Barn Ballads, by Sean Donald

Barn Ballads

by Sean Donald

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1.	Cruel Mother 03:37	info	buy track
2.	Sheepstealers 02:33		buy track
3.	Dollar Bill Blues 04:19	info	buy track
4.	Fair Margaret and Sweet William 04:46	info	buy track
5.	Hard Time Killing Floor Blues 03:48	info	buy track
6.	Lady Gay 04:51	info	buy track
7.	The Month of January 04:04	info	buy track

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This series of songs were recorded mostly in the evenings on Cedar Down farm, in and around the barn. They are songs that I love to sing and play on my own and in a setting that I feel appropriate for the feel of the songs.

These recordings were recorded using a ZOOM H4N handheld field recorder. Many thanks to Zak Miller for the mastering.

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released January 1, 2014

I was so pleased to have a dear friend, Katie Peabody of Louieville, KC sing on a few of these recordings with me.

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Sean Donald Toronto, Ontario

The music Sean writes comes from a place of honesty and deep expression. Songs of the human experience, songs of love and loss, good times and hard, his range of sound encompass places of light and dark both familiar and unknown. Drawing from a background of folk music, he merges old roots with contemporary influences to create an ever-changing atmosphere, vast and stark, warm and focused. ... more

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