Various - Wayfaring Strangers: Lonesome Heroes (CD)

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No common ancestral folkie - no mercurial Fahey or lilting Joni - makes a fitting a touchstone to this third Wayfaring Strangers installment. These Lonesome Heroes are linked instead by mood: the turn of a strange phrase, a piano oddly mic'd, the sound of a room, both its guitar and man falling perfectly out of tune. For these somber, dark, and meditative troubadours, we opened up space for everything between a shambling revisit of some dusted Highway 61 capillary and a blue afternoon gone black. Each traveler tracked here took first steps out of his own Nowhere Special. Some made stops in common, but none ever honestly intersected, and each recording thus owes its sound to a divergent time, method, and reason. From back-porch singer-songwriters who never played a single professional gig to those dragged off stage only by years, these sung tales were mostly privately pressed, privately created, and intended for the most private of audiences: those kindred lonely few who listened along the way. 

1 Jim Schoenfeld - Before
2 Jim Ransom - It's So Profound
3 Poor Richard - As I Walk
4 Tucker Zimmerman - No Love Lost
5 Kieran White - Hummingbirds
6 Les Moore - Ooh Pah Do Pah Do
7 Rob Carr - R.N.B. II
8 Jack Hardy - The Tailor
9 George Cromarty - Little Children
10 Jay Bolotin - Dear Father
11 Tony Trosley - Deep Night
12 Roger Lewis - Autumn
13 Tim Ward - Good Morning
14 David Kauffman - Kiss Another Day Goodbye
15 John Villemonte - I Am The Moonlight
16 Bob Brown - Close Of The Day
17 Robb Kunkel - O'Light