Jesse Winchester - Love Filling Station
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Artist: Jesse WinchesterEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2009-04-21
Music Label: Appleseed Records
Soundtracks:
- O What a Thrill
- Bless Your Foolish Heart
- Wear Me Out
- Stand By Me
- It's a Shame About Him
- Sham-A-Ling-Dong-Ding
- I'm Gonna Miss You Girl
- I Turn to My Guitar
- Lonely for a While
- Eulalie
- Far Side Bank of Jordan
- Loose Talk
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Free Music Review: On "Love Filling Station," Winchester Primes the Pump for Good Songs
Hit: 5 Stars
Prime Cuts: I Turn to My Guitar, Lonely for a While, Sham-A-Ling-Dong-Ding
Winchester knows full well that it all comes down to a song. If a song has the ability to stir the heart, even when it is scantily clad with just guitar and drums, it is still a brilliant song. And he certainly knows how to works his magic with his latest CD "Love Filling Station" by filling the entire album with such songs backed by a simple, rustic and understated folk-country arrangement making the entire listening experience relaxing and soothing. Yet, for the uninitiated, a word needs to be said about Winchester's background. Known for his prolific handling of his scribal pen, Winchester has written for artists as diverse as Patti Page ("Brand New Tennessee Waltz") to Wynonna Judd ("Just Like New") to Dan seals ("Gentlemen of Leisure") to Reba McEntire ("You Remember Me"). As an artist, Winchester has not been that prodigious; "Love Filling Station" is his first release in the last decade. Such a lack of product is understandable considering that the vocals of Winchester show a touch of grey --this is especially evident in his lack of breadth and the vocal strain when he tries to hit the higher notes with his shrill high tenor.
Nevertheless, what he lacks in the vocal department is more than made up in the writing department. Album opener "O What a Thrill" (a Winchester original first recorded by the Mavericks) takes Winchester on another level of artistry as Winchester shows that he too can groove along on a Roy Orbison-influenced rockabilly. While burgeoning love may be the theme of "O What a Thrill," the journey of love into a couple's autumnal years is the subject of the gentle acoustic guitar-driven "Sham-A-Ling-Dong-Ding." Here Winchester's sombre and tender delivery perfectly captured the romantic tenor of this superior ballad. Equally endearing is Winchester's touching treatment to of a trifecta of melancholic entries that deal with loss, "I'm Gonna Miss You Girl," "I Turn to My Guitar" and "Lonely for a While."
Despite being one of country music's primer tunesmith, Winchester is not given to self-indulgence. He does pay homage to other songwriters by tackling three covers. Never one to be accused of being prissy, B. B. King's "Stand By Me" is given a new sheen when Winchester gives it a country-like reading backed by a bevy of strings. While on Carl Smith's uptempo "Loose Talk," Winchester shares his woes with bluegrass diva Claire Lynch on about the horrendous effects of wagging tongues and provincial minds on a marriage. Lyrically, Winchester takes a better turn on the hopeful southern Gospel classic "Far Side of Jordan" where the militant tone and Winchester's spirited performance are the song's highlight.
After all these years and after writing thousands of songs, Winchester still shows that he still has it in him to produce songs of the highest quality. Carefully crafted narratives, well developed plots and life related themes are what make Winchester's songs so sublime. And the songs on this CD are testimonial of that. On "Love Filling Station," Winchester still primes the pump for the best a song can ask for.
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You could stock a crowd-pleasing jukebox with the songs Jesse Winchester has written and recorded in the last four decades - and with the better-known versions of his songs that have become hits and album staples for artists ranging from Joan Baez to Elvis Costello to Jimmy Buffett. Winchester's skill in capturing vivid small town vignettes, heartfelt love and love-lost situations, and goodtime celebrations has yielded a litany of I-know-that-songs: "Yankee Lady," "Biloxi," "Brand New Tennessee Waltz," "Talk Memphis," "Rhumba Girl," "Payday," "I'm Gonna Miss You, Girl," "Let's Make a Baby King" and many more. His 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Composters, Artists and Publishers (ASCAP) is one gauge of the music world's esteem; Bob Dylan naming Jesse as one of the best songwriters of his generation is another.Love Filling Station, Winchester's Appleseed debut and his first studio CD in a decade, offers nine characteristically top-flight originals among its dozen songs. It also highlights Jesse as a graceful, soulful vocalist, as memorable a singer as a songwriter. His light southern tenor drawl, warmly wrapped in country/bluegrass/folk arrangements, can gently ascend to the heavens a la Roy Orbison, as in the lovestruck wonderment of "O What a Thrill" (already covered by The Mavericks), dish some sly, wry dirt ("It's a Shame About Him") and even capture the sublime hush of Ben E. King's classic "Stand By Me," one of the CD's three covers. The lightly rocking "Wear Me Out," another original, mixes a mock-plaintive vocal of sexual exhaustion with a funky, gospel-tinged call-and-response as the great bluegrass solo artist and sideman Jerry Douglas threads carnal lap steel guitar licks throughout the song.
Aside from Douglas's guest shot, some of the core musicians on Love Filling Station are the equally estimable Russ Barenberg (guitar, mandolin); Mark Fain (bass) and Andy Leftwich (fiddle) from Ricky Scaggs' band; Jesse himself (guitar, keyboards, lead and backing vocals); and solo artist Claire Lynch, who summons her inner Dolly Parton on "Loose Talk," an uptempo country lament about wagging tongues and provincial minds.
The strength, sincerity and humor of Winchester's songs combine the laidback gentility of his Memphis upbringing with the perspective and longing of his longtime Canadian exile, self-imposed in 1967 upon receipt of his draft notice. Repatriated in Virginia with an American-born wife since 2002, Winchester sounds happy to be home on Love Filling Station, and we're glad to have him back.
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