Coming Down from Red Lodge

Coming Down from Red Lodge
Studio album by Peter Ostroushko
Released	March 11, 2003
Genre	Americana, folk
Label	Red House
Producer	Peter Ostroushko
Peter Ostroushko chronology

Last updated March 21, 2019

Coming Down from Red Lodge is an album by American musician Peter Ostroushko, released in 2003.

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Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]

Sing Out! stated in its Summer 2003 review: "Ostroushko, like Antonín Dvořák and Aaron Copland before him is able to grasp the kernel of music at the center of "the American experience", and transform it into a larger, more colorful whole... Coming Down from Red Lodge is destined to become one of Ostroushko's most popular recordings."

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Sing Out! was a quarterly journal of folk music and folk songs that was published from May 1950 through spring 2014.

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Writing for Allmusic, music critic Chris Nickson wrote the album is "a perfect illustration of his breadth and instrumental virtuosity on both fiddle and mandolin... The only track that doesn't really work is "Hymn: Page 9/11", perhaps because the emotions involved remain too fresh to be put into notes. With that caveat, this is one of Ostroushko's best releases — and that statement alone is no small praise, given his stature as one of the American greats."^[1]

Track listing

All songs by Peter Ostroushko.

"Coming Down from Red Lodge" – 2:26
"(Peter's Most Excellent) Trip to Donegal" – 4:35
"Teelin Bay Waltz" – 3:29
"President George W. Bush's Hornpipe" – 2:30
"New Smyrna Serenade" – 3:50
"Cashdollar Blues" – 3:15
"East Texas Waltz" – 4:20
"Topanga Canyon Strut" – 4:30
"Reel Medley: The Four-Faced Liar/Baggett Street/The Witches' Kitchen" – 4:50
"Hymn: Page 9/11" – 4:42

Personnel

Peter Ostroushko – mandolin, fiddle, mandola
Marc Anderson – percussion
Gary Raynor – bass
Joel Sayles – bass
Andy Stein – fiddle, saxophone
Diane Tremaine – cello
Pat Donohue – guitar
Dirk Freymuth – bouzouki, guitar
Arnie Kinsella – drums, cowbell, percussion
Dan Newton – accordion
Greg Leisz – guitar, lap steel guitar

Mandolin musical instrument in the lute family (plucked, or strummed)

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Fiddling refers to the act of playing the fiddle, and fiddlers are musicians that play it. A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin. It is a colloquial term for the violin, used by players in all genres including classical music. Although violins and fiddles are essentially synonymous, the style of the music played may determine specific construction differences between fiddles and classical violins. For example, fiddles may optionally be set up with a bridge with a flatter arch to reduce the range of bow-arm motion needed for techniques such as the double shuffle, a form of bariolage involving rapid alternation between pairs of adjacent strings. To produce a "brighter" tone, compared to the deeper tones of gut or synthetic core strings, fiddlers often use steel strings. The fiddle is part of many traditional (folk) styles, which are typically aural traditions—taught 'by ear' rather than via written music.

The mandola or tenor mandola is a fretted, stringed musical instrument. It is to the mandolin what the viola is to the violin: the four double courses of strings tuned in fifths to the same pitches as the viola, a fifth lower than a mandolin. The mandola, although now rarer, is the ancestor of the mandolin, the name of which means simply "little mandola".

Production notes

Peter Ostroushko – producer, liner Notes, mixing
Eric Peltoniemi – executive producer
Rick Cunha – engineer
Sam Hudson – engineer, mixing
David Glasser – mastering
Carla Leighton – design
Ann Marsden – photography

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References

1 2 3 Nickson, Chris. "Coming Down from Red Lodge > Review". Allmusic . Retrieved June 28, 2011.

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[AM-1] 1 2 3 Nickson, Chris. "Coming Down from Red Lodge > Review". Allmusic . Retrieved June 28, 2011.