In listining unfettered finally to STEVE SUFFET'S CD (which I played some bqckup banjo tracks on ) a few things come to mind.

There is a good choice of songs, many traditional many new. Steve writes in the folk idiom, and that's good to see. And you can tell that Steve has an amazing interest in history and politics and understands that none of that can be seperated from music.You will find in this CD the most contraversial subjects mixed with sentiment and pure history and folklore.

Most of all though I was struck with how well Steves enthusiasum comes out in the tracks. It really is contagous. And although this is far from a slickly produced nuevo folk album, there are more then a few reasons to really care about this new release.

This CD is in the the idiom of pure humanity.It is done by Steve Suffet who has been a high school history and special ed teacher, will always be a political activist, and has loved traditional folk music all his life. At age 58 Steve puts out a CD.He includes many friends.
This is not smooth Vanilla Ice Cream, you must decide which of these rough home made musical flavors you like the best.But it's great stuff!!!

Eric Levine
Folkdoctor