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The Handsome Family - Honey Moon (2009)
mp3 VBR~189kpbs | 57MB | 44:52 min. | Release Date: April 14, 2009
Alternative Country, Neo-Traditional Folk, Indie Rock, Alternative Country-Rock
| Quote: | Husband-and-wife duo the Handsome Family has been labeled both alt-country and traditionalist, but truthfully their often-dark music lies in a unique space somewhere in between, blending the sounds of traditional country and bluegrass (and, especially, murder ballads) into a more modern scenery. <AMG>
2009 release, their eighth studio album overall. Honey Moon takes place under bowed branches and deep within winding corn mazes. The release celebrates the duo's 20th year of marriage with a series of love songs that sharply contrast the dark themes of their previous seven albums. Full of an awed sense of emotion in the face of nature's mysteries, Brett Sparks (music) and Rennie Sparks (lyrics) branch from their usual canon of the dark and mysterious on Honey Moon, to establish a theme rooted in the tradition of 19th century romanticism. For the first time there is no body count. It is an album of transcendence, of touching the divine, if only for a moment, through our love of someone else, even if he is a katydid. <Amazon>
On their eighth album, spouses Brett and Rennie Sparks continue to put a brilliantly surreal twist on everyday subjects, using nature imagery to evoke the weird intensity of all-consuming passions. <Spin>
Though answers don't come easily, the process of getting to know them is fascinating nonetheless. <Billboard> |
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Vanessa Williams - The Real Thing (2009)
Release Date: June 2, 2009 | mp3 V2 VBR Joint-Stereo | 63,8 MB | 48:23 min.
Jazz, R&B, Pop, Soul, Adult contemporary
| Quote: | While it has been a minute since Actress-model-Vocalist Vanessa Williams stepped into the recording studio to radiate for us once again, its apparent she chooses a particular fragment of music to lean on. That fragmentation leans on the ever clear spirit of jazz music. As I listened to "The Real Thing", I was challenged to review this CD, my friends, from different angles. One from a Rhythm & Blues side, the other from a jazz vocalist side. Although I believe Vanessa could handle any platform of music if ever given to her, sometimes we want to hear some from our favorite aspects of her career - Rhythm & Blues.
Since Vanessa broke out with "The Right Stuff" in the 80's, her stance on the music industry became well apparent. The album spawned numerous charting singles & elevated her position on the planet as being a singer & songwriter. A gifted talent alongside her acting career. Many other albums came through down the years & of those, Vanessa touched on various genres - such as jazz, pop, hip-hop, & latin music. She even Christmas caroled with a couple of seasonal projects & remained consistent over the years with releasing quality material.
In "The Real Thing", Vanessa continues the tradition. This chance, from Concord Records, comes a little more solid on the jazz standards side than the R&B angle I was just talking about. Although many of the songs were done before, many others were new compositions brought to us from Big producer Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds, well known jazz producer Rex Rideout & many others.
In "Breathless", I'm reminded of a sultry, romantic escapade ready to break the tender luscious harmonies Vanessa is well known to touch & sparkle.; "Hello Like Before" & "Loving You" clips the shoulder pad of the jazz standard format, while "The Real Thing" explores the very area of spicy latin jazz vocals. "Lazy Afternoon" is covered once again, while "Close To You" regains the tranquil environment the CD opened up to - A much mellow, watered down R&B production line with a jazzy approach & latin music appreciation.
Many of Vanessa's listeners may get a little disappointed about "The Real Thing". Where many of them hoped to catch a mouth watery taste of her much brighter & successful, "The Right Stuff" recipe, others will possibly accept the transition to much rather mature format of the jazz vocals platform. I would rather slip this new chance, "The Real Thing", into my player because of the quality of the music, the quality of the production & the quality of Vanessa's precious voice. Sometimes its not so much the format or genre a singer chooses to partake in that matters, it's how the message of their music is crossed, conveyed & received. I heard a great deep texture in her voice & she delivered a considerable specialty.
Again, "The Real Thing" is not so much for the younger group, but much more on the older, jazz vocal loving' crowd. On that mark, I grade this hallmark card a 4- out of 5. As much as I have admired the presence of Vanessa's beauty on stage, in film & on wax, this is one of her finest materials. It could have been much more better if there was a little bit more of an edge to R&B rather than jazz, but I'm sure it was Ms. Williams decision to put these tracks together & publish them.
