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Indespensible folk selection

11/24/1998

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Anyone from the Mpls/St. Paul will be familiar with their song "Little potato," often played on the am public radio program. This album is a mixture of accoustical and vocal selections perfect for background music. Some of the songs are so outstanding that you may wear out the replay button on your CD. The last track on the album, Endless Chain, recounts the imagined conversations of quilts calling out their names as they flap on the clothesline, richly accompanied by varous strings and dulcimer, which builds to an amazing, layered climax of harmonies and words, much as if all the hands that created the quilts were all in the same room on a phenomenal quilting bee. I cannot properly do it justice, but if accoustical {and augmented} folk is your taste, this album is really worth buying. Mine gets played at least once a week and I've had it for years."

Withstanding the test of time

Glenna Green | McMinnville, OR USA | 05/29/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I've had this recording on cassette since some time in the 80s and everytime I return to it it breaks my heart with the beauty of the music and lyrics that examine the simple mysteries of life with a sweet, magical eloquence. It would be one of my "desert island" choices."