Over the past 30 years, singer-songwriter Ken Dunn has performed at hundreds of venues across the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and Central America, as well as recording 10 albums of original music.

He has shared stages with a number of well-known artists, including Jerry Jeff Walker, David Amram, and Canadian folk icons Valdy, Willie P. Bennett, and Garnet Rogers.

Notable performances include those at Canada’s Festival of Friends, a sold out concert at the historic Santa Ana Theatre in San Miguel, Mexico, the Central California Neil Young tribute show in Paso Robles, California, and Jerry Jeff Walker’s Festival in San Pedro, Belize.

With the intention of promoting peace, social, and environmental justice through music, Ken has also performed a number of benefit concerts, including those for Amnesty International, Biblioteca San Miguel, Playing For Change, L.A. Family Housing, and the Harry Chapin Food Bank of Southwest Florida.

From the classical music sounds of The Good Friday String Quartet to the driving folk rock of Gypsy Starfish, duets with partner Anna Green and Denny Kennedy, and live solo guitar and dulcimer tracks, the first anthology includes several previously unreleased, rare, and live recordings, as well as selections from many of Ken’s studio album releases over the past 25 years.

The second anthology features 18 carefully curated tracks, many of which are from studio and live recordings that were either unreleased or subject to limited distribution.

Anthology, Volume One:
1. If You’re Lost (4:21)
2. Fukushima Nightmares (3:00)
3. Letter To My Son (3:13)
4. Tahlequah (Live) (5:32)
5. Hold On (2:51)
6. Forsaken By These Blues (4:27)
7. Laughter in Your Veins (2:49)
8. Winds of Emotion (Live) (3:51)
9. Heart of Mine (3:47)
10. Old Pouring Rain (5:28)
11. Dance of the Winter Fairies (2:34)
12. Arms of Reason (2:27)
13. Mermaid of Avila (Live) (3:10)
14. Still I Believe (4:08)
15. Hard Yellow Light (3:25)
16. Hills of Strathavon (3:22)
17. One Last Question (5:43)
18. St. James Infirmary (3:56)
19. By A Windowsill (4:06)
20. Don’t Believe (Live) (3:46)

This beautifully ornate, and wholly impassioned new recording opens on the veritably classical in stance If You’re Lost and the organ-hued Fukushima Nightmares and then proceeds to brings us the ornate Letter To My Son, the sculpted Tahlequah (Live), the low slung yearn within Hold On, and then we get the countrified, harmonica-driven Forsaken By These Blues, the acoustic guitar-fed Laughter in Your Veins, the stirring Winds of Emotion (Live), and then come the beautiful, almost cinematic balladry of both Heart of Mine and Old Pouring Rain.

Along next is the delicate fare of Dance of the Winter Fairies and the harmonic Arms of Reason and they are in turn seamlessly backed by the free flowing Mermaid of Avila (Live), the mid-tempo foot tapper Still I Believe, the nibble, harmonica-imbibed Hard Yellow Light, then we get the achingly earnest Hills of Strathavon, the pictorial One Last Question, the quietly playful St. James Infirmary, the collection rounding out on the sombre tones within By A Windowsill, closing on the diligent Don’t Believe (Live).

Anthology, Volume Two:
1. This Mountain (3:27)
2. Cross of Lorraine (5:46)
3. The Rain and the Snow (2:24)
4. Precious Life (4:53)
5. Wings of Light (Live) (2:39)
6. Inside (3:28)
7. Pour Me Home (5:18)
8. Wild Horse (5:11)
9. Time and Space (3:49)
10. Song for Sarajevo (2:40)
11. Shifting Sand (4:42)
12. Some Roads (3:34)
13. Mighty Shore (5:12)
14. Burning Bridges (4:08)
15. Are You There? (Live) (4:02)
16. Saskatoon (Louie’s Song) (3:21)
17. Doomed (5:31)
18. Lover True (3:06)

The second anthology opens on the upbeat This Mountain and the ebullient Cross of Lorraine an they are followed by the beautiful storytelling within The Rain and the Snow, the achingly elegant Precious Life, the gently rambunctious Wings of Light (Live), and then comes the harmonica-driven Inside, the lonesome ode of both Pour Me Home and Wild Horse, and then comes the all-embracing Time and Space.

Up next is the melodic pop-folk skip within Song for Sarajevo and the regimented, drum-backed Shifting Sand and they are followed by the harmoniously-delicate Some Roads, the proud stalwart ambiance of Mighty Shore, the airy magnificence of Burning Bridges, the stirring Are You There? (Live), and then comes the sentimental Saskatoon (Louie’s Song), the second collection rounding out on the free-flowing Doomed, coming to a close on the ornate balladry of Lover True.

“My intention in releasing this record was to share a body of work spanning a period of 30 years that had only been available on a limited basis due to a lack of resources,” Dunn adds.

Official Volume One Purchase Link

Official Volume Two Purchase Link

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