Artist	Song
Shelley Hirsch, David Weinstein	Haiku Lingo [excerpt], 1990
People Like Us	Yodel Bomber
Alpendub	Sepp Dub
Edelweiss	Bring Me Edelweiss, 1988
Deep Forest	Hunting, 1992
Up Bustle and Out	Y Ahora Tu, 1996
Christine Lauterburg	Ganz Ohr, 1995
Mary Schneider	Yodelling Mozart, 2001
C.B. "88" Cook	Whoa Buck, 1947
Hank Williams	Love Sick Blues, live, 1949
Hank Williams	Long Gone Lonesome Blues, live,1952
Hank Williams III	One Horse Town, 2002
Slim Cessna's Auto Club	My Goodness Me, 2001
King Wilkie	Where the Old Red River Flows, 2004
Cow	Spanish Yodel
The Grandsons of the Pioneers	Yodel Your Blues Away
Riders In The Sky	When the Bloom Is on the Sage
Don Walser	Rolling Stone From Texas, 1994
Wylie & The Wild West	Yodeling Fool, 1998
The Blacks	Crazy, 1998
Randy Erwin	One More Waltz, Mary Rose, 1989
Gillian Welch	My Morphine, 1998

Comment:

Yahoo, here is the final--and probably most eclectic--mix in my Joy of Yodeling series. In the first part of this mix you can hear yodeling used in different styles of music not usually associated with yodeling, such as avant-garde, dance, electronica, ambient, dub and even classical. Expect the unexpected.

"Whoa Buck" is a complete turn-around back to music of the past, and it marks the beginning of the second part of the mix. This amazing field holler brings up the question whether the American yodel--commonly thought to have been influenced by the Alpine style of yodeling--might not also have been shaped by African-influenced worksongs and hollers.

Since I didn't include Hank Williams on the last two volumes, he gets two tracks on this one. After all, his version of "Lovesick Blues" is one of the most popular yodel songs of all times. The rest of the CD showcases yodeling by artists alive and performing today.




1 Shelley Hirsch, an avant-garde singer from New York, demonstrates a freeform approach to yodeling

3 Alpendub is from Berlin and plays some kind of dub-reggae-electronica

4 "A sound attack straight from the Alps," reads the warning on the cover of this minor dance hit from Austria

5 Two French guys mix dance beats and Pygmy voices

6 More Pygmy voices, mixed with trip-hop

7 Swiss yodeler Christine Lauterburg combines tradition and technology

8 Australian Mary Schneider's Yodelling the Classics became a cult hit which lead her to record a Yodeling the Classics Vol. 2. This track is from the latter CD.

9 Field recording by Alan Lomax

10 Hank William made his Opry debut on June 11, 1949. This performance was recorded one week later.

12 Hank William's grandson loves to yodel, too.

14 King Wilkie named themselves after Bill Monroe's horse, and it's therefore not surprising that this young and promising band plays traditional bluegrass. This song was written by Jimmie Davies of "You Are My Sunshine" fame.

15 If the singers of this Spanish song seem to have a German accent it's because the band is from Hamburg.

16 Thanks to Sean Lally for this track

17 If Riders in the Sky ever play in a venue near you, make sure to go and see them. They are a lot of fun.

18 Newsweek nicknamed Don Walser "the Pavarotti of the Plains"

19 Yahoo yodeler Wylie Gustafson's semi-autobiographic theme song

20 Thanks to Jenergy for this track

21 Randy Erwin both covers classic yodel songs and writes new ones. This is one of his own.

22 Gillian Welch demonstrated that a soulful yodel in slow motion can be as impressive as a speed-yodel

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