Wilderness Songs

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Krista Detor
Tim Grimm
Scott Russell Sanders
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WILDERNESS PLOTS ON PBS

The WILDERNESS PLOTS feature filmed by WTIU PUBLIC TELEVISION was broadcast numerous times locally in March 2008, won a regional Emmy, and was broadcast nationally by PBS in 2009.

Wilderness Plots—in word and song—captures the hardships, ironies and aspirations of early pioneer life in the Ohio Valley. This unique project, featuring the written word of renowned author Scott Russell Sanders and original songs by Tim Grimm, Carrie Newcomer, Krista Detor, Tom Roznowski, and Michael White, is recorded here in a 56 minute glimpse into history.

The DVD from this broadcast is available for purchase.


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A tour d'force collection of songs by five exceptional songwriters.

WILDERNESS PLOTS THE CD & BOOK ARE AVAILABLE AT THE FOLLOWING INDIANA LOCATIONS:

Indiana Historical Society
www.indianahistory.org
450 W Ohio Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202
Phone: 317-232-1882

Wandering Turtle Art Gallery
art@wanderingturtle.com
http://www.wanderingturtle.com
224 N. College Avenue
Bloomington, IN 47404
Phone: 812-330-1990
Fax: 812-330-1994

Howard's Bookstore
116 Fountain Square
Bloomington, IN 47404
Phone: 812-336-7662
Fax: 812-336-6730

Landlocked Music
314 South Washington
Bloomington, IN 47401
www.myspace.com/landlockedbton
www.landlockedmusic.com

The Gift Shop at
William Henry Harrison’s Grouseland
3 West Scott Street
Vincennes, IN 47591
Phone: 812-882-2096


EMAIL US AT:
WildernessPlots@gmail.com

SCOTT RUSSELL SANDERS, AUTHOR
WILDERNESS PLOTS (The Book)

Publisher:
Wooster Book Company
205 W. Liberty Street
Wooster, OH 44691
http://www.woosterbook.com

"IF EDGAR LEE MASTERS had been a singer-songwriter rather than poet and attorney, he might have created Wilderness Plots instead of the Spoon River Anthology. Except Wilderness Plots takes place a few decades earlier than Spoon River and mostly about 200 miles east of it. In order to understand the CD Wilderness Plots it's essential to understand its genesis. Singer-songwriter Tim Grimm came across a small book full of very short stories, each based on at least a kernel of history, part truth, part folktale. He immediately saw songs in them and took the book to his songwriting group, who each wrote songs based on stories in the book. That group, Krista Detor, Tim Grimm, Carrie Newcomer, Tom Roznowski and Michael White wrote and recorded the 19-song CD Wilderness Plots. There isn't a single bad song here, the material is good to brilliant. Similarly, the performances and production range from very good to superb.....If I had to pick one song from the album, Detor's "Aurora Means Dawn" sung as a duet with Grimm is riveting and heart grabbing. Grimm's "Frostbite On The Soul" has a great bouncy, bluegrass-style setting while telling the story of a circuit riding preacher and his fate with a bit of sorrow add a bit of humor.... Each song here is a gem unto itself."
~ Rich Warren, SING OUT! and host of
The Midnight Special

"WILDERNESS PLOTS IS A GIFT to teachers and students of all ages, a chance to build a bridge to the past and better understand the present, to teach history that will be recalled well after the test is taken."
~ Melissa Keller, PhD, Indiana University Bloomington School of Education (specialist in historical education)

KRISTA DETOR is a CoraZong Records recording artist. Originally from California but making her home in Bloomington, Indiana, Krista has traveled the world and written down much of what she has seen of the people and places along the way. Recent releases are the highly acclaimed "Mudshow" and "Cover Their Eyes," and as of February 2010, "Chocolate Paper Suites."

"She would be good on every stage in the world."
~ Rolling Stone

"Concrete and surreal. . . melodic and strong. . . you believe it all and follow..."
~ Dirty Linen

TIM GRIMM is an actor (stage, film, and television) and Wind River recording artist. He lives on an 80-acre farm, not far from where he grew up. Named 2004 Roots-Americana Male Artist of the Year, his latest release "The Back Fields" was Best Americana Album~2006 in The Just Plain Folks Music Awards.

"An artist who never fails to deliver."
~ Dirty Linen

"The Poet Laureate of the rural Midwest."
~ Midwest Folk Live

"The song 'Rebecca Versailles' is one of the most powerful statements (written) about education and the path to equal opportunity"
~ Roger Wise, KGNU - Boulder, CO

SCOTT RUSSELL SANDERS is a writer who lives in the hardwood hill country of southern Indiana. Among his more than twenty books are novels, collections of short stories, and works of personal nonfiction, including Staying Put, Hunting for Hope, and A Private History of Awe. He has taught for more than three decades at Indiana University, where he is a distinguished professor of English.

"The language of these tales is chiseled, spare to the point of folklore: every word carries a lovely weight. Seldom has America's early story been so beautifully told."
~ Publishers Weekly

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