"Folk music, in other words, is pastiche. As Anthony suggests elsewhere, the version of 'House of the Rising Sun' that we know today has been forged from radically disparate traditions: It holds elements of the Appalachian rag but also the blues; of country and gospel; sometimes it's told from the point of view of a young girl, and sometimes that of a man; there is always the vague malaise of the open road."
Matthew Shaer in the Los Angeles Times reviews Ted Anthony's Chasing the Rising Sun.
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