Elisabeth Welch In Concert - Elisabeth Welch

Advantages: She is one talented lady
Disadvantages: This album's not long enough!

...I was introduced to the music of Gillian Welch by a friend recently returned from a road-trip across the Southern States of the US. Bursting with enthusiasm, "this is RIGHT up your street" he said, and handed me a copy of 'Soul Journey' - Welch's fourth, most recent album (released 2003). On that intriguing recommendation I came home and put the CD on immediately. After only the first few bars of the opening track "Look at Miss Ohio" I'm whisked away to a dusty, dirt-tracked daydream, where the Kansas sun beats down on the open plane, spreading its pinky-orange glow all around... I'm transported. I'd never heard of Gillian Welch before, so was surprised to learn that she is a hugely successful artist - both commercially and critically - in the States, and, increasingly, here in the UK. Born in New York, raised in California... Read review

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Advantages: Some good songs
Disadvantages: And some clangers

...at the time]. BACKGROUND Nine and a half weeks was released in 1986 and starred the aforementioned Mickey Rourke as John [quite the man of mystery - very little was ever known about him] and Kim Basinger as Elisabeth [a beautiful assistant in an art gallery]. Their relationship was a very intense one, due mainly to the sex games that John liked to play. This lead to emotional complications for Elisabeth, who in some part seemed almost addicted to the man she knew virtually nothing about, and in most part appeared desperately frustrated with him. Anyway, the soundtrack to this, as you may imagine, tries to reflect the ambience of the movie, but fails. At the time the songs were perfectly adequate because of the era this movie was made in. Today, they might come across a little cheesey, but let's not forget that they are 21 years old... Read review

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Advantages: Wonderful music flawlessly presented
Disadvantages: This genre is Not for everyone!

...by James Carter & the Prisoners 2. Big Rock Candy Mountain by Harry McClintock 3. You Are My Sunshine by Norman Blake 4. Down to the River to Pray by Alison Krauss 5. I am a Man of Constant Sorrow by The Soggy Bottom Boys 6. Hard Time Killing Floor Blues by Chris Thomas King 7. I am a Man of Constant Sorrow by Norman Blake (violin only) 8. Keep on the Sunny Side by The Whites 9. I’ll Fly Away by Alison Krauss and Gillian Welch 10. Didn’t Leave Nobody but the Baby by Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss and Gillian Welch 11. In the Highways by Sarah, Hannah, and Leah Peasall 12. I am Weary (Let Me Rest) by The Cox Family 13. I am a Man of Constant Sorrow by John Hartford 14. O Death by Ralph Stanley 15. In the Jailhouse Now by The Soggy Bottom Boys 16. I am a Man of Constant Sorrow by The Soggy Bottom Boys 17. Indian... Read review

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