Death’s Little Black Train
Death’s Little Black Train – Roman Barten-Sherman
Roman turned twenty making this record of hundred-year-old material. The sources combine Deep-Blues 78s with material mined from the collection of Arizona State Folklorist Jim Griffith. Roman’s in college now, studying Ethnomusicology and playing Jelly Roll Morton pieces on the piano. Roman is a ‘restringing’ lefty player, very unusual to start with, but even perceiving the music backwards, is a flat virtuoso player on whatever chosen instrument.