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    THE BOAT YOU ROW (2022)
    In this project, Aubrey and Elwood curate archival American folk songs and dance as well as contemporary pieces by Sonny Houston, Jean Ritchie, Billy Edd Wheeler and Elwood himself.
    Ever growing and expanding, award-winning vocal, instrumental and dance artists Aubrey Atwater and Elwood Donnelly present The Boat You Row, their 14th album. Joined by top-notch musicians, Cathy Clasper-Torch, Erin Lobb Mason and Torrin Ryan, their breathtaking vocals are accompanied by mountain dulcimer, banjo, whistle, guitar, harmonica, foot percussion, violin, cello, piano, bass, Uilleann pipes and tambourine.

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Red Winged Blackbird
by Billy Edd Wheeler
Quartet Music, 1964
Here’s a note from Billy Edd when he gave us permission to record his song: “I wrote it from my time in the coal camp of High Coal, WVA, and some of the awful things I saw.”

lyrics

Oh, can't you see that pretty little bird He sings with all his heart and soul He's got a blood-red spot on his wing But all the rest of him is black as coal

Of all the colors I ever did see Red and black are the ones I dread For when a man spills blood on the coal They carry him back from the coal mine dead

So fly away you pretty little bird And leave behind the miner's wife She'll dream about you when you're gone She'll dream about you both day and night

Oh, can't you see that pretty little bird He sings with all his heart and soul He's got a blood-red spot on his wing But all the rest of him is black as coal

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from The Boat You Row Atwater​-​Donnelly 2022, released August 19, 2022
Aubrey Atwater: vocals Elwood Donnelly: vocals
Cathy Clasper-Torch: vocals

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Atwater-Donnelly Warren, Rhode Island

Aubrey Atwater and Elwood Donnelly, present delightful programs of traditional American and Celtic folk songs, a capella pieces, old-time gospel songs, dance tunes, and original works, blending gorgeous harmonies with guitar, Appalachian mountain dulcimer, mandolin, tin whistle, harmonica, banjo, bones, spoons, limberjacks, and Appalachian clog dancing and French Canadian footwork. ... more

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