Wonder Wheel, by The Klezmatics (official)

Wonder Wheel

by The Klezmatics (official)

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1.	Come When I Call You 04:21	buy track
2.	Mermaid's Avenue 04:29	buy track
3.	Headdy Down 04:01	buy track
4.	Gonna Get Through This World 04:02	buy track
5.	Pass Away 04:26	buy track
6.	Holy Ground 04:20	buy track
7.	Goin' Away to Sea 03:45	buy track
8.	From Here on In 02:56	buy track
9.	Wheel of Life 05:23	buy track
10.	Condorbird 03:26	buy track
11.	Orange Blossom Ring 03:37	buy track
12.	Heaven 06:07	buy track
13.	Faith Will Heal You (bonus track) 03:19	buy track
14.	I Take My Penny (bonus track) 03:02	buy track
15.	Going up the Mountain (bonus track) 04:44	buy track
16.	Ilsa Koch (bonus track) 05:32	buy track

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Wonder Wheel, a record seven years in the making, reflects Woody Guthrie’s political stance and social agenda into a larger, global mirror, and brings a 20th century American figurehead to a 21st-century audience. The Klezmatics vibrantly bring Woody’s lyrics to life, filling them with Eastern European, klezmer, Latin, Celtic, Afro-Caribbean and folk flavor, giving them a universal life of their own. Featuring Celtic vocalist Susan McKeown and multi-instrumentalist Boo Reiners and produced by GoodAndEvil (Sex Mob, Elysian Fields, Felix Da Housecat), Wonder Wheel is an intense combination of the familiar and the exotic. But above all, it is completely natural, all-encompassing, and intensely human. These Coney Island-wrought lyrics add a less-known urban dimension to a man seen as the avatar of dust- bowl ballads. But, like thousands of his songs, they were left unrecorded, their music forgotten, until now.

“The Klezmatics are wonderful… ‘Gonna get Through This World’ is a piece of GENIUS.”
– Pete Seeger

“A” ***** (5 Stars out of 5)
– Robert Christgau / The Village Voice, New York

"Another amazing set … (ranging) from quietly poignant to rollicking and infectious."
– The Montreal Gazette

“a complete joy … Guthrie’s lyrics are transformed from dust-gathers to living, breathing, vital pieces of music … Woody’s Jewish in-laws would certainly have been proud”
– All Music Guide

“Skips merrily out of the speakers and becomes the life of the party.”
– The Chicago Sun Times

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released July 25, 2006

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Since their emergence more than 30 years ago, the Klezmatics have raised the bar for Eastern European Jewish music, made aesthetically, politically and musically interesting recordings, inspired future generations, created a large body of work that is enduring, and helped to change the face of contemporary Yiddish culture. ... more

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