... 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 ... Read review
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SOUL JOURNEY
Personnel: Gillian Welch (vocals, guitar); David Rawlings (various instruments, background
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vocals); Mark Ambrose (acoustic guitar); Greg Leisz (dobro); Ketcham Secor (fiddle); Matt Andrews, Jim Boquist (bass).SOUL JOURNEY, the follow-up to the critical...
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 ... ...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, and now settled in Nashville with long-time partner and musical collaborator David Rawlings, Welch has been a multiple Grammy ...
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Album Notes: Personnel: Gillian Welch (vocals, guitar); David Rawlings (various instruments, background vocals); Mark Ambrose (acoustic guitar); Greg Leisz (dobro); Ketcham Secor (fiddle); Matt Andrews, Jim Boquist (bass).
Titles on disc 1
1.: Look At Miss Ohio
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Album Reviews: Entertainment Weekly (6/6/03, p.79) - \"...Aching songs about restless daughters that reference classic soul and pastoral psychedelia...\"
Titles on disc 1
2.: Make Me A Pallet On Your Floor
3.: Wayside/Back In Time
4.: I Had A Real Good Mother And Father
5.: One Monkey
6.: No One Knows My Name
7.: Lowlands
8.: One Little Song
9.: I Made A Lovers Prayer
10.: Wrecking Ball
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