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Sidetrack My Engine

by Nora Brown

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davidjerez
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davidjerez Kindling and keeping traditional folk legacies alive. Thank you, Nora!
hardys1
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hardys1 This record will forever be influential to my banjo playing style, and will always be in my listening repertoire. Beautiful through and through! Favorite track: Green Valley Waltz.
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Faisal Jewell The Very Day I’m Gone is the Best Song in the Album. When I listen to it, I imagine I'm camping in the Appalachian Mountains at Night with a Campfire and Nora Brown appears and starts playing "The Very Day I’m Gone" on her Banjo. I then Fall Asleep when the Song ends. Favorite track: The Very Day I’m Gone.
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craigtheautotroph An intimate set of beautiful songs superbly arranged by Nora Brown-- and a delightful choice of mono. Favorite track: Frankie and Albert.
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spider-mark Amazing rendition from one so young Favorite track: Frankie and Albert.
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about

Nora Brown, at 16 years of age, plays with beauty and depth in the performances captured on her new album, Sidetrack My Engine. Recorded in mono, live to tape in a large 19th century vaulted stone cellar, below the streets of Brooklyn, the album combines the raw and immediate quality of a field recording with the recording quality of a studio album.

The album is available via digital download and on 10” white vinyl in a signed and numbered first edition with liner notes booklet, letterpress download card, and custom printed 100% recycled chipboard jackets with art drawn by Nora Brown.

The songs, and instrumentals on this record draw the listener in: They are poignant and transformative, challenging listeners to allow this old and “outsider” music into their present day life, alongside the music on the radio, TV and front pages of the internet. Nora is joined on several songs by Jackson Lynch and Jerron “Blindboy” Paxton, hailed by the New York Times as “easily the most talented young acoustic bluesman to come along in many, many years.”
These songs were learned by Nora through the continued tradition of visiting elder musicians in her community, from old records and from field recordings in archival collections.

The record opens with 8th of January, a tune commemorating the Battle of New Orleans in the War of 1812. Nora learned this tune from an archival recording of the great African American banjo and fiddle duet, Frazier and Patterson. The essential American ballad Frankie and Albert was learned in person from the contemporary Eastern Kentucky banjo player, John Haywood. The Very Day I’m Gone was adapted by Nora from a version sung by the ballad singer Addie Graham. Wedding Dress came to Nora from John Cohen and is heard here in her own arrangement and version.

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released September 24, 2021

Nora Brown - voice, banjo
Jackson Lynch - fiddle
Jerron “Blindboy” Paxton - bones

Recorded by Jon Atkinson / Bigtone Records
Mastered by Joseph Dejarnette / Studio 808A
Produced by Eli Smith
Artwork by Nora Brown & Benton Brown
Jalopy Records JR009

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Nora Brown Brooklyn, New York

Nora plays traditional music with a focus on southern Appalachian banjo and guitar playing. Along with mentors in the northeast like the late John Cohen she also has traveled and learned directly from master musicians including Alice Gerrard, George Gibson and the late Lee Sexton and Art Rosenbaum. ... more

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