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Roots-music disciple Gillian Welch never met a languid, Spartan arrangement she couldn't sidle up to and charm. On Soul Journey, though, her slow, earnest songs (co-written with longtime collaborator David Rawlings) don't have the texture of those from her three previous albums. Tracks such as "Lowlands" and "One Monkey" are meant to sound stately and austere, but they just seem stagnant. By contrast, Welch rises to the occasion of the album's few up-tempo numbers: On the bluegrass session "No One Knows My Name," which owes sonic debts to Ralph Stanley and Charley Patton, she laments, "My mother was just a girl, seventeen/It's a wonder that I'm in this world at all." And on "One Little Song," she pines for "one little word that ain't been abused a thousand times/In a thousand rhymes." Sometimes, she even finds it.
JON CARAMANICA
(From RS 924, June 12, 2003)
(Posted: May 20, 2003)
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Track List
- Look At Miss Ohio
- Make Me A Pallet On Your Floor
- Wayside,Back In Time
- I Had A Real Good Mother And Father
- One Monkey
- No One Knows My Name
- Lowlands
- One Little Song
- I Made A Lovers Prayer
- Wrecking Ball
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