Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Hein & Oss Kröher

Artist: Hein & Oss Kröher
LP: Songs of the World
Song: "On the Grand Canyon Line"
[ listen ]

What better to listen to first thing in the morning than a pair of German identical twin brothers singing old western-American cowboy ballads? This 1968 LP by Heinrich and Oskar Kröher that I found at 2nd Avenue Records down in Portland, Oregon back in February also features a nice rendition of "Streets of Lardeo." You can read about Hein & Oss here, where the oddly-translated text will inform you that, in addition to singing, "the brothers also operate a writer" and that the twins have performed all over Europe, as well as throughout the USA—"from California to the New York Iceland." The album's liner notes in English and German are included below.

 [ Heinrich & Oskar—or maybe Oskar & Heinrich—in 2007 ]

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