David Ackles - American Gothic
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Artist: David AcklesEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2003-02-11
Music Label: Collector's Choice
Soundtracks:
- American Gothic
- Love's Enough
- Ballad Of The Ship Of State
- One Night Stand
- Oh, California!
- Another Friday Night
- Family Band
- Midnight Carousel
- Waiting For The Moving Van
- Blues For Billy Whitecloud
- Montana Song
Free Music Notes for American Gothic
Free Music Review: The Scene Behind Grant Wood's Painting
Hit: 5 Stars
Ackle's penultimate album contains the consumate rural romance,'Montana Song', whose 10 minutes alone makes this a rewarding collection. It's not the expressive voice rising directly from its rural source. It's the urban striving to recuperate a faded vision,filtered through a city sophisticate's sensibility. Richie Unterberger, writing the liners, is right on the pulse in describing Ackle's vision as a blend of 'rock instrumentation with a Brecht-Weillian theatrical sense and dark Americana. 'Montana Song's' mini-operatic reach appropriates themes from Aaron Copeland's,'Appalachian Spring'. Despite announcing at the outset that he's found what he went looking for, we sense the narrator's desperation as he seeks ancestral connexions on a remote and ruined farm, armed only with the family bible as a guide to the C19th. Ackle's voice, in great shape throughout, hits some of its tenderest notes as this anxious journey discloses generational repudiation of the land in favour of fin de siecle city lights. A poignant roarness emerges as the grandmother, Leantha McKinnon, becomes resigned to widowhood in 1921, echoing her husband's regret when his sons departed. The narrator is soothed by his discoveries. The bible entries are made more meaningful as he moves about in the prairie breeze. No matter how close the strings and horns follow the narrative, Ackle's emoting is closer to us and a little apart, so that the music swells, rolls, clouds and clears as landscaspe in dialogue with the narrator's conscience. His shifting tonalities save the story from cinematic schmaltz: a remarkable performance that will always live for me. This is an album of considerable rear vision.'Family Band', the eerie,'Ship of Fools','Another Friday Night', 'Waiting for the Moving Van' - the varied themes of each are shaped by a profound sense of loss. The raucous,'Midnight Carousel', and the cruel lament for,'Billy Whitecloud', with its cabaret mockery, expand Ackle's take on small town American misfits. He's successfully animated the woodworms in Grant Wood's stuffy, iconic skeletons, pressed close to us on the cover.
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Produced by Elton John?s songwriting partner Bernie Taupin, American Gothic is probably Ackles? best-known album despite being the farthest-removed from a conventional rock release?just to give you an idea, the main session players hailed from the London Symphony! But the dark lyrical portrait of America painted by Ackles was so colorful, and his overall vision so compelling, that it stands up to repeated listenings as a multilayered piece of musical theater. Includes "American Gothic," "Love?s Enough," "Ballad of the Ship of State," "One Night Stand," "Oh, California!," "Another Friday Night," "Family Band," "Midnight Carousel," "Waiting for the Moving Van," "Blues for Billy Whitecloud" and "Montana Song." A true work of art.Folk Music CDs
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