Description
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“Ever Returning” is a collection of twelve tunes curated from America’s musical past. Like his last record, Clinton weaves together a wide range of traditions and textures. There are fiddle and banjo dance tunes, ballad songs, blues and ragtime influences, and some esoterica to boot. Some are solo performances. Others feature live studio takes of Clinton’s stringband with Tim McNalley and Ryan Finch.
Though the album is in some ways wide-ranging, it also holds a focus of tone, mood, and theme. Many songs describe cycles of departure and returning, and many instrumental numbers capture aesthetic qualities that move me deeply in any music: calm, stillness, meditativeness, and an elusive sonic beauty that feels outside of time.
1. All Night Long
2. Plowboy Hop
3. Poor Ellen Smith
4. Mean Conductor Blues
5. Cuttin at the Point
6. Willie Moore
7. Train Your Child
8. Buffalo Gal
9. Katie Dear
10. Amos Johnson Rag
11. Fisher’s Hornpipe
12. Swannanoa Tunnel
Clinton Davis is an old time folk musician based in Southern California. A fifth-generation Kentuckian, Davis grew up in rural Carroll County. His repertoire spans fiddle and banjo music native to his family home, the exuberant ragtime piano and guitar of early 20th-century New Orleans, and ballad songs and dance music of the Southwest.
Davis’ prowess across instruments and traditional American styles has gained notice from the standard-bearers of previous generations, and earned him a place amongst a new generation of American folk musicians. Stefan Grossman, renowned authority of American roots guitar, has called him “a master…carrying on the traditional music torch of Mike Seeger.” No Depression has called his work “a joyous and soulful restoration of one of the lost treasures of American musical tradition.” Deering Banjos has called his playing “simply sublime.”
