Our Time (album)

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Our Time
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Studio album by The Gordons
Released March 19, 2008
Recorded 2007
Genre Folk
Length45:03
Label Inside-Out
Producer Gary Gordon
The Gordons chronology
Time Will Tell Our Story
(2002)Time Will Tell Our Story2002		Our Time
(2008)

Our Time was released by folk music duo The Gordons on March 19, 2008. It was recorded and engineered, mixed, and mastered by Gary Gordon at Inside-Out Studio in Sparta, Illinois.

Folk music Music of the people

Folk music includes traditional folk music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be called world music. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted orally, music with unknown composers, or music performed by custom over a long period of time. It has been contrasted with commercial and classical styles. The term originated in the 19th century, but folk music extends beyond that.

The Gordons (duo) folk music duo

The Gordons are a folk music duo consisting of Gary Gordon and Roberta Gordon, who are husband and wife. They have been performing professionally since 1973.

This topic covers notable events and articles related to 2008 in music.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "I Can't Settle Down" (Roberta Gordon, Tim Carter) - 2:48
  2. "300 Miles from Hazard" (Si Kahn) - 3:10
  3. "Rock-a-Bye Cindy" (R, Gordon, Gary Gordon) - 3:09
  4. "Blackjack Davey" (Traditional; arr. and adapt. by R. Gordon, G. Gordon) - 4:52
  5. "All My Tears" (Julie Miller) - 3:43
  6. "Widow Mae" (R. Gordon, G. Gordon) - 2:56
  7. "When I Get Over You" (Randy Leiner) - 3:02
  8. "Give Me Water, Lord" (R. Gordon, G. Gordon) - 1:19
  9. "Lincoln's Funeral Train" (Norman Blake) - 4:01
  10. "Thank You For Reminding Me" (R. Gordon, G. Gordon) - 2:50
  11. "Shady Grove" (Traditional; arr. and adapt. by R. Gordon, G. Gordon) - 4:24
  12. "Randall Collins" (Norman Blake) - 3:05
  13. "A Child's Song" (R. Gordon, G. Gordon) - 2:33
  14. "After All This Time" (R. Gordon, G. Gordon) - 3:11

Personnel

The Gordons

Guitar fretted string instrument

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings. It is typically played with both hands by strumming or plucking the strings with either a guitar pick or the finger(s)/fingernails of one hand, while simultaneously fretting with the fingers of the other hand. The sound of the vibrating strings is projected either acoustically, by means of the hollow chamber of the guitar, or through an electrical amplifier and a speaker.

Dobro American guitar brand

Dobro is an American brand of resonator guitar, currently owned by the Gibson Guitar Corporation. In popular usage, the term is also used as a generic trademark for any wood-bodied, single-cone resonator guitar.

Autoharp musical string instrument

The autoharp is a musical instrument in the chorded zither family. It features a series of chord bars attached to dampers, which, when pressed, mute all of the strings other than those that form the desired chord. Although the word autoharp was originally a trademark of the Oscar Schmidt company, the term has colloquially come to be used for any hand-held, chorded zither, regardless of manufacturer.

Additional personnel

Fiddle musical instrument

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.

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

A mandolin is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is usually plucked with a plectrum or "pick". It commonly has four courses of doubled metal strings tuned in unison, although five and six course versions also exist. The courses are normally tuned in a succession of perfect fifths. It is the soprano member of a family that includes the mandola, octave mandolin, mandocello and mandobass.

Banjo musical instrument

The banjo is a four-, five-, or six-stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity as a resonator, called the head, which is typically circular. The membrane is typically made of plastic, although animal skin is still occasionally used. Early forms of the instrument were fashioned by Africans in the United States, adapted from African instruments of similar design. The banjo is frequently associated with folk, Irish traditional, and country music. Banjo can also be used in some rock songs. Many rock bands, such as The Eagles, Led Zeppelin, and The Allman Brothers, have used the five-string banjo in some of their songs. Historically, the banjo occupied a central place in African-American traditional music and the folk culture of rural whites before entering the mainstream via the minstrel shows of the 19th century. The banjo, along with the fiddle, is a mainstay of American old-time music. It is also very frequently used in traditional ("trad") jazz.


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