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Bryan Bowers – By Heart – Vinyl Record
Bryan Bowers – By Heart is an album by Bryan Bowers, an American autoharp player and singer. Bryan Bowers is known for his skillful mastery of the autoharp and his contributions to folk and acoustic music.
Bowers became very popular with the audience of the comedy radio program The Dr. Demento Show with his 1980 song ‘The Scotsman’. In 1993, Bowers was inducted into the Autoharp Hall of Fame whose membership includes Mother Maybelle Carter, Kilby Snow, and Sara Carter.
In two consecutive years, 2006 and 2007, he released new recordings: Bristlecone Pine and September in Alaska. ‘Although such guests as Tim O’Brien, Sam Bush, Stuart Duncan, and Enright and O’Bryant play and sing on a number of cuts, this is a Bryan Bowers disc all the way, with his exquisite autoharp flavoring many of the tunes,’ wrote a November 2006 Bluegrass Unlimited reviewer of Bristlecone Pine. ‘Bowers selects thematically diverse and lyrically strong material. There are powerful love songs (‘When You And I Were True’ and ‘Magnolia’) and non-cloying meditations on life and death (‘Bristlecone Pine,’ ‘Friends For Life,’ and ‘When I Go’), as well as haunting instrumentals. He nicely avoids the hackneyed stuff of so many folk/bluegrass/country performers.’ He maintains an active performance and teaching schedule.
Brand new, never played and still sealed in the factory plastic seal
Flying Fish Records 1984 FF 313
Track Listing
Hot Buttered Rum
Stony Point
Dog
I’ll Fly Away
Zen Gospel Singing
Black Heart
Battle Hymm Of The Republic
Ramparts
Shady Grove
Ezekiel
Road To Sligo/The Girl I Left Behind Me
Rickett’s Hornpipe
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