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| Gayle Schmitt | Toodala Front Porch Favorites |
| Review by Brenda Hough | |
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JG Productions |
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Gayle Schmitt is a music/movement teacher in San Francisco and this CD features songs that kids of any age will enjoy. She has gathered some Bay Area bluegrass musicians to accompany her in this collection of old-time fun songs and there's lots of hot picking and strumming on the tunes. Bluegrass fans will appreciate the banjo licks mixed with fast fiddle and soaring dobro. Your toes will be tapping along with "Pig in a Pen," "Turkey in the Straw," and "Buffalo Gals." Food fans will want to sing along with "Katie's Dumplings," "How Many Biscuits Can You Eat?" and "Sweet Potatoes." The old camp favorite "Ain't No Bugs On Me" is full of bouncy mandolin and banjo. Gayle has even written a song in honor of the "Jumping Frog Jubilee." If the usual bluegrass diet of lovelorn songs, cabins in the mountains and renegades gets you down, this is great for a change of pace and a good collection of songs for kids and grownups to sing together. |
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