Wonder Wheel
Released: Jul 25, 2006
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Released: Jul 25, 2006
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Wonder Wheel isn't the first album created from completed but never recorded lyrics left behind by the late folk icon Woody Guthrie. In 1998 the British folk-punk singer Billy Bragg and American...
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Brother Moses Smote the Water
Released: Mar 8, 2005
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Released: Mar 8, 2005
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The Klezmatics are arguably the most genre-bending performers on the klezmer scene today (and perhaps of any day). Here, they combine with an up-and-coming singer from the South. That singer just...
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Rise Up! Shteyt Oyf!
Released: Sep 17, 2002
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Released: Sep 17, 2002
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One thing about the Klezmatics, they're not afraid of a little controversy with their klezmer music. Here they stir the ashes a couple of times, with an English-Yiddish cover of Holly Near's "I...
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Well
Released: Sep 15, 1998
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Released: Sep 15, 1998
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When Israeli singer Chava Alberstein produced a documentary film on 20th-century Yiddish poets in 1995 (Too Early to Be Quiet, Too Late to Sing), the writers' stories provoked Alberstein to set...
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Possessed
Released: Apr 8, 1997
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Released: Apr 8, 1997
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Much of Possessed is a collaboration with Tony Kushner (the Pulitzer- and Tony-winning playwright of Angels in America). He contributes lyrics to two songs, and the second half of the album was...
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Shvaygn = Toyt
Released: 1988
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Released: 1988
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Unafraid of shameless schmaltz when it suits the cause of raising an aorta-busting ruckus, these New Yorkers recognize the bent nature of the tunes they cover, playing up the hokey woodblock...
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Jews with Horns
Released: 1995
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Released: 1995
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Picture the Reverend Horton Heat with a yarmulke, if you like. Or "Fiddler on the Roof" with Coltraneian complexity. Just don't expect somber religious music. The Klezmatics' brand of Jewish...
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Rhythm & Jews
Released: December 1990
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Released: December 1990
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One of the great things about klezmer is the fact that while it is a product of Jewish musical traditions, it has also reflected the Jewish-American experience. When American Jews in Brooklyn and...
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