Tangle Eye
Alan Lomax’s Southern Journey Remixed
(Zoe/Rounder)
The idea of remixing the legendary field recordings of Alan Lomax is scary, but it works. Tangle Eye takes each track and works it over with a flair that doesn’t strip the initial effect of the songs. Though sacrilegious to all things folk, the mixes are handled well and make for enjoyable listening. No one at Zoe could have expected the genre’s collectors to even want this, but it might work to bring around those who have never had the joy of experiencing this music.
—Trevor MacLaren
This article appears in Dec 6-12, 2007.