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01. Breathless 04:51
02. Hello Like Before 04:28
03. Loving You 03:33
04. Just Friends 04:17
05. The Real Thing 05:13
06. Lazy Afternoon 04:57
07. Close To You 04:37
08. I Fell In 04:48
09. October Sky (Feat. Javier Colon) 04:29
10. Come On Strong 02:40
11. If There Were No Song 04:30
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Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger (2007)
mp3 192kpbs | 55MB | 42:33 min.
| Quote: | Ryan Adams (born November 5, 1974) is an American alt-country/rock singer-songwriter from Jacksonville, North Carolina. Raised by his mother after his father abandoned the family, Adams dropped out of school at age 16 and performed with several local bands before moving to Raleigh and forming the band Whiskeytown. Three albums and five years later, Adams went solo, releasing Heartbreaker in 2000. A longtime resident of New York City, Adams is probably best known for his song "New York, New York", which appeared on his 2001 release Gold. He has since released five more solo albums and three albums with his band, The Cardinals.
Easy Tiger is Ryan Adams' ninth studio album, released on June 26, 2007. Although attributed solely to Adams, the album features The Cardinals as his backing band. In an interview, Adams states that the album contains "very, very simple, very easy songs that, in my opinion, were written on the periphery of some more complex work.
The album debuted at #7 on the Billboard 200 with Adams highest first-week sales (61,000) and has sold 217,000 copies in the U.S. as of September 2008 and 450,000 worldwide. Furthermore, the album debuted in Canada, Estonia and Switzerland where Ryan Adams has never had an album chart before. "Halloweenhead" was #45 in Rolling Stone's list of the 100 Best Songs of 2007. <Wikipedia> |
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Otis Taylor - Blue-Eyed Monster (1996)
mp3 VBR~184kpbs | 61MB | 47:19 min.
Contemporary Blues, Electric Country Blues, Modern Acoustic Blues
| Quote: | Otis Taylor (born July 30, 1948, Chicago, Illinois) is an African American blues musician. He is a multi-instrumentalist whose talents include the guitar, banjo, mandolin, harmonica, and vocals. In 2001, he was awarded a fellowship to the Sundance Film Composers Laboratory.
By his mid-twenties he had been a member of several blues rock groups, including T&O Shortline (with the legendary Tommy Bolin of Deep Purple) and his own Otis Taylor Blues Band, and played throughout America and Europe.
When a number of projected recordings contracts fell through in the mid-70s, Taylor opted to start a career in antiques. The success of his new line of work meant Taylor was unable to dedicate any time to music, and effectively retired from the entertainment business for nearly 20 years. He was persuaded to begin performing again by musical associate Kenny Passarelli, and in 1995 played his first gig since the mid-70s. His debut recording, Blue-Eyed Monster, was released in 1996. The album's stark lyrical themes and fascination with African-American history and mythology marked Taylor out as a challenging new voice on the northern blues scene. His interpretation of electric country blues grew even darker on subsequent releases When Negroes Walked The Earth (1997) and White African (2001), the latter the first of his albums to gain national distribution and the catalyst for his being named Best New Artist at the W.C. Handy Blues Awards. |
1. Black Betty 0:38
2. Harry, Turn The Music Up 3:18
3. Hungry For Love 6:56
4. Nobody Knows My Name 3:44
5. Sito's Banjo Rag 0:33
6. Odie's Train Time 4:51
7. Coffee Woman 4:17
8. Sito's Banjo Rag 0:33
9. Ham Bones 1:38
10. Hey Joe 7:17
11. Sleepwalking Monster 4:56
12. Crawlin' King Snake 6:18
13. Laughing At The Moonlight 2:14
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Jason Isbell - Sirens Of The Ditch (2007)
