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Thread #155661 Message #3664047
Posted By: GUEST,Fred McCormick
27-Sep-14 - 06:03 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: There's Anger in the Land (D West, H West
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Anger in the Land, not by PP&M or Odetta
Mrrzy. If you've never heard of Hedy West, then I strongly recommend that you get an earful, for she was an absolutely wonderful singer.
I can particularly recommend two compilations:-
Hedy West Accompanying Herself on the 5-String Banjo Plus Volume 2. Vanguard VCD 71924. The strange title comes about because they represent two LPs which Hedy recorded for Vanguard in the early sixties.
Ballads & Songs From the Southern Appalachians. Fellside FECD 241. That's a double CD which reprises three albums which she cut for Topic in the early/mid sixties; Albums, Old Times and Hard Times: Pretty Saro and other Appalachian Ballads: Ballads.
The Fellside is, for my money, the most wonderful of the two, but you can find Anger in the Land on the Vanguard.