Ivan Skobtsov was an operatic bass at the Bolshoi for 28 years, but his real achievement was as an interpreter of Russian folk song. The small format 33&1/3 Melodiya album in my collection has only six songs, with unpretentious accordion arrangements. From its disc number, I would guess it dates from the late 1960s or early 1970s. The songs are mostly dark, tragic, or plaintive, of course.… … totally Russian.
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