Password [CD-single]

Editorial Reviews
Album Details
Includes Two Exclusive Live Tracks Recorded for London Radio Station Glr.

Tracks:

Doin' It Big
General
Warrior
What's The Password?
The Password: Jesus
Stay Saved
Love Song
Okay
Wishaway
Nobody Cared (Interlude)
I'm Out
Goin' Solo
Everybody Dancin'
Teach Me Your Ways
Cute
Holy Ghost Girl
Hook U Up
ATL
On The Floor
Trippin'
Well Done
The Password (Live)

Product Description

Canton Jones has been a big-time force within the Holy Hip Hop movement and yet has seemingly been in the background for far too long. Having written, produced for, and collaborated with artists such as Lil' iROCC and Mr. Del, the head of Cajo Entertainment is now launching his national debut on Arrow Records. The follow-up to the underground classic 20 Yrs. 3 Mths. & 12 Days is The Password, which has has CJ picking up where the initial release left off, and then travel to a totally different musical stratosphere. Jones offers 15 tracks that range from ballads to funky R&P to a virtual crunkfest, and is guaranteed to keep your attention throughout the entire CD. Fantastic as a songwriter and with the ability to fuse slammin' beats with meaningful and prolific lyrics that relate candidly to the heart of the Christian experience, CJ is the real thing. "Stay Saved" is a bonafide smash hit that identifies numerous situations that test a believer's ability to do the right thing. From impatient people to road rage to poor customer service, Jones provides an honest account of very real situations that challenge a believer's love, and then offers encouragement to simply "stay saved". Its a classic that could quickly become the theme song for 2005.

Customer Reviews:

Lyfe Jennings of Gospel Music.......2007-06-09

This Cd is very nice, I would recommend it to anyone who liked Lyfe Jennings first album.

Love it.......2007-05-13

The CD came in quickly and in excellent condition. Thank you I love the entire CD.

Hip Hop For The Gospel.......2007-05-09

This is a wonderful C.D. Canton Jones knows and understands hip-hop and he uses it beautifully for the gospel of Christ. From the gritty 'Who's Doing It Big' to the Motown inspired 'Love Song', Jones pulls out all of the stops. I would definitely recommend this CD to anyone who's interested in up-to-date Christian music.

The Password: Access Granted by Canton Jones.......2007-03-22

This is an awesome cd! I first heard one of the songs after we had choir rehearsal and it was pumping. I recommend this cd to those who have an open mind about listening to Christian Rap.

OK.......2007-03-12

I only bought this CD because I love track 7-"Love song". It's not one of my favorite cds, but some songs do grow on you.

Average customer rating:

ON STARTING OVER
Transporting
This CD Just Makes Me Smile...
What a treat - original music
Integrity is the 'Password' here!

Password
Geoff Muldaur
Manufacturer: Hightone Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Contemporary Blues | Blues | Styles | Music

General | Blues | Styles | Music

General | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music

General | Folk | Styles | Music

General | Jazz | Styles | Music
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ASIN: B00004YLHE
Release Date: 2000-10-03

Tracks:

Kitchen Door Blues
Drop Down Mama
At The Christmas Ball
Wait 'Til I Put On My Robe
Some Of These Days (I'll Be Gone)
Mary Of The Wild Moors
Trouble Soon Be Over
Light Rain
Prairie Lullaby
K.C. Moan
Beautiful Isle Of Somewhere
Got To Find Blind Lemon - Part Two

Amazon.com

The problem with most postmodern pastiches (aside from the soulless chill of their irony) is the practitioners' often cursory knowledge of the cut-and-pasted genres. Geoff Muldaur has been seamlessly combining musical styles for decades. From 1963 with the Jim Kweskin Jug Band, through his duet records with then wife Maria, to his Better Days tenure and later solo work, Muldaur has lent his distinctive, bluesy, soul-drenched vibrato to tunes by everyone from Blind Lemon Jefferson to Jimmie Rodgers to Hoagy Carmichael. The man thinks nothing of combining violin, bassoon, clarinet, and French horn into Ellingtonian textures for a cowboy waltz ("Prairie Lullaby") or putting a string section and an accordion on a Charley Patton tune ("Some of These Days"). All this is done in an irony-free zone of innocent enthusiasm combined with a thorough knowledge of the song's roots. Password admits purchasers into an exclusive club where lovers of American popular music are treated to performances of blues, country, and gospel songs that are neither purist nor "pomo," but just perfect. --Michael Ross

Customer Reviews:

ON STARTING OVER.......2006-07-06

Since my youth I have had an ear for roots music, whether I was conscious of that fact or not. The origin of that interest first centered on the blues, then early rock and roll and later, with the folk revival of the early 1960's, folk music. I have often wondered about the source of this interest. I am, and have always been a city boy, and an Eastern city boy at that. Nevertheless, over time I have come to appreciate many more forms of roots music than in my youth. The subject of the following review is an example.

