If I had a hammer
The revered second album by the New York-born composer, historian and master of the hammered dulcimer.
By Andrew Male.
Striking performance Dorothy Carter gets “free and wild”
Carter in the late ’70s, Cambridge, MA
(metal) sheet music: Robert Rutman playing one of his steel cellos.
Dorothy Carter
★★★★
Waillee Waillee
PALTO FLATS. CD/DL/LP
IF YOU WERE to stumble across an original copy of Dorothy Carter’s 1978 LP Waillee Waillee prior to this reissue, you might assume it to be rare Appalachian folk. The private-press label (Carter’s own), rudimentary artwork, and the list of instruments – hammered dulcimer, psaltery, flute, piano – plus the opening track, a chiming nursery rhyme about animals’ tails entitled The Squirrel Is A Funny Thing…, would surely confirm it. However, you – by which I mean I – would be very wrong.