Now and Then: Folk Songs for the 21st Century

by Alex de Grassi

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Eric Kristof Alex is my favorite guitarist. After listening to him for the past 31 years, I've finally started to learn how to PLAY his music -- so happy to add this album to my collection and to begin learning it on the guitar. Favorite track: Streets of Laredo.

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1.	Single Girl 04:28	buy track
2.	Swing Low Sweet Chariot 02:33	buy track
3.	Sweet William 03:38	buy track
4.	Saint James Infirmary 03:50	buy track
5.	Shortnin' Bread 03:36	buy track
6.	Bury Me Not 03:00	buy track
7.	When Johnny Comes Marching Home 03:58	buy track
8.	Streets of Laredo 03:52	buy track
9.	Hushabye 04:04	buy track
10.	Lay This Body Down 03:52	buy track
11.	Oh Susanna 05:47	buy track

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I have arranged these traditional melodies to reflect
the musical idioms of today's multicultural landscape, and to tell a few American stories whose threads reach through time to unite the present with the past.”

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released February 17, 2010

produced by Alex de Grassi
recorded by Alex de Grassi and Neal Harris
mastered by Neal Harris at Affinity Music
Michael Manring plays bass on Oh Susanna
Joe Craven plays percussion on Oh Susanna and Hushabye

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Alex de Grassi Redwood Valley, California

Born in Japan, raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Alex ditched the trumpet for guitar at the age of 13 and immersed himself in American and British folk and blues traditions and later studied jazz and classical guitar. He has since emerged as a widely acclaimed
innovator and virtuoso of acoustic guitar, fusing a variety of traditions into a highly
orchestrated sound. ... more

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