Baby Gramps Discography of CDs

Baby Gramps CD discography A session between two fringe musician lifers and accomplished song collectors, perennial Seattle street performer Baby Gramps and once/future Holy Modal Rounder and crazed N.Y.C. folkie Peter Stampfel, Outertainment is a mixed bag of acoustic folk from the pair's ever-evolving songbooks. Stampfel, especially, remained busy and authentically delighted with music-making in his seventies, recording discs in 2010 and 2011 with anti-folker Jeffrey Lewis, a group of New York regulars called the Ether Frolic Mob, the WORM All-Stars, and others. Where both excel in front of live audiences, it is Stampfel's tunes that come over best on the hourlong effort. Not that he's much more of a traditional singer than Gramps, but his wavering and enthusiastic voice is more easily communicated than Gramps' scratch-throated howl. He is more prone to tenderness, too, especially on the stumbling yodel of Snow White's "Heigh Ho," as well as another bit of pop culture detritus from Stampfel's childhood, "Asleep in the Deep" (rewritten as "New Sleep in the Deep"), first ...

Baby Gramps songs Liner Note Author: Glenn Howard. Personnel: Baby Gramps (guitar).

Baby Gramps albums Track Listing of songs: Cape Cod Girls; Mingulay Boat Song; My Son John; Fire Down Below; Turkish Revelry; Bully In The Alley; Cruel Ship''s Captain; Dead Horse; Spanish Ladies; Coast Of High Barbary; Haul Away Joe; Dan Dan; Blood Red Roses; Sally Brown; Lowlands Away; Baltimore Whores; Rolling Sea; Mermaid;