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Traveler Against the Storm (2010) 08:12
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Traveler's March (2010) 05:20
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Traveler's Time (2010) 08:56
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Full Moon Traveler (2010) 05:30
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A Traveler's Got No Home (2010) 04:05
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Traveler Climbs the Ridge (2011) 04:45
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Distant Traveler (2011) 05:22
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Straight Line Traveler (2011) 08:38
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Calling the Traveler Down That Road (2011) 04:50
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Traveler's Evening Song (2011) 06:01
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Hurricane Traveler (2011) 05:19
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Ever-Changing Traveler (2012) 07:17
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Travelers On the Path (2013) 05:56
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Traveler's New Bike (2014) 03:07
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Solitary Traveler (2014) 09:16
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Traveler in a Hard World (2014) 06:18
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Traveler in the City (2015) 05:16
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Traveler and the Birds (2015) 05:10
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Ever since we started this worldwide music-and-sound-sharing event known first as ImprovFriday and now Sound-In (www.sound-in.org), one of our most steadfast regulars has been Jim Goodin. Though long a Brooklyn resident and software programmer, Jim's roots come out of the hills and valleys of Arkansas. Though not afraid to use new technology in his music, when he picks up the guitar, oud, or fiddle, or maybe even sings a bit, what comes out has a simple sincerity, a bit of "artless art", that calls to mind that place he's come so far from, yet carries forever.

In the course of our Sound-In events, one of my main contributions is to gather some of the various improvised tracks that have come in that day, cobble them together into a mash-up that magically becomes an integral whole, and then slap my own title onto that result. Way back when, while making one of these mash-ups that happened to strongly feature Jim Goodin playing, my mind keyed on the old song "The Arkansas Traveler". The Appalachian idea of The Traveler seemed to just jibe naturally with whatever vibe Jim's playing was giving off, and did again and again during subsequent Sound-In events. So was born my own fuzzy mythology of our Traveler, as represented by Jim's music and voice.

Over the years, there grew to be quite a number of "Traveler" pieces from these mash-ups, and I thought it might be a good idea to collect them into a single album; to let other listeners wander through this modern-day-set of sonic folktales. Though these are mash-ups of contributed tracks from many different musicians all over the country and world, working in all sorts of styles, the common thread of Jim's improvisations pulls them all into a weird sort of Americana. Admittedly an Americana that all kinds of other universes, ghosts and even monsters leak through the cracks, but Americana nonetheless.

This is a long collection; the length of a feature film, really. So maybe it's best to approach it as such, a collection of scenes, actions, atmospheres, that somehow tell the story of our Traveler.

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released November 8, 2015

All tracks feature Jim Goodin as performer, and are mashed/mixed by Steve Layton. The other Sound-In musicians heard here (listed separately with each track's info) are: Johnny Porto & Faith Young, Chris Vaisvil, Shane Cadman, Adam Kondor, Steve Moshier, Kavin Allenson, Gaetano Fontanazza, James Ross, Gérald Degroote, Benjamin Smith, Richard Sanderson, Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, Roger Sundström, Steve Moyes, Jeff Fairbanks, J.C. Combs, Paul H. Muller, Jeff Duke, Paul Mimlitsch, Glenn Smith, Fabio Keiner, Ojo Taylor, and William Newbold.

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Composer, performer, recordist, connector, facilitator. Editor of Sequenza21.com, a long-running website reporting on contemporary classical music.
Collaborator at ImprovFriday/Sound-In, a weekly web gathering of musicians from around the globe. NiwoSound is an umbrella for innovative art music / art sound. ... more

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