Dvorin's "Grandma Soup"

[Ari Davidow <ari...>]

Yiddish folk fans,

I just heard today from Miriam Dvorin, who's 1983 LP, "Grandma Soup"
was one of the best Yiddish folk albums of that decade. Granted, that
wasn't hard at a time when Yiddish music wasn't much heard or recorded,
but this is, and was, a special recording. She has a lovely voice, plays
an amazing fiddle, and (to my ears at the time) added quite a 
beautiful American folk feel to the songs. I wrote a mini-review back
in 1986, http://www.klezmershack.com/articles/klezreport.86.html#dvorin .

Dvorin also recorded with the Klezmorim, and can be heard on their
second album (or on the Arhoolie compilation CD, "the early years")
playing violin, and singing a wonderful rendition of "Mayn Ruhe Platz".

Arhoolie never released the album on cassette, nor on CD. But it =does=
have about 100 copies of it on LP, surprising in this age in which LPs
are pressed for scratchers and punks, but pretty much never for the 
folk crowd any more. (You won't find this in their catalog--you need 
to write them directly.)

If you still have an LP player (a "turntable," we old-timers call them),
let me recommend an e-mail to mail (at) arhoolie(dot)com to enquire further. Or
to ask (demand?) that they release a CD version--even better.

ari

Ari Davidow
ari (at) ivritype(dot)com
list owner, jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
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