Feelin' Fine, by Derroll Adams

Feelin' Fine

by Derroll Adams

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Lovingly remastered from original tapes, in plastic-free triplefold digisleeve adapted from original artwork with new sleeve notes and previously unseen photos.

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	1.	Darling Corey 03:17
	2.	Apprenticed In London 01:58
	3.	Freight Train Blues 03:50
	4.	Wildwood Flower 03:57
	5.	The Sky 04:30
	6.	Muleskinner Blues 03:39
	7.	Love Song 03:17
	8.	Mr Rabbit 01:38
	9.	Deep Ellum Blues 02:19
	10.	Blue Ridge Mountains 03:44
	11.	Chattering Jaw 03:50
	12.	The Valley 05:37
	13.	Cluck Old Hen 02:46
	14.	Mountain 04:17
	15.	Dixie Darling 02:54
	16.	Anna Feher 03:22
	17.	Oregon 02:53
	18.	Memories 03:47

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ZEN AND THE ART OF BANJO

The Derroll Adams story begins with his growing up in the back seats of cars in 1930s America, listening to early country and old-time music on the radio. The 1950s found him on the West coast where he wrote his celebrated song Portland Town and his life intersected with Pete Seeger, Odetta, Guy Carawan, Woody Guthrie, Will Geer, James Dean, Lord Buckley and eventually Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, with whom he came to Europe in 1957, never to go back.

He became a folk hero in Britain and Europe in the 1960s, appearing in the Bob Dylan Don’t Look Back film and with fans of his zen banjo playing and singing including Donovan, Bert Jansch, Wizz Jones, Billy Connolly, Rod Stewart, Ronnie Lane, Long John Baldry and many more. In 1972 he recorded his best album, Feelin’ Fine, for cult English label Village Thing.

Here it is on CD for the first time, in a triple-fold digipak, expanded with six tracks from another mid ’70s release and with guest musicians including Wizz Jones, Tucker Zimmerman, Roland Van Campenhout and Maggie Holland.

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released November 27, 2016

Tracks 1-12 from Feelin’ Fine (The Village Thing).
Recorded August 1972 at The Meeting House, Frenchay, Bristol.
Produced by Ian A. Anderson.
Derroll Adams: vocal and 5-string banjo.
Danny Adams: vocal (2, 8, 12).
Wizz Jones: guitar (1, 4, 5), 12-string guitar (12).
Roland Van Campenhout: guitar (1, 3, 11), harmonica (4), recorder (12).

Tracks 13-18 from Along The Way (Best Seller).
Recorded 1975 in Brussels, Belgium.
Produced by Christoph Luhr.
Derroll Adams: vocals and 5-string banjo.
Danny Adams: vocal (15).
Maggie Holland: bass guitar (13, 15, 16, 17).
Youra Marcus: guitar (13, 15).
Tucker Zimmerman: piano (14, 16), 12-string guitar (17).

Remastered by Duncan Cowell at Sound Mastering.

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