Artist:
Birch Book
Overview:
BIRCH BOOK are better know as IN GOWAN RING.
Format:
CD
Additional Info.:
Fortune & Folly is the fitting second volume of Birch Book. Assuming the allegorical emblems of The Wheel of Fortune and The Traveling Fool, Fortune & Folly distill the introspections of a perennial rambler reckoning 'the Bitter and the Bliss' of The Road Less Traveled. Drifting away from the overtly psychedelic, medieval, and soporific atmosphere of Gowan Ring, B'ee displays a more organic, individualistic approach to songwriting. Fortune & Folly blends elements of idiosyncratic folk-pop and outcast-country with brooding layers of sound and sense.

As poet, pilgrim, progenitor of wyrd-folk and maestro of In Gowan Ring, Jon Michael B'eirth (otherwise B'ee) has developed a homespun sonic tapestry with peculiar richness of vision; recording over ten full length albums and performing throughout North America & Europe in veritable itinerant fashion amidst a dozen years against the grain.
The vinyl edition of this classic folk milestone comes in heavy fold-out cover, with 2 exclusive extra songs. Limited to 400 copies. Released late January 2009 on Steinklang.

Track List:
A1 Birch Sap
A2 New Song
A3 Whisper In The Pine
A4 Young Souls
A5 New Joy
A6 Diaspora
A7 The Wandering Boy

B1 Zephyr Through Willows
B2 The Trip Goes On
B3 The Carnival Is Empty
B4 Birch Sap
B5 Alone
B6 Wheel Of Fortune