FUGITIVES (vinyl)

Description

Before Dylan, before Robert Zimmermann, there were the ancestors, songwriters & bluesmen like Woody Guthrie, Hank Williams, Mississippi John Hurt, Blind Willie Mc Tell... there were also the songs passed down by ear from generation to generation, without being able to trace their author or exact origin. Haunted by these ghosts and in the company of a few connoisseurs - Wayne Standley, Don Cavalli, Moriba Koïta & Mama Rosin - we delved into this not-so-distant past to bring back this collection of songs, both archaic and modern, which together tell a story of love and abandonment, seduction and addiction, crimes of passion, revenge, and desperate escapes. Before Dylan, before Robert Zimmermann, there were the ancestors, songwriters & bluesmen like Woody Guthrie, Hank Williams, Mississippi John Hurt, Blind Willie Mc Tell... there were also the songs passed down by ear from generation to generation, without being able to trace their author or exact origin. Haunted by these ghosts and in the company of a few connoisseurs - Wayne Standley, Moriba Koïta, Don Cavalli & Mama Rosin - we delved into this not-so-distant past to bring back this collection of songs, both archaic and modern, which together tell a story of love and abandonment, seduction and addiction, crimes of passion, revenge, and desperate escapes. We'll meet a gallery of fugitives of all kinds: killer lovers and highwaymen, redeemers of wrongs, mothers abandoned by their men addicted to gambling or drink, exploited cowboys, an adulterous and proud woman, a mischievous candy seller, an inconsolable widower...