Charlotte Daniels & Pat Webb – Nobody’s Business
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I love this record. Although I don’t know much about it. Apparently both Charlotte Daniels & Pat Webb were married and kinda big in the early ’60s urban folk music scene but I can’t find too much info about this particular album. I think this is the only collaboration they did and it was a one-off afternoon recording type thing, just picking songs off the top of their head to play together, which is what makes this so awesome.
It’s not especially folky. They play a mix of stuff, a lot of old blues, traditional ballads, and upbeat almost rockabilly tunes. Daniels has a fantastically rich voice and Webb’s guitar picking is spot on. I can’t quite explain why this record does it for me, though. I’m pretty sure it has to do with the selection of songs and Daniels’ voice, but there’s something mysterious about it that makes it endlessly enjoyable.
This record, and dozens more, belonged to a family member who recently died. They were given to me to digitize so the rest of the family could listen to them. I plan on sharing some of the most interesting ones on AGB as well, so keep an eye out for old folk records popping up under the OOPs category.
Download Charlotte Daniels & Pat Webb
This album is my new favorite thing. The songs get stuck deep in my head.
ps. hey Justin, do you think it is obvious to everyone that the bottom words in green are a link to the full length album? I probably would have missed it if I wasn’t looking specifically.
Thanks a thousand. Such a lovable record, and unexpected.
Is this currently issued ? As a teenager I knew Pat Webb for a few years – was close to his son who gave me guitar lessons. Pat and Charlotte were husband and wife. I never met her, she passed away a few years before I met Chris and Pat. I woud love to hear this. Btw enjoy your other reviews thx.
Thanks for the kind words, Isaiah. That’s so amazing that you new Pat! Sadly, I’m pretty sure this record is long out of print, however you can download it using the link at the bottom of the review. Hope that helps.
I love the amazing originality of the music from Charlotte and Pat’s son, Christopher Webb. I have his CD, Long Gone Seasons. Any idea what he is up to now?
Sorry, Sara. I don’t have any idea what Christopher is doing lately. I haven’t heard that CD, though. I’ll have to check it out!
Thank you so much for the link! I’ve been looking for this album forever. Charlotte and Pat were friends of my mother. I remember when I was little, they would visit and sit around our kitchen playing. She had such a wonderful voice.
Pat and Christopher Webb are friends of mine and they are in Brown County, Indiana. I recently finished a documentary, funded by The National Endowment for the Arts and The Indiana Arts Commission, entitled Artists Interrupted: Brown County Artists Challenged by Illness and Injury. Both Pat and Chris were subjects of the project. You can visit the website at
ArtistsInterrupted.com
for more information about them and my project.
They are both remarkable artists and still perform. Please contact me if you would like more information about these fine musicians. Pat has several CDs and Christopher has one CD.
Susan W. Showalter
Artist/Writer/Photographer
GoatHillStudio@aol.com
HandmadeinBrownCounty.com
My college roommate and bandmate played the album frequently before dropping out of Dartmouth to attend music school (Berklee) in Boston, and took it with him. I remember Charlotte Daniels’ voice and several of the songs as hauntingly beautiful and elegiac. The anthemic “Copper Kettle,” especially, is memorable for capturing the indomitable American spirit of resistance to government intrusion that we need to rekindle more now than at any time in our history. Vastly underappreciated then and now, if the folk era had an underground cult classic, this album was it. Thanks for bringing it back onto the radar screen!