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01 -- The Texas Hambone Blues.mp3 |
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"Great Northern is an exciting new string band, made up of five innovative traditionalists. They have kept the guitar, bass and mandolin, but replaced the fiddle with a cello and five-string viola, making them the foremost practitioners of the low and lonesome sound. Great Northern has strong bluesy vocals, original instrumentals with tight arrangements, interesting cover material and a solid rhythmic feel, all the elements that make up a great band!" -John Reischman |
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01. Crazy Heart |
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Low Lonesome has been awarded the 1999 “Wilf Carter Western Canadian Award” by the Great North Wind Radio Program in Ontario. See reviews of Low Lonesome from Kim Bates, of Greenman Review, who says, “I can recommend this disc on the strength of the instrumentals alone.” Reviewer Timothy Keene, of Rambles Magazine, says, “If you are a bluegrass fan, a southerner by location or heart, or a fan of good folk music, I recommend this album for your library.” |
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01 -- Little Bird.mp3 |
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"This is an absolutely fascinating and captivating project full of new sounds, cool tunes, solid playing ... and some of the most imaginative arrangements I've heard in a long time. The use of the cello & viola really makes this CD - it gives these songs a whole different (and wonderful slant)."-Dave Higgs, Bluegrass Breakdown, WPLN-FM, Nashville "I'd put this up against pretty much any of the recent bluegrass releases I've heard in the past year, and expect it to come out ahead...If you've not heard of this Vancouver group, now is the time to remedy that situation." -Greenman Review "This is a collection of songs that every fan of acoustic music of any stripe will listen to again and again." -Dan "Buck" Buckner, KGNU-FM, Boulder, Colorado.
Sarah Meador, a reviewer for Rambles magazine, in her comments on Great Northern 3, speaks of the "gentle undertones of this energetic, good-natured album", and says, |
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Members of the band are: Doug Thordarson - 5-string viola, vocals Tim Eccles - guitar, mandolin, slide guitar, lead vocals Brian Samuels - cello, 5-string cello, chromatic dulcimer, vocals Craig McGregor - mandolin, guitar Iain MacIntyre - banjo, guitar Paul Bergman - bass
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