Anne Price
Folksinger
A Few More Miles to Go
The 15 tracks span many genres of traditional and contemporary folk music – old traditional ballads of love and death, funny songs about bugs, chocolate, landlords, and egotism, songs about cowboys, hard times, traveling, and strip mining. The title comes from a phrase in Slowing Down, a song about the challenges and joys of growing older.
Track List
1. The Trumpet Vine (by Kate Wolf)
2. Going Down to Tampa (traditional)
3. John Randolph (traditional)
4. Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie (traditional)
5. Yucky Bugs (by Dan MacArthur)
6. Black Waters (by Jean Ritchie)
7. The Keys of Canterbury (traditional)
8. Slowing Down (by Anne Price)
9. Chocolate (by Joanne Davis)
10. Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key (by Woody Guthrie & Billy Bragg)
11. Lonesome Dove (traditional)
12. My Autobiography (by Janis Ian)
13. The Faucets Are Dripping (by Malvina Reynolds)
14. People Like You (by Si Kahn)
15. Sing About These Hard Times (by Peggy Seeger)
Vocal or instrumental accompaniment on various songs provided by Bruce Markow, Robin Greenstein, Barry Kornhauser, Eric Levine, Steve Suffet, Joel Landy, and Evy Mayer. Recorded, edited, mixed, and mastered by Ray Korona. Photography by Robert Corwin. Graphic design by Christina Cunningham.
Now also available from Village Records
"As adept with contemporary-folk styles as with traditional repertoire, Anne Price’s latest CD - & her 1st with Village Records! – is a veritable model of folk purity. As a 30+ year veteran of the fabled NYC Folk scene, Anne tackles such contemporary giants as Kate Wolf (The Trumpet Vine), Janis Ian (My Autobiography) & Jean Ritchie (Black Waters) with the same masterful interpretive skills as she brings to traditional songs (e.g., The Keys of Canterbury, Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie). Her cover of Billy Bragg & Wilco’s (Mermaid Avenue) Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key is particularly effective. Whether performed a capella or with a small combo, the 15 songs on ‘A Few More Miles To Go’ add up to an excellent representation of folk’s evolving heritage. Anne Price’s 4th CD may end up being your 1st by her, but probably not your last."
This CD is "the kind you take to a quiet nook (a shady place in a warm back yard fits nicely), lean back, close your eyes and revel in the deep pleasure of listening to fine songs presented by an outstanding singer with an extraordinarily lovely voice."
Faith Petric for The Folknik