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The Harry Smith Project boxed set and DVD
Gavin Friday appears on the Hal Willner curated Harry Smith Project: Anthology American of Revisited 2-CD/2-DVD boxed set and the Harry Smith Project Live DVD, available separately. Both releases, in stores now, feature highlights from a series of Harry Smith tribute concerts staged in London, New York and Los Angeles by Hal Willner in 1999…
Read MoreGavin Friday – Fatal Flower Garden – lyrics
Fatal Flower Garden It rained, it poured, it rained so hard, It rained so hard all day, That all the boys in our school Came out to talk and play. They tossed their ball again so high, Then again so low, They tossed it into a flower garden And no one was allowed to go.…
Read MoreHarry Smith Tribute four-disc box set
Gavin Friday and Maurice Seezer’s When That Great Ship Went Down, and Fatal Flower Garden performed live at Hal Willner‘s Harry Smith Tribute nights in London, New York and Los Angeles between 1999 and 2001 are featured on a four-disc box set titled The Harry Smith Project: Anthology of American Folk Music Revisited, due October…
Read MoreL.A. Times: Different Strokes for Lovers of Folk
from LA Times, Saturday, April 28, 2001 POP BEAT Different Strokes for Lovers of Folk (Music) More than three dozen artists perform two eclectic, inspiring marathon shows celebrating the legacy of archivist Harry Smith. By ROBERT HILBURN, Times Pop Music Critic It’s hard to stage a winning concert when you start out with two strikes–even…
Read MoreHarry Smith’s Project Meltdown; Royal Festival Hall, London: Star collective pays homage to folk collector
WHO IS Harry Smith, and why would Bryan Ferry, Beth Orton, Nick Cave and others want to pay tribute to him? The films shown at the start of the evening show an old man in New York. But pictures from the Fifties, when he completed his epic Anthology of American Folk Music, show a sharply…
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