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BEN BOWEN KING/Sidewalk Saints: The Stephen Foster tribute set should have opened your ears to offbeat Americana. King is a killer slide guitarist and rather than make a chops galore fest, he turns his attention to curbside gospel, kind of what was left over in the 1920's after minstrel shows had run their course. Sort of a forerunner to the Maxwell Street blues scene, across America, gospel and religious flavored music would be played on street corners by buskers with eclectic backing (think one man band kind of stuff where the percussion was spoons and homespun stuff like that). Not a museum piece and not a slab of pomo irony, this look as another piece of roadside Americana that has slipped away is a fascinating audio docu. You don't have to be an NPR type to get into it. 02/06/07
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