| Quote: | | Although Jason Isbell's rather sudden split from the Drive-By Truckers, after six years of guitar/songwriting employment, was unexpected by most, his debut solo disc had already been four years in the making. Perhaps that explains the appearance of three members of his old band (bassist Shonna Tucker, drummer Brad Morgan, and DBT founder/frontman Patterson Hood, who also co-produced this disc), who assist on nearly every track. Musically Isbell finds a more soulful, generally less guitar-centric groove in this Southern singer/songwriter rock. Even though it was pieced together from different sessions, this is a remarkably coherent effort. Songs such as the melancholy "Dress Blues" and the harder-rocking "Shotgun Wedding" dissect the lives of working folks from small towns that Isbell likely knows well, and his lyrics sympathetically examine the limited futures of many of the protagonists. He delivers these stories with honest, unpretentious, and dusky vocals that, with a modified Don Henley rasp, subtly frame his skillfully constructed words. Even with the substantial input from the various Truckers, few of that band's fans would expect to find the upbeat, near-folk pop with banjo accompaniment of "The Magician," a tune that uses the titular character as a metaphor for the life of a touring musician, on a DBT disc. Nor would the understated blues of "Hurricanes and Hand Grenades" or the lovely acoustic ruminations of "In a Razor Town," a song that wouldn't be out of place on an old Jackson Browne album, logically slot into the Truckers' catalog. Every track is beautifully constructed, but none are fussy or overthought out, something not to be taken for granted concerning songs that took four years to finally appear. At times the effect seems almost too clean, as if Isbell is trying to distance himself from the grungier Truckers style. But this is a remarkably mature and impressive debut from an artist who seems like he's just getting started and his best stuff lies ahead of him. <AMG> |
1. "Brand New Kind of Actress" – 5:35
2. "Down in A Hole" – 4:22
3. "Try" – 4:52
4. "Chicago Promenade" – 3:23
5. "Good News" – 3:13
6. "Dress Blues" – 4:11
7. "Grown" – 3:46
8. "Hurricanes and Hand Grenades" – 5:11
9. "In A Razor Town" – 3:19
10. "Shotgun Wedding" – 3:49
11. "The Magician" – 4:20
12. "The Devil is My Running Mate" – 3:45
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Alejandro Escovedo String Quintet - Room Of Song (2005)
mp3 320kpbs | 95MB + 84MB | 77:47 min.
Limited edition 2-disc set recorded live at the Cactus Cafe in Austin, TX 2/28 & 3/1, 2005
| Quote: | | This Room of Songs, Austin's Cactus Cafe, is one of the birthplaces of Alejandro Escovedo, songwriter. He left plenty of shotgun casings on the floor of the True Believers, but in their aftermath, Escovedo emerged a songwriter with Gravity. Solo, with strings, and later an entire orchestra, he worked up the foundations of his entire repertoire at UT's velvet listening room, this past spring a chance to further hone after a lengthy lay-off. Though its 78 minutes fit on a single disc, the 2-CD digi-packed ROS plays like 15 years of polish, a subtle face-lift of Escovedo favorites strung by two guitars, two cellos, and Susan Voelz's impassioned violin. All that nylon accentuates the tension in Escovedo's songs, the density lending "Everybody Loves Me" John Cale's viola burn and thus the pedigree to dwell in its true resting place: one of the Stooges first two LPs. The extension and ad-libs in both "Sex Beat" and "Bury Me" make them powerful additions to the cannon. Disc two feels more suite-like, opening with the heart of By the Hand of the Father, "Wave" into "Rosalie," the latter's strings gliding over David Pulkingham's piquant, Latin-flavored guitar serenade. "Velvet Guitar" has a newfound clarity once the rock is stripped away, though the strings don't strip the song of its weight. "Put You Down," which follows doesn't quite reach the same height, but 10-minute closer "Gravity/Falling Down" does, pushing and pulling, lively with countermelodies and lockstep cellos. Only Al rocks with strings. |
Alejandro Escovedo - vocals & guitars
Susan Voelz - violin & background vocals
Brian Standefer - cello
Matt Fish - cello
David Pulkingham - guitars & background vocals
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-Disc One:
Baby's Got New Plans
Way It Goes
By Eleven
Everybody Loves Me
Sex Beat
Bury Me
Thirteen Years Theme
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Wave
Juarez
Rosalie
I Was Drunk
Velvet Guitar
Put You Down
Gravity/Falling Down
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The Watson Twins - Fire Songs (2008)
mp3 VBR~192kpbs | 61MB | 44:00 min.
