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20-Mar-2015
by Harley Jones
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 The Accordions Worldwide news for the week ending March 16th 2001 included an article concerning a CD review listed by Accordions Worldwide, where the accordionist was unknown until he came forward upon reading the review. It was highly regarded accordionist John MacDonald. There is a surprising number of recordings, usually of instrumental music, published each year with little or no credit given to the performers. It is an unjust shame whenever the efforts of musicians are overlooked by record companies. Mystery Accordionist Found! The February 16th 2001 CD review by Tania Lukic-Marx was on a CD entitled ‘Accordion Instrumental’. At that time we were unable to establish the name of the performer. Australian accordionist John MacDonald read the review and knew that he was the artist on the CD! A number of John's early recordings have been re-released many times by different record companies over the years, and it was by sheer chance that he learnt this album had been put together using tracks recorded years ago. We are pleased to be able to give John credit for this CD and have amended our review accordingly. It is amazing that no credit had been given to John or any of the backing musicians on the album. We can only hope that in other parts of the world, the skills of professional accordionists are better recognised by record companies than has happened in Australia. |