Coyote Oldman - The Best of Coyote Oldman: In Beauty I Walk

Primary Artist
Coyote Oldman
Album Title
The Best of Coyote Oldman: In Beauty I Walk
Release Date
February 11, 1997 
Time
72:46 
Review by Steven McDonald
A Coyote Oldman outing is always a joy to hear. This Hearts of Space compilation consists of some 74 minutes of selections from the six albums released by Michael Graham Allen and Barry Stramp (Stramp was absent from 1987's In Medicine River, where Stramp was joined by Michael Fitzsimmons on percussion.) The Coyote Oldman sound and ethic has something in common with the growing number of Native American flute albums being released to the market, but the comparison stops right there: while Allen and Stramp utilize traditional and native instruments (the majority of them made by Allen, whose custom flute-making is a lucrative sideline), the Coyote Oldman voice is greatly aided by modern recording and sound enhancement technology. Read More