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The Celebrated Renaissance Band/ "REAL LIVE American Music"
ALBUM DESCRIPTION
Totem Pointe is pleased and proud to present "REAL LIVE American Music",
a retrospective of the music of the Celebrated Renaissance Band. All of
the vintage tracks on this CD have been digitally re-mastered, most from
tapes of a CRB concert at Boston University in 1974.
The Celebrated Renaissance Band (CRB) and its affiliates, Finkelstein and Katz and the Raggedy Grass String Band toured widely during the 1960's and 1970's. Their work represents a significant era in the American Folk Process. A time when artists working with traditional music began to experiment with electric instruments and pop music techniques. Groups like the CRB, The Grateful Dead and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, to name but a few, explored and expanded the boundaries of American tradition-based music and music making. Although the CRB's venture into electric instrumentation lasted only a few years, the unique music they made, which they dubbed "Psychedelic Old Time" music, gained them a national following.
In 1969, the CRB single "Vibration 2.2" topped at least one regional pop charts. The composition is considered by some to be a classic example of folk-psychedelic music of the 1960's. The vinyl version is a collectible.
"Vibration 2.2" was reissued in 2000 by Arf-Arf Records on "Buzz Buzz Buzzzzzz Vol. 1". This compilation CD, "dedicated to the fine art of the psychedelic instrumental" includes works by the Royal Guardsmen and the Challengers and others. This album, 'REAL LIVE American Music" captures the excitement of the Celebrated Renaissance Band's live performances, with their lively tradition-based repertoire and cross-generational appeal, and also presents their "Psychedelic Old Time" masterpiece, "Vibration 2.2" (Track 14).
We invite you to enjoy the unique and durable music of the Celebrated Renaissance Band.
A Totem Pointe Record TPM1472 |
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