Still Runnin' Round In The Wilderness: The Lost Music of Willard Robison, Vol I

by Matt Munisteri

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1.	We'll Have A New Home In The Morning 04:25	info	buy track
2.	I'll Have The Blues Until I Get To California 06:37	info	buy track
3.	Still Runnin' Round in the Wilderness 05:27	info	buy track
4.	Revolving Jones 03:11	info	buy track
5.	Truthful Parson Brown 06:59	info	buy track
6.	Little High Chairman 04:18	info	buy track
7.	'Taint So, Honey, 'Taint So 06:11	info	buy track
8.	Hurry Sundown 02:47	info	buy track
9.	Heard A Mockingbird Singing 06:39	info	buy track
10.	Moonlight Mississippi 03:47	info	buy track
11.	A June Of Long Ago 03:54	info	buy track
12.	A Cottage For Sale 06:59	info	buy track

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During the mid 1920's Willard Robison was working as a pianist and arranger with many of the stars of the new jazz vanguard when he went into the studio and recorded a string of startling recordings which almost certainly made him the prototype for the American 20th century's most abundant and everlasting artistic archetype: The singer/songwriter. Before the deluge - before there was Hoagy, or Johnny Mercer, or Randy Newman, or Mose Allison, or Brian Wilson, or Van Dyke Parks - Willard Robison wrote, orchestrated, conducted, and sang his own utterly unclassifiable music and lyrics in a series of pioneering and timeless recordings between 1924 and 1930. His songs told of odd rural loners, wild open landscapes, revival camp meetings, preachers, and the devil (always the devil) and employed a complex and surprising harmonic and melodic language which, while referencing the new jazz - along with classical, ragtime, blues, and even old time country music - emerged at once as a fully realized and completely original American voice.

Yet, in the years since 1930, and in the 42 years since Robison's death, not one of these ground-breaking recordings has ever been re-issued after its initial release as a 78 record. Robison is virtually alone among seminal and much-recorded American musical innovators: the LP era passed him by; the CD era passed him by; the digital download era has thus-far passed him by. As Robison slipped deeper into alcoholism and an increasingly itinerant life the big companies who owned his music subsequently shelved these strange "unmarketable" works to the vaults, where they remain to this day. But this could soon change, and Matt Munisteri’s new CD “Still Runnin’ ‘Round in The Wilderness” may prove a catalyst for a long overdue interest in this timeless body of work.

ALL ALBUM ARTWORK, INCLUDING A 24 PAGE BOOKLET WITH NOTES AND RARE PHOTOS IS INCLUDED WITH DOWNLOAD.

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released August 1, 2012

Matt Munisteri - Guitar, Vocals, Banjo
Matt Ray - Piano
Danton Boller - Bass
Ben Perowsky - Drums
Jon-Erik Kellso - Trumpet
Scott Robinson - C-Melody Saxophone and Clarinet

With Quincy Davis - Drums ("Revolving Jones"), Will Holshouser - Accordion and Arranger ("Revolving Jones") and Rachelle Garniez - Vocals ("A June Of Long Ago")

All tracks except 3 recorded by John Kilgore at John Kilgore Sound and Recording NYC, January 2nd and 3rd 2008
Track 3 recorded by Peter Karl at PKRS Brooklyn, NY, January 2003
Mastered by Alan Silverman, ARF! Digital NYC
Graphic Design: Andrea Cutler
Hand colored cover art: Luke Jaeger
All arrangements except track 4 by Matt Munisteri

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Matt Munisteri New York, New York

Guitarist, singer, and songwriter Matt Munisteri is a Brooklyn native who grew up as almost assuredly the only bluegrass banjo player on his block. His own compositions and playing reflect this life-long devotion to a rich history of American Popular song; linking rural and urban, long-gone and contemporary. ... more

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