Americana, Alternative Country, Folk, Alternative Singer/ Songwriter, Indie Rock
| Quote: | Identical twins Chandra and Leigh Watson, veterans of the contemporary folk rock scene in Los Angeles will release "Fire Songs", their label debut full length. The twins are akin to various scenes such as indie rock, new folk, alt-country/Americana and cannot be neatly categorized into one. The Kentucky-born duo count folk, gospel, blues and country as early influences. <Amazon>
Twin sisters Chandra Watson and Leigh Watson are daughters of the Deep South whose music crosses the divide between folk and country traditions and contemporary roots music.
The Watson Twins established their name and got a significant career boost when Rilo Kiley singer Jenny Lewis invited Chandra and Leigh to collaborate with her on an album; the result, 2006's Rabbit Fur Coat, was a major indie success and drew nearly as much attention to the Watson Twins as it did to Lewis.
On their first full-length album, the Watson Twins sound as if they're stepping back a bit from the folky Appalachian tone of their earlier work into an alternate reality where Natalie Merchant has taken over as lead singer of Mazzy Star. <AMG> |
01. How Am I To Be
02. Lady Love Me
03. Fall
04. Just Like Heaven
05. Map To Where You Are
06. Dig a Little Deeper
07. Sky Open Up
08. Bar Woman Blues
09. Only You
10. Old Ways
11. Waves
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Jenny LEWIS & The WATSON TWINS - Rabbit Fur Coat (2006)
mp3 VBR~190 Kbps | 49MB | 38:09 min.
Indie Rock, Americana, Indie Pop, Alternative Country-Rock
| Quote: | Rabbit Fur Coat is an album by Jenny Lewis of Rilo Kiley, featuring The Watson Twins. It was released in the United States on January 24, 2006 by Team Love. Lewis has described the album as a "sort of soul record". The album contains a cover of the Traveling Wilburys song "Handle With Care", featuring Ben Gibbard (of Death Cab for Cutie), Conor Oberst (of Bright Eyes) and M. Ward.
Listeners of All Songs Considered, NPR's online music show, voted the album the eighth best of 2006. <Wikipedia> |
1. "Run Devil Run" – 1:06
2. "The Big Guns" – 2:32
3. "Rise Up with Fists!!" – 3:36
4. "Happy" – 4:14
5. "The Charging Sky" – 2:56
6. "Melt Your Heart" – 2:50
7. "You Are What You Love" – 2:51
8. "Rabbit Fur Coat" – 4:32
9. "Handle with Care" (Bob Dylan/George Harrison/Jeff Lynne/Roy Orbison/Tom Petty) – 2:56
10. "Born Secular" – 5:07
11. "It Wasn't Me" – 4:10
12. "Happy (Reprise)" – 0:48
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Priscilla Ahn - A Good Day (2008)
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| Quote: | A Good Day is the major label debut album by American singer/songwriter Priscilla Ahn. The album was released June 10, 2008 on Blue Note Records. Two of her songs were also featured on two episodes of Grey's Anatomy. "Dream" was also featured on the soundtrack to the movie Disturbia, and more recently on an episode from Ghost Whisperer. In June 2008, she was the Artist of the Week for Paste magazine. Her song "I Don't Think So" was featured at the end of NBC's Knight Rider premiere episode. In 2009, her single "Dream" was featured in the film Bride Wars and a brief clip of "Morning Song" can be heard at the end of the Psych episode, "Tuesday the Seventeenth." <Wikipedia>
A charming singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist (playing the guitar, bass, harmonica, ukelele, and even kazoo from time to time), Priscilla Ahn comes from the same singer/songwriter circle that spun off Sara Bareilles and Cary Brothers, having cut her teeth in a dizzying array of L.A. venues before wooing Blue Note Records with her gently confident vocals and fretwork.
Given its range and self-assured delivery, A Good Day doesn't quite sound like a debut effort -- a telltale sign that Priscilla Ahn (only 24 years old at the time of its release) is on her way to bigger and better things. <AMG> |
01. Dream
02. Wallflower
03. I Don’t Think So
04. Masters In China
05. Leave the Light On
06. Red Cape
07. Astronaut
08. Lullaby
09. Find My Way Back Home
10. Opportunity To Cry
11. A Good Day (Morning Song)
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Sarah Borges & The Broken Singles - The Stars Are Out (2009)
mp3 192 kpbs | 48MB | 34:50 min.
