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Jake Blount Transforms American Roots Music

Category: Health
Duration: 00:29:28
Publish Date: 2020-06-22 11:00:00
Description:

Jake Blount is a singer, fiddler, banjo player, and scholar of old time American music –he’s especially interested in the deep roots of the African-American music of the southeast, where his own family is from. And given that this is Pride month, it’s probably worth mentioning he’s a board member of the group Bluegrass Pride as well. Jake has just released his first full-length album, called Spider Tales – a reference to Anansi, the West African trickster figure who takes the shape of a spider. The album is full of unusual old tunes as well as new takes on songs you might think you knew well. Jake joins us -remotely, of course-  to play a few of them for this edition of the Soundcheck Podcast. 

Set list: 

    "Where Did You Sleep Last Night" "We’re Going to Hunt the Buffalo" "Roustabout"

"Where Did You Sleep Last Night":"We’re Going to Hunt the Buffalo":  "Roustabout": 

Spider Tales by Jake Blount

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