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Gillian Welch - Time (The Revelator) Audio CD

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Gillian Welch Band: Gillian Welch
Title: Time (The Revelator)
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Release Date: 2001-07-31
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Revelator 2: My First Lover 3: Dear Someone 4: Everything Is Free 5: Elvis Presley Blues 6: I Want To Sing That Rock And Roll 7: April 14th, Part I 8: Ruination Day, Part II 9: Red Clay Halo 10: I Dream A Highway

Listening album
Get over it. Yeah, Gillian Welch is a pop-folk-revivalist.

Personally, I find her much less patronizing and obnoxious than most revivalists, but even if she hadn't *adopted* the neo-Appalachian thing, I do like a lot of her songwriting, and I like her musical arrangements, which aren't overproduced but also aren't trying too hard to be "twangy. ".


A Classic Americana Album
"Time" is a beautiful, poetic, and soothing album. If longevity is a measure of an album's appeal, then the fact that this is still one of my favorites, SEVEN years after I purchased it surely says something. "I Want To Sing That Rock & Roll," is perhaps the happiest of the bunch. . . the rest have mournful (but not depressing) lyrics and sound. If you like Alison Krauss or Emmy Lou Harris, Gillian Welch is a sure-fire hit.


Dangerously wonderful-
This album is just. . transcendent. I'm still profoundly affected by it after nearly five years' owning the disc. Truly enough, Gillian Welch's other albums feature what might be labeled a greater "variety" of song styles, and they deserve repeated listening as well, but "Time (the Revelator)" stands alone. I love it, and dearly, precisely because of its unique, hypnotic tone and pacing. Altcountry it isn't, and this is key; Welch and her facile, idiosyncratic guitarist David Rawlings succeed in the creation of an economical yet expansive acoustic sound-world, at once spare and sophisticated, and very beautiful. A pure, resigned sadness emanates from somewhere inside most of these haunting songs; never gratuitous, but so connected to real life in its truth-telling. Other selections leave one with a sense of the death of the real USA. The vocal harmonies and string playing are innovative, always serving the mood. I don't need to ferret out every arcane reference in the lyrics, or to "get the message," I simply adore this stuff. It's a new kind of music. Let it happen to you. .


oh my yes I remember....
I was curled up in a hard wooden chair, and very hung over from a night of drinking in my old haunts. I first heard this music on a tiny boom box on John Hartford's Porch just after they had recorded some of it in an all night session in Studio B. Most of which I couldn't find after being away 20 years, but. . . Gillian & David brought me home. . . Ted The Fiddler.


One of the greatest recordings I have ever heard.
In a lifetime of listening to music, in the wake of thousands and thousands of albums sat with, there are perhaps 50 that are so self-assured, so complete, and so beautifully executed that there is nothing to say other than. . "don't let another day pass without listening to this. " Finding records like this is the whole reason I listen to music in the first place.
Sunset on a decrepit back porch with a glass of whiskey.


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