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By Kim Ruehl, About.com Guide to Folk Music since 2005

Review: Stairwell Sisters - Get Off Your Money

Monday May 12, 2008
Stairwell Sisters - Get Off Your Money CD CoverThe Stairwell Sisters' third album, Get Off Your Money, kicks off the way all good old timey albums should: with a fast-moving, dance-inducing fiddle tune. From there, the record goes into a collection of classic old school, old timey traditional tunes and a handful of well-composed originals.

Out of the 17 tunes on this album, more than half of them are pulled from the pool of traditional folk songs that so many old timey bands cull from time to time. Some ("Hangman's Tree," "Stay All Night") are a little more inspired than others ("Boat's Up the River"), but the Sisters give them all excellent arrangements and performances...read my full review

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