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Golden Willow Tree
(Fossil 1504)
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Released May 18, 2004
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Here you have for your amusement & edification a collection of banjo tunes, ballads and prairie serenades. Rivers run through it and birds fly above it while life's indelible issues persist. The willow tree is made of roots & branches - the roots solid in the past, drinking from deep hidden waters while the branches are ever-spreading, shaped by wind & weather. So am I - planted here with my feet on the ground and my head in the sky, stretching my limbs once again to share the music that both feeds me and is from me in this season.
THE SONGS:
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sample" to listen]
1. The Last Of June clawhammer banjo instrumental [mp3
sample]
2. Papa Caught A Catfish vocal, guitar [mp3
sample]
3. Sally Goodin In The Alley With Sugar In The Gourd * clawhammer banjo
w/ vocal [mp3
sample]
4. Spoon River And You vocal, guitar [mp3
sample]
5. Speed The Plow * guitar instrumental [mp3
sample]
6. Ruben. ** vocal, clawhammer banjo [mp3
sample]
7. The Golden Willow Tree * vocal [mp3
sample]
8. Banjo ala Turk clawhammer banjo instrumental [mp3
sample]
9. The Bird's Alphabet vocal [mp3
sample]
10. Noe's Dove vocal, clawhammer banjo [mp3
sample]
11. Ride Away Easy vocal, guitar [mp3
sample]
12. Crossing The Ohio guitar instrumental [mp3
sample]
13. Study War No More * vocal, guitar [mp3
sample]
All songs written by Joel Mabus except
* traditional, arranged and adapted by Joel Mabus
** traditional melody arranged with new lyrics by Joel Mabus
All songs Fingerboard Music, BMI
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