Alternative Country, Alternative Singer/ Songwriter
| Quote: | Sarah Borges is an rock and roll singer, songwriter and musician from Taunton, Massachusetts, signed to Sugar Hill Records. Her music is described as "walking that fine line between punk and country". Allmusic compared Borges to Maria McKee of Lone Justice, and admired how her songs "balance some fierce guitar licks with heartfelt twang".
A third album, The Stars Are Out was released in March 2009. Borges commented that the album features more of a straightforward rock n roll sound than her earlier work. The album features five covers of artists ranging from Smokey Robinson to The Lemonheads. Allmusic describes the album as "material grounded in Americana even as it morphs from folk to rock and even soul" and calls it a "short but sweet collection". <Wikipedia> |
1. Do It For Free (2:40)
2. Yesterday's Love (2:56)
3. Me And Your Ghost (3:29)
4. Being With You (3:07)
5. No One Will Ever Love You (3:58)
6. I'll Show You How (3:15)
7. Ride With Me (4:04)
8. It Comes To Me Naturally (2:41)
9. Better At The End Of The Day (3:56)
10. Symphony (4:43)
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Alejandro Escovedo - With These Hands (1996)
mp3 VBR~198kpbs | 76MB | 52:15 min. | Americana, Roots Rock
| Quote: | Since he went solo back in the early '90s, ex-True Believer and Rank & File, Alejandro Escovedo has blended the lyricism of Bruce Springsteen and Jackson Browne with the raw power of the Stooges and the Velvet Underground, often adding traditional elements like Latin rhythms and even chamber music. The result is music with heart, brains and a burning sense of adventure. The downside is that Escovedo's broad musical palette sometimes plays tug of war with the deeply spiritual and emotional resonance of his words.
In 1996, Alejandro Escovedo continued the artistic expansion he'd started in earnest a few years earlier with his post-Rank N File solo albums, writing songs of heartbreak exasperation via crunching, low-slung rockers and rootsy folk ballads. |
| Quote: | | After recording two superb albums for the tiny independent label Watermelon Records, Alejandro Escovedo moved up, if not to the big leagues, then at least to AAA ball, when he signed with Rykodisc for his third solo set, With These Hands. While Escovedo's arrangements (he calls his band an orchestra without exaggeration) and Turner Stephen Bruton's production on Gravity and Thirteen Years were strikingly ambitious given their tiny budgets, With These Hands found them with a bit more money at their disposal, and if their approach wasn't remarkably different, the results display more polish and audibly greater depth than before, and Escovedo was able to bring along a few celebrity guests -- among them Willie Nelson, Jennifer Warnes, and his cousin Sheila Escovedo (aka Sheila E) -- who add to the music without calling undue attention to themselves. Lyrically, after the deeply (and sometimes painfully) personal material of Gravity and Thirteen Years, With These Hands found Escovedo stepping a bit outside himself to tell stories less obviously based on his own life, though the results are as compelling (and ring as true) as his more autobiographical material, especially the failed rock star's lament of "Pissed Off 2 A.M.," the dead of night heartache of "Sometimes," and "Nickel and a Spoon"'s story of a devastated family. If With These Hands seems less immediately striking than the two albums that preceded it, that's only because it's less SPAMising -- with his first two solo albums, Alejandro Escovedo announced himself as a world class talent with a singular style, and if With These Hands doesn't break much new ground for him, it shows he's still in full command of his considerable gifts as a musician, and it's an impressive achievement. <AMG> |
1. Put You Down
2. Slip
3. Crooked Frame
4. Pissed Off 2am
5. Nickie and a Spoon
6. Little Bottles
7. Sometimes
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Ryan Adams - Extra Cheese (2009)
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Alternative Country, Alternative Singer/ Songwriter, Alternative Country-Rock, Americana
| Quote: | Mixing the heartfelt angst of a singer/songwriter with the cocky brashness of a garage rocker, Ryan Adams is at once one of the few artists to emerge from the alt-country scene to achieve mainstream commercial success and the one who most strongly refused to be defined by the genre, leaping from one spot to another stylistically as he follows his increasingly prolific muse. <AMG>
Four-time Grammy Award nominee Ryan Adams will release the digital-only EP Extra Cheese (Lost Highway/UMe), exclusively via iTunes on February 10, 2009. Extra Cheese features six previously issued tracks plus the previously unreleased “Hey There, Mrs. Lovely". Adams has been performing “Hey There, Mrs. Lovely” live since 1999 but has never song committed the fan favorite to a studio record until now. The other six tracks on the EP are a sampling of love songs culled from Adams’ impressive oeuvre: “Answering Bell” from 2001’s Gold, “Desire” from 2002’s Demolition, “Blossom” from 2005’s Cold Roses, “Two” from 2007’s Easy Tiger, “My Love For You Is Real” from the same year’s Follow The Lights EP, and “Evergreen” from Ryan & the Cardinals’ most recent album, Cardinology, released last fall. |
1. "Two" from 2007's Easy Tiger
2. "Blossom" from 2005's Cold Roses
3. "Answering Bell" from 2001's Gold
4. "Evergreen" from 2008's Cardinology
5. "My Love For You Is Real" from 2007's Follow The Lights EP
6. "Desire" from 2002's Demolition
7. "Hey There Mrs. Lovely," previously unreleased.
