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Big Mystery (Threshold Music 2009)
Dana and Susan Robinson’s new album Big Mystery sings of the enduring
beauty and prolific life force that exists all around us. From the
whimsical springtime-in-the-north setting of the title track, to the
Afro-Celtic strains of “Waiting For Gordon” these songs are postcards
from the magical and forgotten places they travel.
Simply
conceived, and recorded by Chris Rosser in Asheville, North Carolina,
Big Mystery highlights Dana and Susan’s sound as a duo. Their
trademark, guitar, banjo, and fiddle sound stands out clearly while
flourishes of percussion, bass, piano and dotar from Asheville’s world
music trio Free Planet Radio are interspersed throughout.
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'Round My Door (Threshold Music 2008)
‘Round My Door finds Dana delving ever deeper into his visions of the
American landscape. Songs such as “Everett Ruess,” “’Round My Door,”
“Cotton From The Clay” and “Watercolor Eyes” highlight Dana’s ability
to “…paint with words images so arresting they seem three dimensional”
(Rock and Reel), while songs like Woody Guthrie’s “Pastures of Plenty”
and the old-time tune “Glory in the Meeting House” are a nod to their
traditional influences. The arrangements are classic Dana & Susan
Robinson with the guitar and banjo front and center and smatterings of
percussion, mandolin, piano, and steel and electric guitar around the
edges.
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Native
Soil (Threshold Music 2004)
Dana and
Susan's debut recording as a duo, Native Soil has one foot rooted in
southern old-time stringband tradition and the other in an all-culture
blend of third-world rhythms, crooked English ballads, funky banjo
originals, and vocal harmonies.
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Avenue
of the Saints (Threshold
Music 2002)
In Avenue of the Saints, Dana Robinson writes about place, and
its connection with the
heart. Farmer Saints, Cowboys, Tramps, Railroad workers, Soul Searchers,
and Hemp Activists all inhabit these songs. The Berkshire Mountains, Nevada
desert, Sandhills of Nebraska, Iowa farmland, the Susquehanna, Mississippi,
and Brazos Rivers provide settings for these characters.
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The Trade (Threshold
Music 2000)
The Trade is infused with the soul of the American landscape. Produced by
award-winning producer Bil
VornDick, and recorded in Nashville, the arrangements feature a
rootsy stringband sound with a contemporary rhythm section.
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Midnight Salvage (Threshold Music 1997)
Midnight Salvage includes songs written since Dana's move to Western Massachusetts in
1995. The arrangements highlight Dana's unique percussive fingerstyle
approach and harmonies with Lui Collins and Rani
Arbo.
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Elemental Lullabye (Threshold
Music 1994)
Dana's debut CD includes songs written during his seven years living in Vermont's northern
Green Mountains. Co-produced with Pete Sutherland, the arrangements feature Pete's fiddle
playing, the bottleneck slide of Brooks Williams, the haunting vocals of Patty Casey,
sparse drums and acoustic bass.
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