Gillian Welch & David Rawlings - The Revival demos (PRevival)
1995 (february 3?)
SBD>?>CDR>EAC>FLAC
(artwork incl.)



1- 455 Rocket (Mattea, Welch)
2- Play it Slow
3- Tear My Stillhouse Down
4- Orphan Girl
5- Pass You By
6- One More Dollar
7- Red Clay Halo
8- Birds of a Feather
9- Making Time
10- I Don't Want To Go Downtown
11- We Must Look Like We're In Love
12- Forty One Dollars And Change
13- Unfinished Business
14- Why He Needs Me

total 50:31


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."


great set and by no means "far less effective", but can't argue taste I guess.

enjoy,



wonderboy, dimeadozen.org (DIME), 2005/04/14