Gillian Welch - Hell Among the Yearlings
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Artist: Gillian WelchEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued
CD Release Date: 2001-06-12
Music Label: Acony Records
Soundtracks:
- Caleb Meyer
- Good Til Now
- The Devil Had a Hold of Me
- My Morphine
- One Morning
- Miner's Refrain
- Honey Now
- I'm Not Afraid to Die
- Rock of Ages
- Whiskey Girl
- Winter's Come and Gone
Music reviews of Hell Among the Yearlings
Music Review: Once Again, She'll Be Coming Around The Mountain
Rating: 4 Stars
The bulk of this review has also been used to review Gillian Welch's "Revival". The points made there aplly here as well. Although that effort was slightly superior than the CD reviewed here.
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The Carter Family, Maybelle and Sara Carter, June Carter Cash, Jean Ritchie and so on. What they all have in common is that they form part of the line of our common mountain music heritage. I am sure that there are others whom I could have included without doing an injustice but I wanted to make this point. Just as the folk revivalists of the 1960's searched for roots musicians (once they knew they were still alive and kicking and waiting, just waiting, for a second chance) to emulate and then extend those musical traditions today there is a need for develop a new generation of mountain music singers. That task has been made infinitely easier by the emergence over the past decade or so of Gilliam Welch in order to keep this mournful mountain music alive. This CD under review, "Revival", from 1996 is my prima facie case for that last statement.
I do not, honestly, know the details of this singer's background although I have heard that she is from some upscale background in California. And that is the rub here. Before I knew that information, whether it is true or not, I would have sworn on that proverbial stack of bibles that she was from the hills and hollows of Harlan County, Kentucky or somewhere nearby. That gives her plenty of credibility in my circles. What gives her more, much more is her voice and her song selection as she goes through the mountain women's litany of troubles: not enough money, two many kids, a hard-drinking, two- fisted man who takes out his frustrations on ... well you know the rest. And then there are the songs of lost, like "Orphan Girl" (the first song of Ms. Welch's that I ever heard), longing and, of course, out in those lonely hills facing an inscrutable god, death. Stand outs here are the gruesome "Caleb Meyer" and the soulful "Miner's Refrain". Welcome to the mountain music tradition.
Description of Hell Among the Yearlings
Second album from the melancholic folk revivalist from 1998. Produced by T. Bone Burnett. Acony Records.A much more quietly celebrated CD than her debut, Gillian Welch's sophomore effort assured fans of old-timey country folk that she was salt of the earth. Her songs speak with both plaintive yearning and a seasoned storyteller's moxie, urged on by her and David Rawlings's economical guitar picking and strumming. Welch's vocal timbre bears ideally twangy power, giving her a constantly strong vault into her similarly creative tales, which help place this CD clearly in the realm of the exceptional. -- Andrew Bartlett
On her remarkable debut, Revival, Gillian Welch sang of men and women who were intimately tied to others, even as they mourned dead children or lost homes. Hell Among the Yearlings finds Welch in even darker territory. In this world, loss can't be assuaged by human connection because there is none: morphine junkies, dying hobos, and alienated workers stand utterly alone in a sparse landscape where hope comes, if at all, in merely surviving. For example, the woman who kills her rapist or the singer who unconvincingly declares her troubles have flown because "Winter's Come and Gone." Appropriately, Welch's stunning voice goes it alone, surrounded by little more than her own banjo and the spare old- time and country-blues guitar of partner David Rawlings. --David Cantwell
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