Gob Iron, a new collaboration between Jay Farrar and Anders Parker, have launched with the release of their first CD, Death Songs For The Living, in stores now.

This spontaneously created but strikingly coherent album stands as a real-time landmark from these two musical and spiritual kinsmen. Employing what Pete Seeger once dubbed "the folk process," Farrar and Parker have re-imagined songs by the likes of Stephen Foster, the Stanley Brothers, the Rev. JM Gates and others, interpolating elements of other traditional pieces as well as writing new, sometimes highly personal lyrics, so that the results sound both ancient and immediate, bringing a new layer of authenticity to the material.

It was as if the very atmosphere of America was filling the lungs of the two artists as they sang.

If you would like to win a copy of this brand new CD, just answer this easy question: As stated above, a number of tracks on Death Songs for the Living illustrate this concept of "the folk process." For example, "Silicosis Blues" combines the titular lyric with the melody from another song, but which one?!

Send me your answers and if you're correct you'll be in the running to win one of these great new CDs! Just send us an e:mail here before December 1st with your answer and the subject title CONTEST: GOB IRON CD to: exclusivemagazine@flash.net