Press Clippings:
"This is the hidden diamond that may be the best
recording to cross my desk all year!"
-Maverick Magazine(UK) / Editor
"Super musical history lesson"
-The Telegraph (UK)
"Emphasizing period-appropriate rhythms and instrumentation, the performers pinpoint the heartbreak, lust, loss and flirtatious play loaded within the original compositions"
-Paste Magazine
"Chills went down my spine...A musical time machine"
-Austin Chronicle
"Co-producers Paul Marsteller and Gabriel Rhodes have collected some of the most enduring songs of the 19th and early 20th centuries and faithfully reproduced them."
-Mojo Magazine
"What makes this collection such a winner is how
seamlessly and thoughtfully these ancient tunes are
brought into the present"
-Relix Magazine
"Winsome waltzes and wistful ballads cleaving to period instrumentation with rippling piano (usually by The Band's Garth Hudson)at its centre. Richard Thompson's "The Band Played On" (1895) is a standout."
-Uncut Magazine
"This combination of well-known ditties and rediscovered gems is truly beautiful."
-Penguin Eggs(Canada)
"Lovely"
-The Independent (UK)
"This is not nostalgia. No one alive will remember these songs from their youth. It is more a way of listening to the past and hearing what was once so modern as the music from bygone times and appreciating the beauty left behind."
-Pop Matters
"A fascinating concept, brilliantly executed"
-Dan Forte/Vintage Guitar Magazine
"A delicious snapshot in time..a delightfully
off-the-wall album, executed with gusto."
-Record Collector Magazine
"Lovely!"
-Bob Harris/BBC
"This exquisite collection is no exercise in nostalgia, but rather
an exemplar of tasteful and imaginative interpretation."
-R2 Magazine (UK)
"It's glorious to have these old songs back"
-Songlines Magazine(UK)
"Reanimated turn-of-the-century songs –
both familiar and obscure –
with a hand-picked crew of singers and instrumentalists."
-Hyperbolium/No Depression