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Gillian Welch - Revival Audio CD

A fair review of the Gillian Welch "Revival" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Gillian Welch reviews here, or go back to the Gillian Welch tabs.

Gillian Welch Band: Gillian Welch
Title: Revival
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Release Date: 1996-04-09
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Orphan Girl 2: Annabelle 3: Pass You By 4: Barroom Girls 5: One More Dollar 6: By the Mark 7: Paper Wings 8: Tear My Stillhouse Down 9: Acony Bell 10: Only One and Only

She'll Be Coming Around The Mountain
What they all have in common is that they form part of the line of our common mountain music heritage. The Carter Family, Maybelle and Sara Carter, June Carter Cash, Jean Ritchie and so on. I am sure that there are others whom I could have included without doing an injustice but I wanted to make this point. Just as the folk revivalists of the 1960's searched for roots musicians (once they knew they were still alive and kicking and waiting, just waiting, for a second chance) to emulate and then extend those musical traditions today there is a need for develop a new generation of mountain music singers. That task has been made infinitely easier by the emergence over the past decade or so of Gilliam Welch in order to keep this mournful mountain music alive. This CD under review, "Revival", from 1996 is my prima facie case for that last statement.

I do not, honestly, know the details of this singer's background although I have heard that she is from some upscale background in California. And that is the rub here. Before I knew that information, whether it is true or not, I would have sworn on that proverbial stack of bibles that she was from the hills and hollows of Harlan County, Kentucky or somewhere nearby. That gives her plenty of credibility in my circles. What gives her more, much more is her voice and her song selection as she goes through the mountain women's litany of troubles: not enough money, two many kids, a hard-drinking, two- fisted man who takes out his frustrations on . . . well you know the rest. And then there are the songs of lost, like "Orphan Girl" (the first song of Ms. Welch's that I ever heard), longing and, of course, out in those lonely hills facing an inscrutable god, death. Welcome to the mountain music tradition.
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Revival
Orphan Girl, Annabelle, One more dollar, and Tear my stillhouse down are all favorite songs of mine. This is my favorite album from Welch. Strange that a guy who owns the entire Black Sabbath collection also digs Gillian Welch, but I do. I'd reccomend this album. .


Soulful folk music
I wanted to be able to listen to the song Annabelle, on the cd. I bought this cd after losing my daughter in a car accident. The song means so much to me. I found so many other good tracks on there too, though. .


Gillian
What a classic album. . little known fact- Gillian recently sang a tune with a new band called The Deep Vibration, and it's available on Amazon right now for free download believe it or not. Copy/Paste the link.

http://www. amazon. com/gp/product/B001IDENSS/ref=pe_19690_11070910.


Unexpected
Worth every penny. Not really what I was expecting with a title like "Revival", but then again, who expects upbeat from Gillian Welch? Several gems.


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