View basket “Sister” has been added to your basket. Troubadour Dorothy Carter SKU: DC908 Barcode: 0781484090816 26.00 £26.00 Genre: Folk Label: Drag City Released Date: 30th August 2024 Buying Format: 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Drag City present the first official reissue of Dorothy Carter’s 1976 album debut, her folk-music exegesis, ‘Troubadour’. In her lifetime, Dorothy, a self-made traveling musician and folklorist, brought forth masterful evocations on hammered dulcimer and psaltery from a myriad of times and places. Her music was played, produced and sold outside of that era’s mainstream music distribution. It’s been 20 years since Dorothy’s passing – but thanks to last year’s reissue of her second album, ‘Waillee Waillee’ (1978), and this edition of ‘Troubadour’, her music is surging forward ever more powerfully. 2035 will mark the centennial of her birth; the mythos and arcana she pursued in relative obscurity is now inspiring an audience larger than Dorothy ever knew. At the time of that centennial, some will, no doubt, look back to the good old days of the early 20s, when they first heard her music. Others, like ‘Troubadour’ reissue producer Eric Demby, can look back to a childhood spent off the grid: the early 1970s in rural Maine, and later on, in Boston – wherever his freewheeling father brought the family, at one point or another, there too was Dorothy, as she lived and breathed, playing her hammered dulcimer. Her presence was always friendly and warm, yet ‘ethereal’ – her mind far away, her focus seemingly deep within the music, the instruments and the world from which they’d come. As for the world from which she came: following a childhood spent around New England, Dorothy travelled abroad for her higher education. She found herself in the late 1950s in Mexico, intent on becoming a nun at the Cuernavaca monastery. Instead, she fell in with a group of expats including David Demby (Eric’s father), his soon-to-be-wife Constance (her moment of New Age musical breakthrough still three decades hence) and aspiring artist and musician Bob Rutman. These were her people, looking for their place in the world. From Mexico City, they made it back up to New York, to Greenwich Village, where Rutman opened an art and ‘happenings’ gallery while Dorothy delved deep into the mystic things of traditional music and sounds, living the bohemian life while bringing up two dearly loved children with her itinerant lifestyle. As the 60s became the 70s, Eric recalls, “She was always coming from somewhere or on her way somewhere else, transporting instruments and folklore from Eastern Europe, Appalachia, and beyond that felt ancient and unearthed, which she would channel into our universe.” The early 70s found everyone living up on the farm up in rural Maine; it was here that Rutman, Constance, Dorothy and some others formed Central Maine Power Company, a troupe of almost feral improvisers playing on a combination of self-made and found instruments, with live video feedback to boot. Self-documentation wasn’t on their minds; simply being was enough. And so they were for several years, playing at planetariums around the northeast and even MoMA and the nascent World Trade towers. In 1976, Dorothy had been playing music for decades, but had yet to record any of it. That year, she went to Cambridge’s Studio B with Rutman and friend Steve Baer at the console. Constance and Sally Hilmer accompanied her. The performances captured there were released later that year as Troubadour. In addition to hammered dulcimer and psaltery, Dorothy played the flute and sang. She chose songs from all over: Appalachian folk tunes, old and ancient psalms and hymns, Scottish, Irish, French and Israeli melodies, with a few of her own songs for good measure. The songs flow together effortlessly under Dorothy and friends’ hands in a syncretic space that we can identify today as a garden of world musics – a highly energized, alternately meditative and proselytic recital whose vitality has only burgeoned in the decades since it appeared. As it should be – the music of Dorothy Carter is akin to a portal, linking her and us with the eternal. This edition of ‘Troubadour’ reproduces the original album package, adding an insert adorned with additional photos of Dorothy and her collection of instruments, as well as notes from Eric Demby exploring the era – his childhood – from a vantage point of some 50 years. This reissue is a long-held family dream come true, and it is dedicated in loving memory to Bob Rutman, Constance Demby, David Demby and Dorothy Carter. Artist Dorothy Carter Genre Folk Label Drag City Buying Options 1LP Format 1LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings Troubadour Song Binnorie Troubadour Songs on the Psaltery Make a Joyful Sound Lark in the Morning Balinderry Tree of Life Visiting Song The King of Glory The Morning Star Ukrainian Carol The Cuckoo Masquerade Shirt of Lace Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Folk View Product Quick View Tim Buckley I Can’t See You Folk | Demon Records | 12", EP/Mini Album Released 20th July 2018 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Tim Buckley I Can’t See You £22.00 Genre: Folk Label: Demon Records SKU: DEMREC294 Formats: 12", EP/Mini Album Released Date: 20th July 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Joan Baez The Debut Album Folk | 20TH CENTURY MASTERWORKS | 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 31st March 2023 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Joan Baez The Debut Album £17.00 Genre: Folk Label: 20TH CENTURY MASTERWORKS SKU: 350251 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 31st March 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Christy Moore The Christy Moore Collection Folk | Rhino | 1LP Released 17th June 2022 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Christy Moore The Christy Moore Collection £25.00 Genre: Folk Label: Rhino SKU: 0190296670183 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 17th June 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Bellowhead Broadside Folk | Navigator | 180g, 1LP, Includes CD Released 12th October 2012 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Bellowhead Broadside £16.00 Genre: Folk Label: Navigator SKU: NAVIGATOR073LP Formats: 180g, 1LP, Includes CD Released Date: 12th October 2012 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Yo-Yo Ma and Silk Road Ensemble Sing Me Home Folk | Music On Vinyl | 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 21st April 2023 £36.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Yo-Yo Ma and Silk Road Ensemble Sing Me Home £36.00 Genre: Folk Label: Music On Vinyl SKU: MOVCL025 Formats: 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 21st April 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Olivia Chaney Shelter Folk | Nonesuch | 1LP Released 15th June 2018 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Olivia Chaney Shelter £19.00 Genre: Folk Label: Nonesuch SKU: 0075597930535 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 15th June 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View Mabsant Trwy’R Weiar Folk | Sain | 1LP Released 12th August 2014 £5.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Mabsant Trwy’R Weiar £5.00 Genre: Folk Label: Sain SKU: NN71063 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 12th August 2014 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Sons Of Noel And Adrian Knots Folk | One Inch Badge | 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 20th September 2012 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Sons Of Noel And Adrian Knots £16.00 Genre: Folk Label: One Inch Badge SKU: OIB026 Formats: 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 20th September 2012 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Keywest Ordinary Superhero Folk | Marshall Records | 1LP Released 27th September 2019 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Keywest Ordinary Superhero £17.00 Genre: Folk Label: Marshall Records SKU: 0190296899836 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 27th September 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View John Kirkpatrick & Sue Harris The Rose Of Britain’s Isle Folk | Topic Records | 1LP Released 13th June 2014 £8.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations John Kirkpatrick & Sue Harris The Rose Of Britain’s Isle £8.00 Genre: Folk Label: Topic Records SKU: NN70112 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 13th June 2014 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket See more in Folk Start again
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