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Roger McGuinn - Treasures from the Folk Den

Primary Artist
Roger McGuinn
Album Title
Treasures from the Folk Den
Release Date
August 28, 2001 
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Review by Mark Deming
In late 1995, as part of his official website, Roger McGuinn launched a feature called The Folk Den, in which each month he recorded a traditional folk song in his home studio and posted the results on his web page along with brief essays on the histories of the songs and how he came to learn them. Mcguinn used this ongoing experiment as the inspiration for his album, Treasures From The Folk Den, which was recorded in a series of informal sessions (mostly in people's homes, none in a traditional recording studio) using Mcguinn's Apple G4 computer as a mobile recording setup. Read More