Crole River

Demo versions and a bit of history of the Crole River songs are found at my soundcloud site, but the CD gives the full experience. The music is in a range of styles: blues, country, rock, folk, Christian, reggae and Latin, but all American, built on heavenly vocals over acoustic guitar, with bass and drums on 11 out of the 16 songs. 

Here are excerpts of I Paved the Path, sung by Lydia Salnikova, and Goin’ to the Mardi Gras, sung by Alexandra Fessenko: 

N.B. The CroleRiver.com website is defunct.

The Crole River group was a partnership between Charles Dermer and Alexandra Fessenko to make the Crole River album of music. I later employed Lydia Salnikova to cover vocals on 9 of the songs. The album includes 11 songs that I composed over the last many years and decades, as well as 5 that I wrote in 2016. The Crole River album was released in spring of 2017.

A bonus track has been added to the Crole River album, a reprise of the song He is My God, in Russian, Он мой Господь, which was adapted, arranged and performed on piano by Lydia Salnikova. 

Some of the history of Crole River songs can be found on the notes to the demo versions of the songs at my soundcloud site.

This is a fragment of the Ballad of Annie and Eddie, sung by Alexandra Fessenko.

Crole river chord, style, and lyric sheets:

Other documentation related to Crole River is in the protected link. To access content, please use the contact form. The lyrics and charts to the Crole River songs are here. The CD art is reproduced here.

I have posted some music videos with Alexandra Fessenko and myself on youtube of what was to become the Crole River sound.