FOLK PLAYGROUND, Putumayo Kids

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Na płycie znajdują się folkowe utwory dla dzieci i dorosłych, śpiewane przez takich muzyków jak: Victor Johnson, Zoe Lewis, Jon Gailmor, Michelle Shocked, Brady Rymer, Dan Zanes, Lourie Berkner, Justin Roberts, Leon Redbone, Elizabeth Mitchell • Crawdad, Eric Bibb i Michael Jerome Browne.

1.Victor Johnson • This Old Man
2.Zoe Lewis • Sheep
3.Jon Gailmor • Just Kidding
4.Michelle Shocked • Got No Strings
5.Brady Rymer • It's All How You Look At It
6.Dan Zanes • Hop Up Ladies
7.Laurie Berkner • Froggie Went a Courtin
8.Trout Fishing in America • Fill It Up
9.Justin Roberts • Roller in the Coaster
10.Leon Redbone • Polly Wolly Doodle
11.Elizabeth Mitchell • Crawdad
12.Eric Bibb feat. Michael Jerome Browne • Just Look Up

Część dochodów ze sprzedaży płyty przekazywana jest organizacji Fund for Folk Culture, która wspiera folklor i sztukę tradycyjną z całego świata. Więcej info na stronie: www.folkculture.com.

Putumayo's consistently top-drawer producers probably encountered fewer obstacles combing the globe for exotic artists to include in their World Playground disc than in concocting excitement over Folk Playground. For one thing, Dan Zanes has been cranking out excellent folk-flavored records for kids alongside his battalion of big-name friends for years--even though he's included here ("Hop Up Ladies"), he's still tough competition. There's also the still-relevant (and superb) kids' folk discs Circle Game: Folk Music for Kids and A Child's Celebration of Folk Music to slow demand. Finally, you can't blame a parent for being reluctant to fork over more money for a folk disc when he'd just as soon share his old Dylan discs or Bruce Springsteen's recent We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions. That Folk Playground plays like a vital addition to any kids' collection, then, says a lot about this label's ability to distill even the most meandering of genres. Part of it, as with every disc in the Playground series, is the packaging: Not only is it pretty to look at and flip-friendly, each song arrives with a breezy, un-boring explanation. But the music speaks loudest. Standouts on a disc that doesn't shy away from regional folk strands include Eric Bibb's soul-steeped "Just Look Up," Elizabeth Mitchell's gorgeously honest-sounding "Crawdad," Leon Redbone's grown-up sounding "Polly Wolly Doodle," and the Zanes track. --Tammy La Gorce
Years ago, before MP3 players and video games, people used to get together with family and friends to make music. Gathered around the fireplace or sitting on the front porch, people of all ages would pull out instruments and sing traditional songs that had been passed from generation to generation. This is the very essence of folk music, and its legacy continues on Folk Playground.

In the 1950s and 60s, many traditional folk songs found renewed life and meaning for a new generation of performers and audiences. Many of the people who sing on Folk Playground grew up listening to these songs, and as adults, have continued the folk music tradition by performing their own versions of classic songs and by writing new ones.

Erib Bibb, Elizabeth Mitchell, Jon Gailmor, Victor Johnson and Trout Fishing in America have devoted their careers to performing folk songs for children and adults. While several musicians on Folk Playground have taken different routes to the folk scene. Dan Zanes, Laurie Berkner, Justin Roberts and Brady Rymer traveled rock and roll roads before taking a turn down the path of kids’ and folk music. Zoe Lewis has flown all over the world before landing in Massachusetts. Still others are even more unlikely wanderers onto the scene: Retro pioneer Leon Redbone reaches back into time for his version of "Polly WollyDoodle" and Michelle Shocked pulls a few strings to bring us her cover of "Got No Strings".

To help ensure that the folk legacy continues for many generations to come, Putumayo is donating a portion of the proceeds from the sale of Folk Playground to the Fund for Folk Culture, in support of their dedication to the dynamic practice and conservation of folk and traditional arts and culture in the United States.

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