Hell Among the Yearlings
Author: Welch, Gillian
Format: Import
Release Date: 28-07-1998
Details: Amazon.ca On her remarkable debut, Revival, Gillian Welch sang of men and women who were intimately tied to others, even as they died 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
UPC: 705178002121
EAN: 0705178002121
Binding: Audio CD
Item Condition: UsedVeryGood