The specific essence these tracks share is difficult to define, but I hope that gathered together they’ll do that for me. Let’s pound our heels into the floorboards until we leave our mark, clap the day’s work’s dirt off our hands and scrub the rust from our joints; dance until the eave-dust rains down on whatever’s below us. Folk music from and for hard-beating hearts.
00:00. Amps for Christ – “Branches” from The People at Large (5 Rue Christine, 2004)
02:11. Exuma – “Damn Fool” from Exuma II (Mercury, 1970)
05:53. Scatter – “Alternations of Pasture and Urban Conurban” from Surprising Sing Stupendous Love (Cenotaph Audio, 2004)
10:24. Holy Modal Rounders – “Bound to Lose” from The Holy Modal Rounders (Prestige, 1964)
14:39. Megafaun – “Gather, Form & Fly” from Gather, Form & Fly (Hometapes, 2009)
18:56. The Woes – “The Secret” from Heaven Knows (self-released, 2009)
22:57. Drakkar Sauna – “How to Approach an Accident Victim” from Rover (Marriage, 2004)
26:20. Big Blood – “…Is All We Have” from Dark Country Magic (Don’t Trust the Ruin, 2010)
31:19. Peter Stampfel – “Oomalooma Messy Dessy” from Dook of the Beatniks (PFAM, 2009)
34:53. The Ebony Hillbillies – “Cream” [Prince cover] from 5 Miles from Town (EH Music, 2017)
Noise Not Music 