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• Artist: Larry Long
• Album: Well May The World Go
• Label: Smithsonian
• Year of Release: 2000
• Reviewed by: dscanland on 2003-03-29

It seems appropriate that Larry Long has found a home on Smithsonian Folkways. Larry is a student in the Woody Guthrie school of folk music. Like Woody before him, Larry travels around the world writing music about the people that he meets and the experiences that he chalks up. These aren’t your average folk either. For the most part Larry tries to dig into local legends and people who have made differences in their community. The opening track is called “Chicky, Chicky Boom� which was actually written by “Papa Chic� Milton Douglas who almost made his 100th birthday. The layout of the liner is done in a very tasteful way (like most Smithsonian Folkways releases). The story that the song is about is written out before the lyrics for the song are presented. This actually help you feel what Larry Long was feeling when he wrote the particular song. It allows a lot more introspection into his experiences. Larry’s experiences are not just limited to North America. There are stories about war-torn Vietnam in which he has an actual Vietnamese person speaking the story along with his singing. There is a song about Larry falling in love with Brazil and all the diversity that country has. “Ramona� is a song about European Gypsies and a dream that Larry had after reading Gypsy Fires in America. If we continue to have storytellers like Guthrie and Long we will have a well documented history of the world as we know it.

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