Chris Thile - How to Grow a Woman from the Ground
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Artist: Chris ThileEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-09-12
Music Label: Sugarhill
Soundtracks:
- Watch 'At Breakdown - Chris Thile, Thile, Chris
- Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground - Chris Thile, White, Jack
- Stay Away - Chris Thile, Thile, Chris
- O Santo de Polvora - Chris Thile, Millandorio
- Wayside (Back in Time) - Chris Thile, Rawlings, David
- You're an Angel and I'm Gonna Cry - Chris Thile, Thile, Chris
- How to Grow a Woman from the Ground - Chris Thile, Brosseau, Thomas An
- The Beekeeper - Chris Thile, Thile, Chris
- Brakeman's Blues - Chris Thile, Rodgers, Jimmie
- If the Sea Was Whiskey - Chris Thile, Public Domain
- Cazadero - Chris Thile, Shelasky, Paul
- Heart in a Cage - Chris Thile, Casablancas, Julian
- I'm Yours If You Want Me - Chris Thile, Thile, Chris
- The Eleventh Reel - Chris Thile, Thile, Chris
Music reviews of How to Grow a Woman from the Ground
Music Review: The gap needs to be bridged
Rating: 4 Stars
This album is another success from one of the world's greatest mandolin players. He has chosen an eclectic array of songs to create an album that hits at almost every emotion. The musicianship is inarguably topnotch, which only compliments the song writing and various covers.
As long as I have listened to Nickel Creek I have found only one constant in the musical stylings of Chris Thile... there is no constant. He has dipped into seemingly every genre of music. If it is unwavering clean traditional bluegrass you are looking for, you will likely need to start looking other places than Chris Thile.
To be honest what is most concerning to me is how much controversy one swear word brought to the album. Many who would have given the album 4 or even 5 stars ended up giving it 1 or 2. Somehow it brought up the question of the tightrope musicians are forced to walk between pleasing fans and doing what they wish to do. Musicians know, better than anyone, that they will never please everyone. That aside, I am simply dumbfounded that it caused such an issue. There are 13 other tracks without a swear word, even logistically it is absurd. He wasn't promoting a religious or political ideal. He wasn't spewing hate or anger. He simply covered a Strokes song that says `f***ing'.
If it really is that big of an issue, you must be locked in a cabin, because this country has drastically bigger issues. Focus on what the music does for you. Let it be an escape from the routine and try to be more accepting. There are amazing songs written in almost every style of music, Thile understands this. I think he also understands that swear words are not necessarily malicious. Thile has the ability to bridge the gap between those who love traditional bluegrass, and those who seek more.
One review said "I'll probably never buy another Thile or Nickel Creek CD because of this. Hopefully, using this word was worth it for him". I personally wouldn't even want fans that boycotted me after a single word. Trust me, for every one person that was offended by the word, 50 were not.
Description of How to Grow a Woman from the Ground
What goes around, comes around. As the resident rock star in Nickel Creek (contrasting with the trio's more reserved Watkins siblings), mandolinist Chris Thile has sent his music soaring in surprising directions from its bluegrass base. Though this solo release finds him dipping into the songbooks of the White Stripes ("Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground") and the Strokes ("Heart in a Cage"), much of the music sticks closer to tradition than Thile has in recent years. Among the highlights are an uptempo romp through Gillian Welch's "Wayside (Back in Time)," a pretty fair yodel on Jimmie Rodgers's "Brakeman's Blues," the close harmonies of the bluesy "If the Sea Was Whiskey," and Thile's original "You're an Angel and I'm Gonna Cry," classic country weeper. Five of the fourteen cuts are instrumental, with the opening "Watch 'at Breakdown" combining bluegrass instrumentation and jazzy sophistication, and "The Beekeeper" giving Thile's fingers a chance to fly. --Don McLeeseGeneral CDs
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