Cluck & Croon
Release Date: April 5th, 2013
1. My Ribbons
2. Out of the Kitchen
4. Shady Groove
5. Ain't Misbehavin'
6. Alaska
7. In the Pines
8. Pride of the Prairie
9. Bad As I Can Be
10. Cluck Old Hen
11. Til You're Dead
Sodbusters
1. Sweet Thing
2. Garden Gate
3. The Lame Soldier4. Sodbusters
5. The Colorado Trail
6. The Falling of the Pine
7. Carried Away
8. The Little Ole
9. The Cold Hard Ground
10. Longest Winter
11. Don't Let Her Love Go
Music from Sodbusters was featured in the Smithsonian's Shared Harmonies Program in July of 2012.
Reviews of Sodbusters:
Dreamer
1. Oh Moon
2. The Balcony3. Righteous
4. Fiddle Tune #4
5. Long Road Home
6. Lost Lady
7. Stronger Man
8. Dreamer
9. Hold On to Her
Dreamer was featured on CDbaby.com's 2010 Editor's Picks!
Further information on folk songs from Sodbusters
In the fall of 2009, Jami Lynn began research for her undergraduate thesis at The University of South Dakota. Long afternoons in museums and archives across the state upturned a unique collection of South Dakota folk songs and stories. While that body of research makes up a separate set of songs, a few tunes contained in her thesis are also included in Sodbusters (along with a few folk songs which are not related to the upper Midwest). Tracks 5,6, and 8 from Sodbusters turned up during Jami Lynn's folk research. The resulting thesis, "Early American Folk Music of the Upper Midwest" can be viewed in its entirety here.
The Colorado Trail (Track 5) is included in John and Alan Lomax's American Folk Songs and Ballads, published in 1934. It was collected from a dying Montana cowboy in a hospital in Duluth, MN.
The Falling of the Pine (Track 6) is a ballad from the time when “square timber logging” was popular during the Golden Age of Lumbering in northern Minnesota. Sung by M. C. Dean of Virginia, Minnesota, “The Falling of the Pine” was collected by Franz Rickaby between the years of 1918 and 1925, and is included in Ballads and Songs of a Shanty-boy, published in 1926.
The Little Ole (Track 8) is based on Hans Christian Anderson’s Norwegian folk tale of the little man who brings dreams to children. The music and text, translated by S. D. Rodholm, is included in “Harmony Around the World,” a South Dakota Extension Service pamphlet from the 1930s.
