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| | Time (The Revelator) | | | Music Artist : | | Gillian Welch | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Warner Bros UK | | Release Date : | | 2008-01-13 | | Store Price : | | $14.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $14.98 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Revelator
2. My First Lover
3. Dear Someone
4. Red Clay Halo
5. April the 14th, Pt. 1
6. I Want to Sing That Rock and Roll
7. Elvis Presley Blues
8. Ruination Day, Pt. 2
9. Everything Is Free
10. I Dream a Highway
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Possibly perfect.
Submitted on: 2009-11-17 |
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What you have here is Gillian Welch and David Rawlings writing and performing their compositions. So yes, basically it's Gillian's voice and guitar backed by David's voice and guitar... and the result is perfect. The combination of Gillian's clear American bluegrass/folk voice underpinned by David's exquisitely judged harmonies makes for blissful listening. But it's not just the performances, the songs are beautiful, and some, like Dear Someone and Elvis Presley Blues are latecoming folk/blues classics.
Recommended without reservation.
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Listening album
Submitted on: 2009-05-11 |
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Yeah, Gillian Welch is a pop-folk-revivalist. Get over it.
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." |
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A Classic Americana Album
Submitted on: 2009-02-17 |
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| 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. "Time" is a beautiful, poetic, and soothing album. "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. |
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Dangerously wonderful-
Submitted on: 2008-04-12 |
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| 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. |
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oh my yes I remember....
Submitted on: 2008-04-11 |
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| 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. I was curled up in a hard wooden chair, and very hung over from a night of drinking in my old haunts. Most of which I couldn't find after being away 20 years, but... Gillian & David brought me home... Ted The Fiddler |
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