thread: 2006-09-25 : Music blogging: Dog songs 2
On 2006-09-26, sammy wrote:
Hard Times is my favorite Stephen Foster song. Even better than "Camptown Races," which my mother used to whistle to get her cats to come to her. No, seriously. (Her current cats aren't so old-timey.)
The first time I heard Hard Times it was as performed by eastmountainsouth, who do a nice job with it. I recommend them: the arrangements are modern (and their producer is Mitchell Froom!), but a lot of the songs have a distinctly traditional feel to them.
I don't know Slaid Cleaves, but I'm going to have to check him out now.