Geoff Muldaur took almost two decades off from the hurly-burly of travelling the old folk circuit. When I saw him at a coffeehouse upon his return to the scene I asked him what the folk revival of the 1960's was all about. He said it was about being able to play three chords to get the girls to hang around you. Fair enough. I KNOW I took my dates at the time to coffeehouses for somewhat the same reason. I guess it always comes down to that. Kudos to Freud. Seriously though, Geoff Muldaur was and is about lots more than three chords. He has developed a style that reflects the maturaton of his voice and of his interests. And besides that he has always, even in the crazy days of the 1960's, taken a serious attitude to the way he interprets a song. Example, At the Christmas Ball is an old Bessie Smith novelty tune. Geoff gives it his own twist. He likewise does that on Drop Down Mama the old Sleepy John Estes tune (I think) and fellow old time folkie Eric Von Smidt's
Light Rain. Enough said. Listen.

Transporting.......2006-03-10

This CD is absolutely beautiful. Most of all I love Kitchen Door Blues. It easily makes my favorites list. It's one of those songs you don't listen all the time so it doesn't lose its magic; like Simon & Garfunkel's version of Silent Night. This is definitely a CD worth having.

This CD Just Makes Me Smile..........2001-02-10

I have loved Geoff Muldaur's playing since I was a teenager. Never got to see him play anywhere, but had (and still have) the Kweskin albums, and Geoff's Sleepy Man Blues album. I learned my first open-tuned guitar pieces from Geoff. Then there was nothing from him for years. Secret Handshake came along, and now Password.

Geoff's voice has gotten sweeter, with the same passion of years ago. I love every tune on this CD. The duet with daughter Clare, the yodeling in Prairie Lullabye, the uplifting Kitchen Door Blues, the beautiful When I Put On My Robe with the McGarrigles, the hypnotic Light Rain - each song has something very special going on. Richard Greene on fiddle, John Sebastian on harp, Dave Alvin on high-strung, Fritz Richmond on bass, and Geoff on guitar - does it get any better than this?? Not hardly!

What a treat - original music.......2000-10-24

I first heard Geoff Muldaur in the late 60's with the Jim Kweskin jug band. I sort of lost track of him for a long time. I started noticing the critical acclaim for Secret Handshake, got it and fell in love with it. I was very happy to find there is a sequel to it.

The record has a similar mix of gospel, blues and country. He does K. C. Moan from the old jug band days. He has John Sebastian on harmonica and Fritz Richmond on jug. Richard Greene plays fiddle on a few cuts and David Lindly helps make "Kitchen Door Blues" rock.

I think the most telling thing about Geoff Muldaur to me was when I was listening to him in my living room and my friend, Muriel Anderson, was visiting. She has been national fingerpicking champion and featured performer at the Chet Atkins Appreciation Society convention. She has an awesome ear and I often have this or that playing when she is over. When she heard Geoff Maldaur she dashed to the stereo and picked up the CD saying "who is this?" She said: "this is pleasant" - she has never reacted that way to any music I have played before or since.

Geoff is in a plane by himself, more that just a fabulous musician but a musical treasurehouse.

Integrity is the 'Password' here!.......2000-10-08

An album of rare beauty in both content and execution, Password reveals the enduring quality of American folk and blues themes when interpreted by an artist who's dedicated his life to playing them. Geoff Muldaur weaves the depth of this old music through the troubled realities of today with the authority of a master storyteller, a Native Elder, passing history to the next generation. 'Kitchen Door Blues'--A gentle acoustic delta-style tune, sad yet humorous, is textured lovingly with bottleneck guitar by David Lindley. 'Drop Down Mama'--Classic Sleepy John Estes rendered by Geoff & friends with tastefully predominant fiddle by Richard Greene. 'At The Christmas Ball'--Delightful old holiday song featuring the voice of Clare Muldaur, who sounds eerily similar to Maria Muldaur. 'Wait 'Til I Put On My Robe'--Gospel in the old style as Geoff's vocals blend with the harmonies of the McGarrigle sisters to deliver the message with honesty and humility. 'Some Of These Days'--An melancholy old Charlie Patton song done tenderly and fleshed out with a very nice electric guitar solo by Billy Watts. 'Mary Of The Wild Moors'--An Irish ballad of love, family, and loss, simple and finely crafted, with lovely fiddling. 'Trouble Soon Be Over'--Geoff remakes this 'Blind Willie Johnson' composition into very listenable contemporary gospel, somewhat reminiscent of Ry Cooder's work in the same genre. 'Light Rain'--One of Geoff Muldaur's peers, Eric Von Schmidt, wrote this number and it's masterfully played here with all the delicate shading that the lyrics imply. 'Prairie Lullaby'--Written in the early 1930s by Billy Hill, and previously recorded by Geoff on his, and Maria's, 1967 'Pottery Pie' album, to be perfectly redone here 33 years later with the added bonus of Geoff's wonderful cowboy yodel ending. 'K.C. Moan'--Always extraordinary, John Sebastian's harmonica playing mixes here with jug, fiddle, lap guitar, guitar, banjo, and vocal harmonies to enrich this slow burning jug band lament. 'Beautiful Isle Of Somewhere'--This timeless longing for something more showcases the subtle strength of Geoff's uncommon voice among the accompaniment of violin, clarinet, bassoon, and french horn. 'Got To Find Blind Lemon Part Two'--Geoff, alone with his guitar, continues his search for Blind Lemon Jefferson, so poignantly begun on the previous album 'The Secret Handshake', in order that he might honor Blind Lemon's one request, to "see that my grave is kept clean". A sweet haunting Muldaur original befitting the end of this fine album which pays tribute to, and honors, all that came before.