No-No Boy

Add Date: April 6

Artist: No-No Boy

Album: 1975

Label: Smithsonian Folkways

Genre: Avant folk, chamber folk

Comments: 1975 is the second full-length from No-No Boy, the project of Julian Saporiti. From the promoter: "The songs, which were recorded as part of Saporiti’s Ph.D. dissertation at Brown University, use traditional American folk music sounds to question the concept of the genre... Production-wise, they are informed by Saporiti's desire to 'put the sound back into history' via tapes of oral histories, field recordings, and the use of outmoded recording technology. The album's 12 songs are guided by Saporiti's desire to 'rethink what we think of as authenticity for popular American music,' as filtered through his perspective as a first-generation Vietnamese American who came of age in the folk, country, and indie rock scenes of Nashville."

Recommended Tracks: 2, 8, 5, 7

DNP: 3, 9