Abigail Washburn + Teddy & The Roosevelts September 21, 2010

"weirdly wonderful...a student of Chinese culture and American-roots music, Washburn has combined her passions to create a gorgeous, joyful new sound." -Brian Braiker, Newsweek

"3 out of 4 stars" -Brian Mansfield, USA Today

"A way to break folk music's mold...On this collaboration with similarly boundary-blind players, Washburn blurs the line between folk and art music, between rural Americana and world music...The globe-trotting effect grows with the haunting instrumental "A Kazahk Melody," leading into the flat-out bluegrass breakdown "Banjo Pickin' Girl" that's all the more liberating because of the distance it's taken for Washburn to find her way home. Maybe it is a small world after all." -Randy Lewis, LA Times

"Intriguing new album...'So a spaceship we must build," Ms. Washburn sings in her sweet, clear voice, "Set off from a windowsill." Then she yodels. But that isn't the oddest moment on the album, which outfits some of its songs with lyrics in Mandarin. Ms. Washburn, who has spent substantial time in China, isn't dabbling here: her conviction is clear, as is her chemistry with the ensemble..." -Nate Chinen, The New York Times

"America's ambassadors of all things stringed." -Steve LaBate, Paste Magazine

"the one-of-a-kind ensemble delivers an otherworldly amalgam of Appalachian roots music and Chinese folkloric tunes...influences include Sichuan folk songs, American field recordings and work songs, Béla Bartok and Giacomo Puccini's experiments with music from the East, and a meld of American old-timey, revival gospel, grooved blues and mountain yodeling." -Dan Oulette, ABC News

"this spirited and elegant album...permanently removes Washburn from the ranks of revivalists and puts her in a broad if loosely defined art-folk community with musicians...[Washburn's] linguistic and cultural dexterity is just the starting point of the adventurousness on display...all four members show a fluid ease in moving between conventions and genres, and sometimes abandons them altogether...an unusual and unexpected album." -Jesse Fox Mayshark, No Depression

"the Sparrows are a one-of-a-kind prism capturing the glint of global perspectives and refracting it back in a hundred new and different ways." -Jewly Hight, Nashville Scene

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