Fiddler's Green, released in 2005, found Tim O'Brien at a characteristic point of creative restlessness, drawing on the broadest possible range of the Anglo-American folk tradition and reinterpreting it through the lens of a musician equally at home in bluegrass, Celtic music, old-time, and singer-songwriter forms. O'Brien, the West Virginia-born multi-instrumentalist who had come to prominence as a founding member of Hot Rize, had built a solo career of extraordinary range and consistency. His treatment of 'Buffalo Skinners,' a stark nineteenth-century occupational ballad, sits alongside Gordon Lightfoot's 'Early Morning Rain' and the traditional 'Look Down That Lonesome Road.' The album reflects a musician for whom tradition is not a constraint but a vast resource to be explored with intelligence and humility.
Tracklist
- 1 Pretty Fair Maid In The Garden 3:52
- 2 Look Down That Lonesome Road Source Recording 3:28
- 3 Fiddler's Green 3:35
- 4 Land's End/Chasin' Talon 4:22
- 5 Fair Flowers Of The Valley 4:20
- 6 Foreign Lander 4:36
- 7 Buffalo Skinners Source Recording 5:15
- 8 First Snow 2:22
- 9 Train on the Island alt version 1:44
- 10 The Long Black Veil alt version 3:02
- 11 A Few More Years 4:52
- 12 Early Morning Rain Source Recording 3:36
