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American Primitive

Bill Shute & Lisa Null: American Primitive (Green Linnet SIF 1025)

American Primitive
Bill Shute & Lisa Null

Green Linnet SIF 1025 (LP, USA, 1980)
Folk-Legacy Records CD-137 (CD, USA, 2007)

 Bill Shute & Lisa Null: American Primitive (Folk-Legacy CD-137 1025)

Recorded, mixed and mastered at Golden East Recording Studios, New Canaan, Connecticut;
Sound engineer: Don Wade;
Produced by Bill Shute and Lisa Null;
Cover illustration by Peter Bellamy;
Design by Carla Frey

Musicians

Lisa Null: vocals [1-3, 5-12], second guitar [6, 9], dulcimer [12];
Bill Shute: guitar [1-2, 4-9, 11-12];
Peter Bellamy: chorus [1, 9];
Anthea Bellamy: chorus [1];
Debby McClatchy: chorus [1];
Claudia Schmidt: dulcimer [2], chorus [3, 9], vocal harmony [12];
Saul Broudy: harmonica [2, 6, 11], chorus [3, 6];
Leo Kretzner: chorus [3];
Todd Purcell: chorus [3, 6], vocal harmony [7];
Tom Conger: electric bass [5-6, 8, 11-12];
Ken Bloom: Northumbrian small pipes [5], rhythm guitar [11], clarinet [11]

Tracks

Side 1Side 2
  1. If He's Gone, Let Him Go (Roud 6527) (3.05)
  2. Powder River (Roud 11076) / Carrie's Gone to Kansas City (3.30)
  3. Only Remembered (Roud 7557) (3.27)
  4. La Bastringue (1.15)
  5. Remember the Poor (Roud 1121) (3.58)
  6. Santa Fe Trail (Roud 5096) (5.28)
  1. Work in the Mines (3.45)
  2. The Cruel Mother (Roud 9; Child 20; G/D 2:193; TYG 73) (3.03)
  3. Bonnie Light Horseman (Roud 1185; G/D 8:1584; Henry H122a) (2.30)
  4. Erin's Green Shore (Roud 280; Laws Q27) (2.41)
  5. Livin' Next to the Soil (2.50)
  6. Virginia's Alders (4.05)

All tracks trad. except
Track 3 words Horatius Bonar, music Ira D. Sankey;
Track 11 Everett I. Billie Hughes