“Three women, a porch, and the oldest songs in the room — Vancouver folk that sounds like it was always there, waiting to be remembered.”
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Curatorial notes
The Be Good Tanyas began the way the best folk groups do: friends playing on a porch, not yet aware they were forming a band. Frazey Ford, Samantha Parton, and Trish Klein came together in Vancouver in the late nineties, drawn to traditional Appalachian music, old-time country, and the kind of songs that feel less written than inherited. Their debut *Blue Horse* (2001) arrived like a field...
