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Too Much Fun!

For more than three decades, Peter Stampfel and Steve Weber have explored the boundaries and subsets of the blues, early country and folk, and sniffed out strains of pop melodicism and structural elegance that run through all these genres. Holy Modal Rounders' scattershot approach -- their lineup is...

1999 RS: 3.5of 5 Stars

Good Taste Is Timeless

1971

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Peter Stampfel is that rarest of all creatures, a modest genius. He has one of the most distinctive voices in American music, a twangy screech that somehow he can actually sing in. What makes him so modest is his conviction that all of the really great American music was done a long time ago, and mostly collected on Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music. What makes him a genius is that...

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