Wendy Grossman - The Last Trip Home '2024

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The Last Trip Home: Wendy Grossman wasn’t born to the music she does, but
she’s certainly steeped in it for the last half century. On this CD she
delivers a mixed-up baker’s dozen: five pedigreed British ballads, six
more contemporary ones from here and there, and a couple of instrumentals to
balance everything. Her strong voice and fine chops are true to the material,
new or old. Over-tracking on a few of the songs, she’s completely at home
on guitar, baritone guitar, banjo, autoharp and concertina.

Wendy Grossman is about as steeped in musical and ballad traditions from all
over as anyone is or could be. During her college years, she fell in with the
Cornell University Folk Song Club crowd, who were justly famous for being a very
serious bunch of Ballad and Old Time Music scholars, and for supporting one of
the liveliest ongoing music scenes, anywhere, ever. She is well grounded in the
breadth of all that.

She is a multi-instrumentalist on guitar, autoharp and squeezebox, going pro
from the mid-seventies to the mid-eighties. She issued one LP-record, Roseville
Fair, in 1980. She gave up touring (but not playing!)

She rarely writes songs. She doesn’t need to. The likes of Bill Steele,
Archie Fisher, Bill Staines, Stan Rogers and a host of other writer-singers have
done that for her. What she does do is unique, very clear arrangements of their
best ones. She knows how to handle the old Love Songs too, and betimes, makes up
‘just music’ of her own. All of that is represented here.

Tracklist:
1.01 - Wendy Grossman - The Last Trip Home (4:27) 
1.02 - Wendy Grossman - The Gold Ring (2:53) 
1.03 - Wendy Grossman - The Laird O Drum (4:18) 
1.04 - Wendy Grossman - The Wife of Usher's Well (2:43) 
1.05 - Wendy Grossman - South Wind (3:26) 
1.06 - Wendy Grossman - Mary Hamilton (4:13) 
1.07 - Wendy Grossman - Griselda's Waltz (4:24) 
1.08 - Wendy Grossman - Mominette (2:54) 
1.09 - Wendy Grossman - One, I Love (3:40) 
1.10 - Wendy Grossman - Queen Amang the Heather (3:54) 
1.11 - Wendy Grossman - The Jeannie C (4:40) 
1.12 - Wendy Grossman - The Surveillance Waltz (3:59) 
1.13 - Wendy Grossman - My Sweet Wyoming Home (3:58)

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