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| 1. Caleb Meyer |
| 2. Good Til Now |
| 3. The Devil Had a Hold of Me |
| 4. My Morphine |
| 5. One Morning |
| 6. Miner's Refrain |
| 7. Honey Now |
| 8. I'm Not Afraid to Die |
| 9. Rock of Ages |
| 10. Whiskey Girl |
| 11. Winter's Come and Gone |
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On her remarkable debut, Revival, Gillian Welch sang of men and women who were intimately tied to others, even as they mourned dead children or lost homes. Hell Among the Yearlings finds Welch in even darker territory. In this world, loss can't be assuaged by human connection because there is none: morphine junkies, dying hobos, and alienated workers stand utterly alone in a sparse landscape where hope comes, if at all, in merely surviving. For example, the woman who kills her rapist or the singer who unconvincingly declares her troubles have flown because "Winter's Come and Gone." Appropriately, Welch's stunning voice goes it alone, surrounded by little more than her own banjo and the spare old- time and country-blues guitar of partner David Rawlings. --David Cantwell
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A much more quietly celebrated CD than her debut, Gillian Welch's sophomore effort assured fans of old-timey country folk that she was salt of the earth. Her songs speak with both plaintive yearning and a seasoned storyteller's moxie, urged on by her and David Rawlings's economical guitar picking and strumming. Welch's vocal timbre bears ideally twangy power, giving her a constantly strong vault into her similarly creative tales, which help place this CD clearly in the realm of the exceptional. -- Andrew Bartlett
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5.0 out of 5 stars
instant melancholia / addictive, haunting poetry and music,
By Pieter de Rooij (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) - See all my reviews
Ce commentaire est de: Hell Among the Yearlings (Audio CD)
Welch's voice and Rawlings' guitar sound as intense, beneficent and honest as music can get. I enjoy an extremely addictive mixture here of haunting poetry and music that comes straight from the heart, in an American country/folklike-style that reverberates and finds refuge in my soul immediately. A music of 'instant melancholia', or, if I may borrow some of Welch's own beautiful lyrics here- a music that's like 'morphine' that 'will be the death of me'. Very impressive and highly recommended!
5.0 out of 5 stars
Simple, stark, and beautiful,
By inside the granfalloon (Coast (Pacific)) - See all my reviews
Ce commentaire est de: Hell Among The Yearlings (Audio CD)
This is my second favorite Gillian album, just behind "Time - The Revelator" and just ahead of "Soul Journey." I think in this album, more so than in "Revival," Gillian really shows her knack for writing songs that sound like you've been hearing them and singing them your whole life. I suppose tracks like "Miner's Refrain," "The Devil Had A Hold of Me," "One Morning," and "I'm not Afraid to Die" could be considered dark, but the stripped-down guitar and vocals are so beautiful and intimate, and the writing so plainspoken and direct, that I'm drawn into the songs without a second thought. To specifically praise a few songs, "Miner's Refrain" is tied with Johnny Cash's rendition of "Dark as a Dungeon" as my all-time favorite coal mining song (not that there's much competition, but still ...); "I'm Not Afraid to Die" is, to me, as soothing and spiritual a song as this athiest will ever sing along to; and "Winter's Come and Gone" is such a joyous and uplifting celebration of the seasons that every spring I drive around town listening to it over and over with a big smile on my face.Gillain's songs remind me of Alice Munro's short stories -- deceptively simple and hauntingly beautiful, once you let them in they'll be with you forever.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Hauntingly Beautiful,
By Aaron D. Woolsey (United States) - See all my reviews
Ce commentaire est de: Hell Among The Yearlings (Audio CD)
One of the finest albums I've owned in a long time. The sheer, raw, haunting, ambiance of the recording sent chills down my spine from the first track. I first became interested in Gillian Welch's recordings after I practically wore out my CD of, "O Brother Where Art Thou?". From there, I was captivated by her and David Rawling's performance of "Katie Dear" from the Chieftains "Down the Old Plank Road". I received "Soul Journey" as a Christmas gift, and was impressed. This recording, however, is so beautiful in it's utter simplicity and desparation, that it is already in my top 20 album's I've EVER heard. Simply a masterpiece.
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