Robin Holcomb - The Goodnight Loving Trail
from 52 Weeks Of Downloads by Wayne Horvitz
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Today is the final download of the week. 52 Tuesdays of free downloads during my 60th year, which ends this Thursday.
I promised a new track, something previously unheard or unpublished. What I intended to do was create a first draft of the electronic music portion of my project 21 Pianos (www.waynehorvitz.com/projects/21-pianos/). Instead I have decided to keep working on it and publish on my 61st birthday, September 1st, as a way to wrap the whole thing up.
I arrived in Minneapolis to begin my 3 plus weeks in Minnesota - dragging a very strange piano around the state and trying to convince as many pianists as possible to give the thing a whirl. With my son Lowell, we spent 3 days driving from Seattle, and a lot of that time we had the iPod on shuffle mode, and would challenge each other to figure out what was playing.
When the track that I am posting today came up, Lowell immediately said “mom”. Recognizing her incredibly unique voice isn’t exactly challenging. But my first reaction was, “My god, how beautiful, I wish I had posted it." It is both ironic and somewhat fitting that I end this year of downloads with a track that I neither wrote, nor played on, though I did have a hand in producing it. For that matter Robin didn’t write it either, it is the Utah Philips song entitled, “The Goodnight Loving Trail” from Rockabye. It is also fitting, as I sit in my friend’s house in Minneapolis, that a lot of the tracks were recorded in this town for this CD, including the Steele Singers (www.thesteelesmusic.com) on The Natural World, Help a Man, and When I Stop Crying. On this track we are joined by a harmonica player, Bruce Kurnow (www.brucekurnow.com), whom we had never met before the session and haven’t seen since, but he sure plays great.
The blog for 21 Pianos is now live. Watch as I drag this thing around, there are videos and pictures and recordings, and some funny stuff along the way.
21pianos.com
As always, I hope you enjoy the music.
I promised a new track, something previously unheard or unpublished. What I intended to do was create a first draft of the electronic music portion of my project 21 Pianos (www.waynehorvitz.com/projects/21-pianos/). Instead I have decided to keep working on it and publish on my 61st birthday, September 1st, as a way to wrap the whole thing up.
I arrived in Minneapolis to begin my 3 plus weeks in Minnesota - dragging a very strange piano around the state and trying to convince as many pianists as possible to give the thing a whirl. With my son Lowell, we spent 3 days driving from Seattle, and a lot of that time we had the iPod on shuffle mode, and would challenge each other to figure out what was playing.
When the track that I am posting today came up, Lowell immediately said “mom”. Recognizing her incredibly unique voice isn’t exactly challenging. But my first reaction was, “My god, how beautiful, I wish I had posted it." It is both ironic and somewhat fitting that I end this year of downloads with a track that I neither wrote, nor played on, though I did have a hand in producing it. For that matter Robin didn’t write it either, it is the Utah Philips song entitled, “The Goodnight Loving Trail” from Rockabye. It is also fitting, as I sit in my friend’s house in Minneapolis, that a lot of the tracks were recorded in this town for this CD, including the Steele Singers (www.thesteelesmusic.com) on The Natural World, Help a Man, and When I Stop Crying. On this track we are joined by a harmonica player, Bruce Kurnow (www.brucekurnow.com), whom we had never met before the session and haven’t seen since, but he sure plays great.
The blog for 21 Pianos is now live. Watch as I drag this thing around, there are videos and pictures and recordings, and some funny stuff along the way.
21pianos.com
As always, I hope you enjoy the music.
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from 52 Weeks Of Downloads,
track released August 31, 2016
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Wayne Horvitz
Wayne Horvitz is a composer, pianist and electronic musician. In addition to his own work, he is known for his work with Butch Morris, Robin Holcomb, John Zorn, Bobby Previte, Skerik, Bill Frisell, Sara Schoenbeck, Ron Miles, Peggy Lee, and William Parker just to name a few. ... more
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