Sonya Cohen Cramer - "You've Been a Friend to Me" (Official Audio)

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Listen to Sonya Cohen Cramer's "You've Been a Friend to Me," from her new album of the same name. Recorded in 2014 and originally penned in 1858, this sweet Carter Family favorite features Daniel Littleton, Elizabeth Mitchell, and Bill Vanaver on autoharp. Purchase/Stream: Smithsonian Folkways: https://folkways.si.edu/sonya-cohen-c... Bandcamp: https://sonyacohencramer.bandcamp.com... All other platforms: https://orcd.co/sonya-cohen-cramer Sonya Cohen Cramer (1965–2015) was raised in a family committed to revitalizing the oldest songs of the American musical canon. Like her father John Cohen of The New Lost City Ramblers, Sonya shared a belief in the transformative qualities of folk songs and traditional ballads. You’ve Been a Friend to Me is the first collection featuring Sonya’s singing, and it reveals the full arc of her musical life through collaborations with her aunt Peggy Seeger, uncle Pete Seeger, Elizabeth Mitchell, Daniel Littleton, and the folk-fusion group Last Forever. While shaped by the roots of her family tree, the radiating and clear sound of Sonya’s voice is distinctly her own.  Smithsonian Folkways: https://folkways.si.edu Facebook: / smithsonianfolkwaysrecordings Twitter: / folkways Instagram: / smithsonianfolkways Support our work, become a Friend of Folkways: https://folkways.si.edu/friends-of-fo... The content and comments posted here are subject to the Smithsonian Institution copyright and privacy policy (www.si.edu/copyright). Smithsonian reserves the right in its sole discretion to remove any content at any time.