While Dorothy Carter missed out on experiencing the sudden mad rush of creativity that her music helped to inspire, the reissue of Troubadour, with its singular, strange and beautiful tunes, is a good sign that her star is once again in the ascendency.
Dorothy Carter’s 1976 debut album, Troubadour, is to be reissued for the first time by Drag City. Taken from that album, listen to the mesmerising Masquerade, released as a single today.
Troubadour, the 1976 debut album of American composer and master dulcimerist Dorothy Carter is to be reissued for the first time by Drag City. Listen to the first single, “The King of Glory,” a hypnotic hymn hammered by Dorothy evoking Western medieval music.
