VINTAGE c1950 FOLK SINGER SUSAN REED "I KNOW MY LOVE" RARE "X" 10" EX VINYL LP
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Description
VINTAGE
c1950
FOLK SINGER SUSAN REED
"I KNOW MY LOVE"
RARE "X" RCA LXA-3019
10" DEEP GROOVE VINYL "FULL FIDELITY" LP
CONDITION: EX / EX
Susan Reed (January 11, 1926 – April 25, 2010) was an American Folk Singer, Harpist, and Zitherist known for singing old Irish, English and Appalachian ballads while accompanying herself on zither or Irish harp.
A regular on the New York folk scene, Life magazine dubbed her "the pet of Manhattan nightclubbers" in 1945. Folk music collector Carl Sandburg and musician Huddie Ledbetter (a.k.a. Leadbelly) were family friends, as were visiting Irish actors and musicians from the Abbey Theatre Company of Dublin.
Alan Lomax, renowned authority on American folk music, hailed her as a leading voice in a rebirth of the genre. “One of the most heartening things about America in 1947 is the spring freshet of enthusiasm for native balladry and folklore that is running through the country from coast to coast,” Mr. Lomax wrote in The New York Times. “Big, dulcet-voiced Burl Ives from Indiana, Josh White with his South Carolina blues, Woody Guthrie with his Okie songs, and Susan Reed with her Southern lyric songs have become nationally known.” She received recognition in the mid-1940s when Barney Josephson, the owner of the Cafe Society nightclub, spotted her and gave her her big break.
She went on to sing on radio and television, at Town Hall in New York, and at dozens of concerts a year around the country. She recorded for RCA Victor, Columbia and Elektra. In 1946, she appeared on Broadway in “Shooting Star,” a musical about Billy the Kid. And in 1948 she co-starred with Gene Krupa in the movie "Glamour Girl," playing a backwoods girl who sings folk songs and is brought to the big city to perform.
She became known not only for her singing and harp, but for her work on the zither as well -- along with Ruth Welcom, Reed was a beneficiary of the craze for the latter instrument caused by the movie The Third Man when it opened in America in 1950. Reed later recorded albums for Jac Holzman's Elektra Records, and was working steadily across the early '50s.
Like various other folk artists who had the temerity to go against the grain and actually stand for something, Reed found herself blacklisted in the second half of the 1950s. She thus joined the ranks of Pete Seeger and the other members of the Weavers, and singers like Jo Mapes, who suddenly found themselves persona non grata in most major venues. As a result, her broadcast and recording career came to a halt and her performing eventually followed.
This scarce landmark 10" folk album is a rare treasure for any folk music enthusiast.
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