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  • Summary: Produced by Doug Petty, the San Francisco-based string quartet worked with Sam Amidon, Olivia Chaney, Rhiannon Giddens and Natalie Merchant on this album of seven traditional folk songs (as well Geeshie Wiley's Last Kind Words and Rhiannon Giddens' Lullaby).
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Oh Where
Oh where, oh where Has my little dog gone? Oh where, oh where can he be? With his ears cut short And his tail cut long Oh where, oh where can he... See the rest of the song lyrics
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  1. Jun 9, 2017
    80
    Folk Songs is a smart and emotionally effective exploration of the folk tradition that respects musical history without being chained to it, and it's an experiment the Kronos Quartet would do well to repeat in the future.
  2. Jun 9, 2017
    70
    If there's one general criticism to be made here it could be that the album lingers a bit too much in a dark and dramatic mood (especially in the first four songs), but that's less an outright flaw and more a desire for more of the playfulness that appears in the second half of the record.
  3. Uncut
    Jun 9, 2017
    70
    These nine tracks find the foursome reworking a suite of folk and roots songs with their trademark chilly decorum, joined by a brace of Nonesuch labelmates. [Jul 2017, p.32]
  4. Q Magazine
    Jun 9, 2017
    60
    The familiarity of the material is offset by the uniqueness of the approach. [Aug 2017, p.104]
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