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Track Listings
| 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 |
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Fittingly for an Appalachia-influenced folk singer born to parents who wrote for the Carol Burnett show, Gillian Welch watched her profile rise thanks to inclusion on the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack. This, her third album, rates between her strong first and insufferable second. Welch still has a knack for calling up personal stories from American mythos: The best track here, "My First Lover," boasts a narrator who recalls losing her virginity to "that old Steve Miller song, 'Quicksilver Girl.'" She's more holy, less earthbound, when leadenly intoning the "Elvis Presley Blues" or, in the 14-minute (!) "I Dream A Highway," proposing to a partner that "you be Emmylou and I'll be Gram." Unlike her putative role model, Welch could take all the adventure out of dying in a cheap motel room. --Rickey Wright
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Ses deux précédents albums résonnaient déjà de pureté éclatante. Celui-ci est un aboutissement pour cette chanteuse qui s'impose au sommet de la chanson folk-country, grâce à l'alchimie magique qu'elle réalise avec David Rawlings, son brillant guitariste de compagnon. C'est un disque fait par des gens ordinaires, qui capte comme jamais l'évidente nature des choses de la vie. Le folk, c'est les gens, est-il utile de le rappeler. Et sur la terre nord-américaine, il a capturé les sons du blue grass, du gospel, de la country ou du rock. Entre les mains de Gillian Welch (et de David Rawlings), ces chansons demeurent des pièces organiques qui respirent comme une matière vivante. Elles sourdent à l'intérieur jusqu'à ce final de près de 15 minutes intitulé "I Dream A Highway", en passant par des confidences, "My First Lover" ou "I Want To Sing That Rock And Roll" – qu'elle chantait déjà sur le live Down From The Mountain. Toujours soucieuse de revendiquer ses racines, mais sans ostentation, elle offre un clin d'œil (jusque dans le titre du CD) à la chanson de Blind Willie Johnson "John The Revelator". Comme pour affirmer combien le temps ne fait rien à l'affaire : cette musique est là pour longtemps. --José Ruiz
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Can you spell P-R-E-T-E-N-T-I-O-U-S boys and girls?,
By Pontificator "pontificator" (Gaithersburg, MD United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Time (The Revelator) (Audio CD)
Hey, after reading all the Ga-Ga reviews of this album, I realize I'm in a position akin to pointing out the emperor ain't wearing any clothes, but undaunted, I press on...I like most of Gillian's stuff -- honest! -- but that 14-minute final cut is a killer. Peter Blackstock, the Amazon reviewer, touted it as one of the finest closing cuts ever. Say WHUT? Boy are Peter and I coming at life from opposite ends of the spectrum. To me, "I Dream A Highway" is the musical equivalent of watching syrup drip. Virtually all of the customer reviews on this CD are rave as well, but perhaps it's telling that many of these same reviews are also pushing the 1000-word limit. Maybe the 14 minutes of repetitious, funereal monotone that distinguish "I Dream..." is compelling listening for these prolific wordsmiths, but man I was gassed by the end of this CD. I needed a couple of shots of Buddy Miller and Jerry Jeff Walker to clear my head after sitting through this interminable set. The rest of the cuts are approaching OK, but with the bar set so low by that final 14-minute dirge (which takes up most of the CD), this album is beyond salvation. Like I said, I really do enjoy Gillian, but she's all hung up in her knickers on this effort. I'll probably buy another of her CDs in the future, but not before listening to the whole thing first -- and definitely not based on the Amazon reviews! There are few musical events more disturbing (and annoying) than a cerebral folk singer who starts to take herself too seriously. Come back, Gillian, come back...
5.0 out of 5 stars
Hold your breath...,
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This review is from: Time (The Revelator) (Audio CD)
This is a gorgeous album. Like many people, I first learned about Welch & Rawlings through their work on "O Brother Where Art Thou" and "Down by the Mountain." Despite having little previous interest in bluegrass, I was instantly hooked. I finished collecting their albums this year, and was delighted to find out that "Time (The Revelator)" was the best of a very good body of work.I'm especially fond of the eerie title track, "Revelator," a contemplation of Welch's own success. The songwriter successfully walks a fine line between invective and self-pity, and her refrain -- "Time's the revelator" -- is at once fierce yet chilling. Rawlings's guitar accompaniment is equally fantastic; he's an astonishing musician. Together, they make the song into a small masterpiece. (Incidentally, I saw the two of them play this at a venue in Atlanta several months ago. When they got to a particular four-letter word towards the end of the song, the seemingly grave audience cheered with delight). Other highlights:
5.0 out of 5 stars
instant melancholia / addictive, haunting poetry and music,
By Pieter de Rooij (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Time (The Revelator) (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!
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