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01. BILL ORCUTT - Solidarity Forever
02. BILL ORCUTT - When You Wish Upon a Star
03. BILL ORCUTT - Black Betty
04. BILL ORCUTT - Ten Thousand Men of Harvard
05. BILL ORCUTT - Spanish is the Loving Tongue
06. BILL ORCUTT - White Christmas
07. BILL ORCUTT - Zip A Dee Doo Dah
08. BILL ORCUTT - Black Snake Moan
09. BILL ORCUTT - Ballad of Davy Crockett
10. BILL ORCUTT - Onward Christian Soldiers
11. BILL ORCUTT - Bring Me My Shotgun
12. BILL ORCUTT - Massa's in the Cold Cold Ground
ARTIST
TITLE
A History of Every One
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
EMEGO 173CD EMEGO 173CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
10/1/2013

A History of Every One by Bill Orcutt is an album of songs: minstrel songs, holiday songs, hymns, marches, cowboy songs, Disney songs, work songs, Delta blues. The original tunes themselves are nothing special, well known, but not particularly well-regarded. Most would be filler on a mid-'60s Doris Day or Burl Ives LP. What Orcutt does with them however is remarkable: expanding upon techniques developed on 2011's How the Thing Sings (EMEGO 128CD/LP) and incorporating ideas forged since his recording of "The Star Spangled Banner" during his 2012 tour, Orcutt interrogates the apparent banality of his material, subjecting it to discontinuity, disjuncture and a fractured repetition that is disturbing and revelatory. Titled after a line from Gertrude Stein's The Making of Americans and inspired by the scholarship of Elijah Wald and Eric Lott, A History of Every One is a bold re-writing of an important historical thread, an interpretation of a lost text and a bewildering extension upon Orcutt's already singular language.