Time (The Revelator)
by Gillian Welch
US$10 from bandcamp.com
Released in 2001 and co-written by David Rawlings, this album contains stripped-down (guitar, banjo) alternative country songs, guided by Welch's sinewy, hypnotic voice.
The lyrics bring characters to life, like on “My First Lover”: “He was tall and breezy with his long hair down, but he gets a little hazy when I think of him now…”Or on “Elvis Presley Blues”: “He put on a shirt his mother made and went on the air…”
Most songs are taut, like perfectly made short films (“Red Clay Halo”, for example, and “I Want to Sing That Rock and Roll”), but the final track, the 14-minute “I Dream a Highway”, is what you're here for. Sometimes I'm driving in the middle of nowhere, in complete…
