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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 |
Editorial Reviews
Grammy-nominated artist Gillian Wlch has 3 created some of her most passionate works on her 3rd album Tim (The Revelator). The tne song CD produced by songwriting partner David Rawlings. "Gillian combines echoes of bluegrass musical purity with lyrics about trouble lives that carry the grainy authenticity of old B&W photos..-LA Times"
Product details
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Language : English
- Product Dimensions : 5.63 x 5.12 x 0.39 inches; 3.17 ounces
- Manufacturer : Acony Records
- Original Release Date : 2001
- Date First Available : December 7, 2006
- Label : Acony Records
- ASIN : B00005N8CQ
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #27,066 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #173 in Alt-Country & Americana (CDs & Vinyl)
- #264 in Traditional Folk (CDs & Vinyl)
- #317 in Contemporary Folk (CDs & Vinyl)
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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:
The sweetly seductive "Elvis Presley Blues" will get to you even if you've never cared for Elvis. It seems like pure heartland at first, but has a touch of Lou Reed-like suggestiveness.
"I Want to Sing That Rock And Roll" was the first Welch/Rawlings tune I ever loved, and it's still a good one. Like other reviewers, I wish they had re-recorded the track for this album; the ovation at the end is a little disconcerting.
"My First Lover" is the album's most leisurely and enjoyable song; thudding power chords recall a lazy, stupefying roll in the hay.
"I Dream a Highway" is the album's other masterpiece, a 14 minute ballad with a narcotic, haunting intensity. Despite its length and repetitive melody, it never gets boring; instead, it invokes an eternal road trip through loneliness and revelation. It's a great song -- the thrillingly slow finish to a marvelous album.
There is an immediacy to the songs on this album that is quite startling. When I listen to the distinctive vocals and the superb guitar/banjo strumming, I feel like I am sitting with Welch and Rawlings on a large porch in the middle of the summer and they are singing and picking right in front of me as I sip my iced tea and brush away the insects. This collection feels so intimate, as if every track has been sung and loved for years. Gillian Welch proves here that less is, indeed, more. There are few artists who could do more with a guitar, a banjo and two voices than Gillian Welch and David Rawlings.
Although nothing can quite come close to the emotional whallop that "Hell Among the Yearlings" packed, "Time" feels more positive as if Welch finally feels empowered instead of defeated by "Time". With positive statements like "I want to electrify my soul," we finally feel that Welch believes she can finally make a difference in her life. It's this belief in change that is the key, whether or not change comes. "We're gonna do it anyway, even if it doesn't pay," Welch sings in "Eveything is Free". Although the harshness of life is still the undercurrent and mover of her songs, Welch makes a bold step forward in dealing with "Time".
The album closes with the epic (in length and thematic scope)"I Dream A Highway". A sort of opposite of Dylan's "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" or "Desolation Row" in that it's more hopeful and the narrator of this song is more confident than Dylan's dazed and confused suitor though there are subtle similarities in both songs. "I Dream A Highway" is the perfect final track, leading you gently out of Gillian and David's world. For now. I consider this album and "Hell Among The Yearlings" to be their masterpieces.