Title: Instrumental Breakdown Artist: Mary Flower Label: Yellow Dog Records Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 823800136225 Genre: Blues Release Date: 2007-02-06 Number of Discs: 1
Widely-respected roots and blues performer Mary Flower is renowned for her spring water-clear vocals, beautiful original compositions, and above all, mastery of finger picking and lap-slide guitar styles. In fact, she's the only woman to place twice at the National Finger picking Guitar Championship in Winfield, KS. in response to frequent requests for recordings featuring her guitar playing, "Instrumental Breakdown" compiles the instrumental tracks from her critically acclaimed albums "Honey from the Comb", "Ladyfingers", "Ragtime Gal", and "Bywater Dance", along with a couple of newly-recorded tunes. These tracks feature Mary's intricate guitar - both solo as well as with backing from a who's who of roots notables, including Jon Cleary, Tony Furtado, Fritz Richmond, Pat Donohue, Woody Mann, and Dr. Michael White. Mary's distinctive and melodic songwriting is also on center stage, as nineteen of the twenty tracks are her original compositions.
Tracks: 1.1 Black Rat Swing 1.2 Hobo's Hop 1.3 Raise the Devil 1.4 Black Dog Rag 1.5 La Grippe 1.6 Good News Waltz 1.7 Hula Hoedown 1.8 Monon Blues 1.9 Terminal Rag 1.10 Three Sisters' Waltz 1.11 Ladyfingers 1.12 Crooked 1.13 Hudson River Rag 1.14 Jesse's Jump 1.15 Ragtime Gal 1.16 Arkansas Ramble 1.17 Slovak Stomp 1.18 Maplewood 1.19 Monkeys on a Binge 1.20 Song for Samantha
