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Gillian Welch & David Rawlings   ??/??/1995

"PRevival", Revival Demos, Studio
Source SBD>?>CDR>EAC>FLAC
Media HDD
Notes web quotes:
"Full-band demos for Revival, sounding drastically different to the final release. The mournful, sparse arrangements of the album are much more elaborate here, and there's a much greater emphasis on the harmonica on several tracks. Whilst it's an interesting listen I find it far less effective than the finished version. I don't know exactly what remastering was involved, but the sound quality of these demos is absolutely phenomenal. Whatever it was, somebody did something right!"

"A little more country feel than studio release."

"Welch and David Rawlings ("We're a two-piece band called Gillian Welch," she explains) met at Boston's Berklee School Of Music, and moved to Nashville in 1992. Four years later, having patiently plied her trade on the city's songwriter's circuit, Welch released her debut album, Revival, in 1996. Its music drew on country's pre-war roots in the Appalachian mountains, while its lyrics took in - among other elements - rural poverty, illicit brewing, and the most god-fearing kind of Christianity. According to one US magazine, Revival sounded "like an aural translation of Depression-era photographs by Dorothea Lange or Walker Evans."
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Owned by JohnO · Last Updated May 23, 2023