Music CD - The Klezmatics: Wonder Wheel

	Music CD: Wonder Wheel Artist: The Klezmatics List Price: $17.98 Our Price: $10.67 Your Save: $ 7.31 ( 41% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Jmg / Jewish Music
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Tracks: 1. Come When I Call You 2. Mermaid's Avenue 3. Headdy Down 4. Gonna Get Through This World 5. Pass Away 6. Holy Ground 7. Goin' Away To Sea 8. From Here On In 9. Wheel Of Life 10. Condorbird 11. Orange Blossom Ring 12. Heaven
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0857764001336 Label: Jmg / Jewish Music Manufacturer: Jmg / Jewish Music Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Jmg / Jewish Music Release Date: 2006-07-25 Studio: Jmg / Jewish Music
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: open your ears Comment: Interesting blend of Klezmer and a country approach. I feel Woody would be very happy. Customer Rating: Summary: winning combo Comment: The combination of Woody Guthrie's words and the Klezmatics' music makes for a cd that is being heard over and over again in our house. Customer Rating: Summary: Awesome CD! Comment: We love this CD! We bought one from Lisa Gutkin, one of the members of the Klezmatics, at a local gig, and then proceeded to buy a bunch more on Amazon to give as gifts to our friends. The album is *genius* and just won a Grammy! Congratulations to the Klezmatics and to Nora Guthrie for enabling this project to happen! Customer Rating: Summary: beautiful Comment: This album is absolutely incredible... it takes you on an amazing journey, and covers the range of human emotion. Plus, nominated for a grammy! Customer Rating: Summary: Woody would be dancing the hora!! Comment: The Klezmatics have made a superb record here. I highly recommend this CD to anyone with an interest in Woody Guthrie's Jewish connections and inspirations. Fans of the Klezmatics will love it as well... More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: At first glance, the wedding of newly discovered lyrics by Okie folk legend Woody Guthrie to melodies by the Klezmatics--a band that blends the sounds and images of Yiddish culture with world music and American traditions--seems incongruous, at best. But there is method in the madness of executive producer and Woody's daughter, Nora Guthrie. In the 1940s, the Guthries family lived in the heavily Jewish borough of Brooklyn, where their visitors included not only such activist pals as Pete Seeger, but Yiddish poet Aliza Greenblatt--Guthrie's mother-in-law--who shared his devotion to message and idealism. The troubadour's dusted-off words, particularly on "Mermaid Avenue," show his constant awareness and appreciation of Jewish culture, as well as his predictable fixation with the fleetingness of life in a time of war ("Pass Away," "Goin' Away to Sea"). Yet there is a new gentleness and renewed love of poetry in many of these pieces, especially in the closing song, "Heaven," which reflects Guthrie's continuing social consciousness, i.e., labor struggles and the homeless. The Klezmatics, on their first English-language album, push Woody's folkie form into the 21st century, with melodies built around Middle Eastern or Slavic frameworks--put to best use on the delicate lullaby "Heddy Down" and the affirming "Wheel of Life." --Alanna Nash