Music CD - Gillian Welch: Time (The Revelator)

	Music CD: Time (The Revelator) Artist: Gillian Welch List Price: $16.98 Our Price: $9.79 Your Save: $ 7.19 ( 42% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Acony Records
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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
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0805147010321 Label: Acony Records Manufacturer: Acony Records Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Acony Records Release Date: 2001-07-31 Studio: Acony Records
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Dangerously wonderful- Comment: This album is just...transcendent. I am still profoundly affected by it after nearly five years' owning the disc. True 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, dearly, precisely because of its unique, hypnotic tone and pacing. Altcountry it isn't; Welch and Rawlings succeed in the creation of an economical yet expansive acoustic sound-world, at once spare and sophisticated, and very beautiful. It's a new kind of music. Let it happen to you. Customer Rating: Summary: oh my yes I remember.... Comment: 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 Customer Rating: Summary: another great Gillian Welch album to add to your collection Comment: This album is pretty good in relation to the other two Gillian Welch albums I've heard: Soul Journey and Revival. I'm not in love with it, although "I Want to Sing That Rock and Roll" and "Elvis Presley Blues" considerably increase its overall appeal. This is a noteworthy album, don't get me wrong--but the majority of the tracks are boring relative to her other amazing work. Customer Rating: Summary: One of the greatest recordings I have ever heard. Comment: 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... Customer Rating: Summary: I want her to sing more of that rock'n'roll! Comment: Wow--that track "I want to sing that Rock'n'Roll" just blows me away every time I hear it. I learned about Gillian Welch the way I do about many of the singer-songwriters, by hearing her work covered by someone else. I first heard "Caleb Meyer" and "Elvis Presley Blues" on Joan Baez' "Dark Chords on a Big Guitar". They were beautiful and I went to seek Welch herself out. No big surprise, her work is wonderful. Her spare style on this CD lends to an intimacy that nothing else will achieve. For the most part, it's just Gillian singing, playing pretty simply on an acoustic guitar. Sit quietly and she comes into the room with you, haunting with her words. "Red Dirt Halo" is something I can definitely identify with growing up in Oklahoma. 'Port Silt Loam' is the name of the copper intense red clay of the area and the rusty stain is more pernicious than grass. There's actually a company in Oklahoma that uses the red clay to tie dye t-shirts, it works so well. Only one gig: "April 14 (Part 1)-Ruination Day (Part 2)" is a two parter that I wish was put side by side on the CD. I love the song, but I doubt I'll listen very often, because it brings tears to my eyes. It'd be a lot easier to just skip both of them at once. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: The considerable promise carried forth on Gillian Welch's first two albums is thoroughly fulfilled on Time (The Revelator). Welch has traded the guidance of her previous producer, T Bone Burnett, for the sympathetic studio skills of her longtime guitarist-harmony singer David Rawlings, who loosens the reins just enough to allow moments of spontaneity to sparkle within the duo's spare, eloquent playing. "Revelator" is an instant classic, perhaps the first great folk song of the 21st century. "I Want to Sing That Rock and Roll" is three minutes of Louvins/Everlys-style bliss. "April the 14th, Part 1" haunts its historical context with an achingly melancholy melody. It all leads up to the epic 14-minute "I Dream a Highway," one of the finest closing tracks ever put on record. --Peter Blackstock