Neo-traditionalists Conrad Praetzel and Robert Powell stake out their claim in the Americana landscape with an eclectic mix of ambient folk and acid/alt country. Clothesline Revival blends electronic and acoustic beats with dobro, mandolin, guitars, lap and pedal steel guitar, ebow, atmospherics and more to create a captivating new sound with an old-time haunting quality.
Included are adaptations of historical field recordings (several recorded by the legendary American musicologist John A. Lomax) including performances by Leadbelly, Ora Dell Graham, and an unidentified old train caller. Vocalists Wendy Allen and Tom Armstrong lend their talents to songs by Hank Williams, Bill Monroe, Onie Wheeler, Anne Briggs as well as to traditional American
folk songs. Wendy Allen, from North Carolina, is a mesmerizing singer and interpreter of American roots music, while Tom Armstrong's vocals recall classic honky-tonk and country crooners of the fifties like Wynn Stewart and Letfy Frizzel.

Clothesline Revival is ....

CONRAD PRAETZEL on beats, atmospherics, bass, guitar, dobro and mandolin
and
ROBERT POWELL - lap, pedal steel, ebow, bass, baritone and electric guitars

with guest musicians:
BRANTLEY KEARNS - fiddle
MARK FULLER- drums
BRUCE "CREEPER" KURNOW -harmonica
JOHN MURPHY- harmonica
ARIC LEAVIT-banjo

and guest vocalists:
WENDY ALLEN
TOM ARMSTRONG
ARIC LEAVIT

and archival field recording vocals by:
LEADBELLY
ORA DELL GRAHAM
DOUG WALLIN
UNIDENTIFIED TRAIN CALLER
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