has anyone got the latest gillian welch album?

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cos i REALLY gotta know what its like, before i scratch my eyes out.

― di smith (lucylurex), Thursday, 5 June 2003 03:02 (twenty-two years ago)

My roommate bought it at 12:01 on Tuesday morning (Gillian and David signed it, too). I just listened to it tonight, and liked what I heard. But really, if you like any of the other three albums, this one doesn't make great strides at being different.

― Paul Cox (paul cox), Thursday, 5 June 2003 03:57 (twenty-two years ago)

David Rawlings is the most underrated sideman in the USA. I like Gillian -- even kinda love her -- but it's hard to imagine her without David. And no, haven't heard the new one. I expect I will. I never managed to get tired of the last one. (One of my friends spent a whole week listening obsessively to "I Dream a Highway." Another friend used the whole album as a soundtrack to an alarming mental breakdown. I don't know if she still listens to it...)

― JesseFox (JesseFox), Thursday, 5 June 2003 04:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes. To be reviewed on CoM next weekend.

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 5 June 2003 09:59 (twenty-two years ago)

four weeks pass...

Great album. Great review. Thanks Marcello.

― bert (bert), Thursday, 3 July 2003 18:26 (twenty-two years ago)

My review here if you scroll down the left-hand side (or search the archives).

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 3 July 2003 19:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I really like it. More instruments on it than on her earlier LPs, and there's less fancy guitar picking from David Rawlings, but the songs with more instruments (some drums, dobro, fiddle, electric guitar) that kinda thing) sound really good. Less bluegrassy, more sort of like the Band or Bob Dylan in the late 60s. Or some Neil Young. amplified folk rock. There are a couple of solo acoustic things on it, too, but the full band tunes are the ones I keep going back to at this point. Maybe just for the novelty of it.

― pauls00, Friday, 4 July 2003 14:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Weird, this just finished playing on my stereo; it's absolutely fabulous I think. I think I'm probably the only person on the earth that didn't think that Revelator was utter genius...still haven't warmed up to it properly, and I don't know why. Also, people kept telling me before the release of this one that it was supposedly very terrible. And it's not...it's now my favourite of her albums, easily.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Friday, 4 July 2003 14:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I like it best as well Sean. I don't think Revelator is as genius as some say, just very good.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Friday, 4 July 2003 14:19 (twenty-two years ago)

One other thing; Marcello mentions the other artwork in his review, but the photo of Rawlings inside made me do a double-take. Does it look to anyone else like the top of his head was chopped off and floating a couple of inches higher? (That bit from the painting in the background being the "top of his head".)

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Friday, 4 July 2003 14:24 (twenty-two years ago)

can someone link me to marcello's review? thankee.

― di smith (lucylurex), Saturday, 5 July 2003 00:37 (twenty-two years ago)

here it is, di smith.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Saturday, 5 July 2003 06:47 (twenty-two years ago)

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