CARTER, DOROTHY – Waillee Waillee

"We are excited to announce the first ever reissue of American composer and multi-instrumentalist, Dorothy Carter. Originally released in 1978, Waillee Waillee remains an unheralded folk/psych/drone masterpiece. Dorothy Carter was many things – a virtuoso player, storyteller, historian of Celtic and Appalachian folk music, lifelong busker, avant-garde musician, and itinerant troubadour, laying a framework for music that existed both within and outside of standard folk idioms – never better represented than on this album. Underscored by Bob Rutman’s cavernous bowing of the steel cello, the richness of Waillee Waillee’s sound produces an album unlike any other in her discography. In particular, its two side-ending pieces, “Summer Rhapsody” and “Tree of Life,’’ glide with the shimmering filigree of hammered dulcimer and Dorothy Carter’s ephemeral voice floating over Rutman’s droning buzz of the steel cello. The elements of these two tracks suggest something akin to a transcendental Appala