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The Shortest Day​/​Set the Log Alight

from The Shortest Day by Kenny Jackson

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    The Shortest Day (Crow Hill Music CD-004) is the long-awaited sequel to Kenny Jackson’s 2004 solo album Over the Mountain, and it builds on that earlier album’s vision of what old-time mountain music might be: deeply rooted in the old music yet, yet undeniably in the present. The Shortest Day is comprised of fifteen tracks, with accompaniment on many of the tunes provided by some of the finest players of American old-time music – Carl Jones, Erynn Marshall, and Bobb Head. The Shortest Day includes several rare and beautiful old-time fiddle tunes, but also nine gorgeous original pieces, including the title tune. Several tracks feature the beguiling sound of the unaccompanied fiddle – a sound as old as the hills. The Shortest Day also includes four nearly forgotten old songs of unusual beauty, with Kenny accompanying himself on fiddle or banjo, and with Rochelle Moser joining him for a vocal duet on Her Bright Smile Haunts Me Still.

    Kenny Jackson’s decades of immersion in Southern Appalachian old-time music, notes of interest from other musical traditions, and his collaborations with some of the genre’s leading musicians—all these inform the music on his first solo album in eleven years.

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(Kenny Jackson) Both of these tunes are my own compositions, made a year apart on the Winter Solstice. Although I imagine playing them annually on December 21 at sunset, I think they might be good any time of the year.

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from The Shortest Day, released June 6, 2015
Kenny Jackson and Erynn Marshall, fiddles; Carl Jones and Bobb Head, guitars

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Kenny Jackson Pittsboro, North Carolina

Old-time fiddler, spot-on guitarist, banjo picker in several old-time styles, and singer. Kenny has been called "one of the finest old-time musicians active today" (Old-Time Herald), and "a fiddler’s fiddler whose playing has depth, nuance, and layers of subtlety along with fire" (Erynn Marshall). ... more

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