TANGLE EYE ALAN LOMAX'S SOUTHERN JOURNEY REMIXED ROUNDER/ZOE

From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: February 27, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

It's surprising that nobody has reworked Alan Lomax's historic roots-music chronicles before this. Lucky for us, Tangle Eye got there first. The group's debut is a collection of ingenious remakes and remixes of Lomax's field recordings from the 1940s through 1960s. Borrowing a name from Walter Jackson's "tangle eye blues," Rounder Records producer Scott Billington and fellow producer/engineer Steve Reynolds attracted impressive talent to the project, including Henry Butler, Tony Trischka, Corey Harris, and George Porter Jr. The New Orleans-based crew deftly turned a cappella chestnuts into ...

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