old four-track tapes, by the modern folk

old four-track tapes

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1.	i am a roving gambler 03:17	buy track
2.	lark's melody 01:40	buy track
3.	down in the valley (minor) 02:11	buy track
4.	devil's march 03:50	buy track
5.	rye whiskey 02:08	buy track
6.	big acoustic tower 02:33	buy track
7.	unknown reel 00:53	buy track
8.	goin' nowhere 03:38	buy track
9.	blue velvet 02:04	buy track
10.	slow blues 01:52	buy track
11.	dark as a dungeon 03:01	buy track
12.	walkin' shoes 02:47	buy track
13.	may the circle be unbroken 02:26	buy track
14.	solid ghosts 03:49	buy track
15.	moonshiner 01:37	buy track
16.	st james infirmary 02:51	buy track
17.	when i get outta jail 02:58	buy track

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unreleased 4-track tapes recorded between 2005/2018

folk songs sourced from "The Folk Songs of North America" by Alan Lomax

"The cut worm forgives the plow" - William Blake, The Proverbs of Hell

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released August 15, 2022

j moss - guitar, keyboard, harmonica, percussion

additional instrumentation on track 8 courtesy of Sean Walsh and The National Reserve, The Brooms, and others

artwork by c. foster-baril

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the modern folk Portland, Oregon

HOME MADE MUSIC / ECOLOGICAL JAZZ / ANTI-CAPITAL / NO SCENE

The Modern Folk is a borderless musical recording and improvisational group based mostly out of the Cowlitz and Clackamas land currently known as Portland, Oregon. They make folk music, when and where they can

back catalog and live recordings at practice records

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