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William Elliott Whitmore - Animals In The Dark (2009)
mp3 192 kpbs | 52MB | 37:11 min.
Americana, Neo-Traditional Folk, Alternative Singer/ Songwriter, Folk-Blues, Blues Gospel
| Quote: | | With a voice that sounds like the reincarnation of an old gospel preacher from the 1920s and a fascination with sin, death, and redemption to match, William Elliott Whitmore is one of the most unique artists to emerge on the Americana scene in years. The son of a farmer and raised on a horse farm on the banks of the Mississippi River outside of Keokuk, IA, Whitmore's songs have a stark universality that is sketched out with minimal instrumentation, usually just a banjo or guitar and a smattering of percussion. His voice is the one Tom Waits has been after for years (imagine a cross between Captain Beefheart and Dock Boggs), and his folk- and blues-inflected songs feel like they've been left out in the rain for months, weathered and tightened to the snapping point. <AMG> |
01. Mutiny
02. Who stole the soul
03. Johnny law
04. Old devils
05. Hell or high water
06. There's hope for you
07. Hard times
08. Lifetime underground
09. Let the rain come in
10. A good day to die
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William Elliott Whitmore - Song of the Blackbird (2006)
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Americana, Neo-Traditional Folk, Alternative Singer/ Songwriter, Folk-Blues, Blues Gospel
| Quote: | William Elliott Whitmore hasn't changed one iota for Song of the Blackbird, the third in a stylistic trilogy that began with 2003's Hymns for the Hopeless and continued in 2005 with Ashes to Dust. He's still fascinated by death and the re-examination of a life lived that death forces into play, and he still approaches his songs on a sparse, rustic level, sounding very much like an old Appalachian banjo player who's been reading Nietzsche while throwing down shots of bootleg moonshine. Whitmore's remarkable croak of a voice makes all of this work, and if that voice and the general dour, slow-paced feel of his songs makes him seem like a one-trick pony, well, that pony knows one hell of a trick. Song of the Blackbird doesn't set any new dishes out on the table, consisting of Whitmore singing over his own banjo or acoustic guitar accompaniment, for the most part (some moody drums and organ creep into a couple of the songs), and life doesn't seem to have been any easier on this latest bunch of Whitmore's hardscrabble characters, but while it's easy to view him as a scribe of the dire and the dying, there's a stubborn kind of faith at the root of his songs, a sort of unsaid hope in redemption and renewal that puts tremendous faith in the rhythm of the soil. Things are born, they live, they die, and the whole cycle renews. In the final song here, "Everyday," the sun comes up over the field to the east and then a verse or two later it sets over the field to the west. That's something, Whitmore is saying, that you can count on everyday. For all of their dark and desperate fears, the characters in these songs all cling to that notion of renewal, and Song of the Blackbird, although it moves track to track like a dirge stuck in a single key, is full of the hope for redemption, and there is a fervent and stubborn joy here, buried in the darkness. ---
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# 1. Dry
# 2. The Chariot
# 3. One Man's Shame
# 4. Rest His Soul
# 5. And Then the Rains Came
# 6. Lee County Flood
# 7. Take it on the Chin
# 8. Red Buds
# 9. Everyday
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