Wayfaring Strangers: Ladies from the Canyon

Description

Wayfaring Strangers: Ladies from the Canyon is a multi-artist compilation released on Numero Group in March 2006‎. The album features tracks from super-rare self-released private press and little label 1970s US female folk.

By 1970, the folk revival had all but ended. Gone were the heady days of «Will The Circle Be Unbroken» and «If I Had A Hammer». Hootenanny had been cancelled. Broadside was out, Rolling Stone in. Richard Fariña was dead; Bob Dylan had plugged in. Paths paved by Joan Baez and Judy Collins had led a younger, more introspective generation of songwriters into the woods, while the ethos forged in weather-beaten hills and tempered on the lower east side of Manhattan was being reborn in the canyons of California, as songs for seagulls crafted in Joni Mitchell’s visage. Culled from beyond the crop of crit-revisionist darlings Linda Perhacs, Judee Sill, or Vashti Bunyan, Ladies From The Canyon examines the world of private folk via the works of 13 unlikely heroines who sang beneath the infrastructure of the music business, playing to coffeehouse chatter and church picnic silence. Each of these Wayfaring Strangers walk in the handmade aesthetic of lyrics scribbled into faded denim, of delicate movements captured and released.

Limited-to-500 bonus EP featuring Susan Smith and Susan Pillsbury available as bundle only. [Numero Group]

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CD tracklist:

01. Becky Severson – A Special Path – 0:59
02. Collie Ryan – Cricket – 3:19
03. Linda Rich – Sunlight Shadow – 2:15
04. Caroline Peyton – Engram – 3:19
05. Carla Sciaky – And I A Fairytale Lady – 3:22
06. Judy Kelly – Window – 2:08
07. Shira Small – Eternal Life – 2:23
08. Jennie Pearl – Maybe In Another Year – 2:52
09. Mary Perrin – Dedication – 3:47
10. Priscilla Quinby – With All Hands – 3:13
11. Marj Snyder – Rain – 4:16
12. Barbara Sipple – Song For Life – 4:16
13. Ginny Reilly – Wildman – 5:57
14. Ellen Warshaw – Sister Morphine – 5:29

Note: Also released on 12-inch vinyl LP by Numero Group in January 2017.

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