gentry-2","title":"Nothing But Green Willow: The Songs of Mary Sands and Jane Gentry","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe English-born folk song collector, musician and composer, Cecil\nSharp, collected songs in Appalachia between 1916-1918\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong several locations, he collected in Madison County, North Carolina, a\nremote county right on the Tennessee state line, that had a horrible history of\nviolence in the Civil War and was known to be clannish, remote.There, Sharp met\nsingers Jane Gentry and Mary Sands. They both contributed a significant and\nunusually high number of songs to his collection. Gentry contributed eighty and\nSands about twenty-five. Their versions are available through Sharp's books. The\nhouse where Gentry sang for Sharp is still there ('Sunnybank' in the town of Hot\nSprings). Some of ballads they contributed are among the best- know ones –\n'Pretty Saro,' 'Lord Franklin,' etc. Two women who nobody ever heard sing,\nunknowingly changed the course of folk music history.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring 2022, Martin Simpson and Thomm Jutz handpicked a selection of the\nGentry and Sands songs and arranged them for their two guitars. They then\ninvited six great UK folk singers to each sing one song, recording them here in the\nUK and six great Appalachian folk singers to record in Nashville.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe album features special guests, from the UK, Cara Dillon, Fay Hield, Seth\nLakeman, Angeline Morrison and Emily Portman and from the States, Dale Ann\nBradley, Sierra Hull, Justin Moses, Tim O'Brien, Tammy Rogers and Odessa\nSettles.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMartin Simpson is a world-renowned, multi-award-winning English folk singer,\nguitarist, banjo player and songwriter based in Sheffield, UK. Thomm Jutz is a\nGerman- born American singer, songwriter, producer and guitarist based in\nNashville, USA. This album is released on Topic Records, which celebrates its\n85th anniversary in 2024.\n\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Topic","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50393559990603,"sku":"2048574","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/714822046145_41ba5994_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726421305","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/products\/nothing-but-green-willow-the-songs-of-mary-sands-and-jane-gentry-2","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}