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Deep River: The Bounty of Alan Lomax

Ted Drozdowski, The Boston Phoenix, 14 June 1999

THE CD STARTS with a banjo picker burning on a hoedown called 'Cripple Creek,' progresses along a chain of mountain songs to 'Arkansas Traveler,' and rambles through to the Irish fiddler's favorite, 'Devil's Dream.'

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