bsd@psuvm.UUCP (04/23/85)
Sometime around the first of the year, there was a discussion here about a show on PBS called Two Gentlemen Folk that starred Benjamin Luxton and Bill Crofut. Well, I don't know if this was mentioned, but I found out that the two of them have made an album called 'Simple Gifts' that includes many of the songs from the show. I just heard a friends copy and I don't know the label, but I'm going to try to find it. What the two of them do to 'Simple Gifts' and 'Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye' is incredible. --Scott Dickson User Consultant uucp: :ihnp4, allegra, akgua:!psuvax1!BSD%PSUVM.BITNET Bitnet: BSD@PSUVM.BITNET Arpa: BSD%PSUVM.BITNET@WISCVM.ARPA
mej@ptsfa.UUCP (Mary Johnson) (04/25/85)
> > Sometime around the first of the year, there was a discussion > here about a show on PBS called Two Gentlemen Folk that > starred Benjamin Luxton and Bill Crofut. > > Well, I don't know if this was mentioned, but I found out that > the two of them have made an album called 'Simple Gifts' that > includes many of the songs from the show. I just heard a friends > copy and I don't know the label, but I'm going to try to find it. > What the two of them do to 'Simple Gifts' and 'Johnny I Hardly Knew > Ye' is incredible. They also have another album, All Throught the Night, Pro Arte PAD 188. I saw this in a used record shop, so I don't know whether it is still 'in print'. Mary Eileen Johnson {ucbvax,cbosgd,hplabs,decwrl,amd,sun,nsc}!dual!ptsfa!mej or ihnp4!ptsfa!mej
mickey@cca.UUCP (Mickey Levine) (04/29/85)
Having been at the 'Two Gentlemen Folk' taping (my brother is the lead string string guitarist), there are some things you should know about the concert. 1) The day it was taped, it was 101F outside, and hotter inside. This was because they closed all of the doors and had the air conditioning off. 2) 80% of the 'audience' were ringers. Most were professional singers from the Berkshires area who were 'given' tickets to a) fill the audience and b) help the sing-alongs. The concert was enjoyable but terribly over- rehearsed (the musicians spent a week (14 hours a day) preparing. Bill Crofut has either 2 or 3 albums by himself, the 'best' of them being his 'Goshen Concert' album (label unknown). Together, they were working on a new album in England (as of last year) but I don't know if it has been released yet. Should you want to reach Bill, he lives out in the Berkshires (Mass.) but I don't have my address book handy. If you want to reach him, send me a message and I'll send you his address. One last note - the soundtrack for TGF was done in stereo and was simulcast during it's first showing in Boston. Mickey Levine decvax!cca!mickey