BUY THIS ALBUM!

This is going to be hopefully a regular column, appearing every Monday, that will talk about an album that we feel is worth your hard earned coins.  There's a lot of music out there and probably not enough money in your wallet to buy all that you want, so our aim in this column is to try and steer you to what we feel is worth the money.  It's not always going to be new stuff, our criteria will be that the album is available from at least Itunes or Amazon.  Nothing we hate more than to hear about some great music and than not be able to find it anywhere.  Of course we'd like to point you towards a lot of new stuff, so if we have it we'll do the pointing.  Any artists that want to send us your album for a chance to be featured see the sidebar with info on how to contact us.  

Our choice to lead off our new column is the anthology album Bound To Go.  The album is by Andrew Calhoun and friends.  The description of the album from its home page is:

Bound to Go includes authentic spirituals, shout songs from the Sea Islands, prison ballads and rare secular folk songs. “Run to Jesus” is the song that first gave Frederick Douglass the notion of escaping from slavery. With an essay and historical/folklore notes on the songs. Recorded with trumpet, fretless gourd and 5-string banjo, guitars, fiddle, cello, harmonica, piano, percussion and many wonderful singers! 72 minutes running time. Cover painting by Gullah artist Jonathan Green. In memory of Joy Calhoun, who worked for justice in the Civil Rights movement, 10% of income from sales goes to support programs for children, half to College of Charleston's African-American history camps, half to Williams Preparatory Academy Arts programs, 2710 S. Dearborn in Chicago.(www.jonathangreenstudios.com)

This is an amazing album.  If you're looking for a pop hit this is not the place to be looking at.  These songs are part of history.  The singing on the cuts bring you to the feel of when they were first sung.  There's not a lot I can say about this album but it is definitely worth you buying.