Nathan Salsburg - Avos '2011

Tracks list

       Albums of guitar duets are rare. Albums of guitar duets featuring one
American and one Englishman, synthesizing their geo-graphically specific
approaches in a collection of new compositions, are rarer. Not since Stefan
Grossman and John Renbourn's partnerships of the 1970s has there been such a
happy reconciliation of Merrie Old England and the good old USA, in which
baroque meets the blues, music-hall steps out to ragtime, and Benjamin Britten
sits down with Blind Blake.James Elkington moved from London to Chicago around
the turn of the millennium and has since released a string of albums as leader
of The Zincs for Thrill Jockey Records. After dissolving the band in 2008,
Elkington has concentrated on acoustic, folk-tinged music with his band The
Horse's Ha (that he shares with Freakwater's Janet Bean).Nathan Salsburg is best
known as an archivist and producer for the Alan Lomax Archive, curator of the
Twos & Fews vernacularmusic imprint on Drag City Records, and host of the ''Root
Hog Or Die'' program on East Village Radio. He appears on Tompkins Square's
'Imaginational Anthem Volume 3' compilation, and produced a tribute album to EC
Ball, also on Tompkins Square. Elkington suggested a leap of faith into a
collaboration, despite the fact that the two had never previously played guitar
together. AVOS, then, hither and thither over several seasons, between a porch
in Louisville and a kitchen in Chicago, slowly took shape. Aptly, the name comes
from the Russian word for the confident approach to new situations, and the
faith that nothing tragic will occur once in them.

Tracklist:
1.01 - James Elkington, Nathan Salsburg - Hospitality (2:40)
1.02 - James Elkington, Nathan Salsburg - A Free Amft (3:06)
1.03 - James Elkington, Nathan Salsburg - Sedentary Song (2:12)
1.04 - Nathan Salsburg, James Elkington - Fez And Guinness (2:23)
1.05 - Nathan Salsburg, James Elkington - Romany Belle (2:57)
1.06 - Nathan Salsburg, James Elkington - Marjoram (2:09)
1.07 - Nathan Salsburg, James Elkington - Avos (2:06)
1.08 - Nathan Salsburg, James Elkington - Believer Field (3:37)
1.09 - Nathan Salsburg, James Elkington - The Blurring Cogs (2:42)
1.10 - Nathan Salsburg, James Elkington - Trois Poires (2:33)
1.11 - Nathan Salsburg, James Elkington - Straight Up And Down (2:38)
1.12 - Nathan Salsburg, James Elkington - The Queue Outside The Night Ministry
(2:39)
1.13 - Nathan Salsburg, James Elkington - Scarborough Fore And Aft (3:50) 

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