Troubadour

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Drag City presents the first official reissue of Dorothy Carter’s
1976 album debut, her folk-music exegesis, Troubadour. In her
lifetime, Dorothy, a self-made traveling musician and folklorist,
brought forth masterful evocations on hammered dulcimer and
psaltery from a myriad of times and places. Her music was played,
produced and sold outside of that era’s mainstream music dis-
tribution.
It’s been 20 years since Dorothy’s passing — but thanks to last
year’s reissue of her second album, Waillee Waillee (1978), and
this edition of Troubadour, her music is surging forward ever more
powerfully. 2035 will mark the centennial of her birth; the mythos
and arcana she pursued in relative obscurity is now inspiring an
audience larger than Dorothy ever knew. At the time of that cen-
tennial, some will, no doubt, look back to the good old days of the
early ’20s, when they first heard her music.

Tracklist

SIDE A
Troubadour Song
Binnorie
Troubadour Songs on the Psaltery
Make a Joyful Sound
Lark in the Morning
Balinderry
Tree of Life

SIDE B
Visiting Song
The King of Glory
The Morning Star
Ukrainian Carol
The Cuckoo
Masquerade
Shirt of Lace