Gillian Welch - Revival
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Artist: Gillian WelchEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued
CD Release Date: 2001-06-12
Music Label: Acony Records
Soundtracks:
- Orphan Girl
- Annabelle
- Pass You By
- Barroom Girls
- One More Dollar
- By the Mark
- Paper Wings
- Tear My Stillhouse Down
- Acony Bell
- Only One and Only
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Free Music Review: Walker Evans set to music.
Hit: 5 Stars
When I first heard "Revival" in 1996, I was driving from my home in Torrington, Connecticut, to North Adams, Massachusetts. It's a two-hour trip through the hilltowns of the Berkshires, one of the most intensely rural areas of New England. I had just bought the CD after reading a review, and I decided to give it a spin on my trip.
Why was I driving to North Adams? To begin the process of writing a book (Steeples) about the little city, once a milltown, and now struggling to revive itself by the installation of a major art museum in an old factory site. The songs on this CD, the spare sound of the arrangements, and the unaffected, sad voice of Gillian Welch provided a perfect background for the long, winding journey. It set the tone for my first visit, and after that, I played it every time I drove to North Adams. Gillian and David evoke, in a musical context, the great depression-era photographs of Walker Evans. And even though North Adams sits in the most northern region of the Appalachians, the songs created in me the very essence of the American struggle, and they colored every word I wrote.
A few years later, while was working on my second book about North Adams, called Disappearing Into North Adams (see www.sevensteeples.com), I decided to include the lyrics to some of the songs on "Revival," because they had become so associated with my view of the city. I just had to let readers understand how they inspired my writing. It turned out that they fit perfectly into the narrative, almost like some sort of movie soundtrack. I am so grateful that Gillian's publisher gave me permission to use them.
I now live in Massachusetts, about an hour away from North Adams, and I visit the city at least once a week. And on my CD player, "Revival" still accompanies me on that trip through the hilltowns. This amazing recording has been, in part, responsible for MY "revival," and I will never let it out of my sight.
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1996 debut produced by T. Bone Burnett, this earthy folk album was one of the strongest introductions of the year. Acony Records.Gillian Welch has captured the ethos of mountain music in a way that few lowlanders have managed, and that's just a little disconcerting. Outsiders aren't supposed to be able to infiltrate tight-knit clans. Producer T-Bone Burnett creates intimacy by recording Welch live with a small cast of supporting players, including Welch's partner, David Rawlings. While many of the songs are built around duo acoustic guitars and two-part harmonies, Burnett spices up a few of them up with some neat tricks, mixing an upright bass above the vocals on "Pass You By" and getting a fat, dirty sound out of three instruments. Welch's vocals, meanwhile, are stoical and matter-of-fact as her songs, which are infused with a repressed dread and contrition that's utterly convincing. White gospel tunes like "Orphan Girl" and "By the Mark" feel as if they were culled from hymnals, yet they were written when Clinton, not Coolidge, was president. --Steven Stolder
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