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Thread #55367   Message #945843
Posted By: GUEST,WPint
04-May-03 - 12:51 PM
Thread Name: Stories/Shanties of Hjalmar Rutzebeck
Subject: RE: Stories/Shanties of Hjalmar Rutzebeck
So YOU'RE the person who bought that album!

Don't blame it on me! The real blame (or credit, if that is due) goes to Clark Branson of California who found Hjalmar, taped the interviews, and financed the project. Mary, Marc and I just recorded the songs and read sections of the books. We were very young and inexperienced at making records at the time. I think we would have done things very differently now. Clark had a strange sense of humor (note the several out-takes of Mary goofing up the passage about "sea boots filling with water").
Since the LP was on Folkways, it should be possible to have a CD made. At least, that's what I hear about the Folkways catalogue.

Glad you found it and enjoyed it though.

William Pint