Исполнитель: Ruthie Foster
Альбом: Let It Burn
Год выпуска: 2012
Стиль: Gospel Blues, Gospel, Soul
Формат: mp3 / flac (image, cue, log)
Битрейт: 320 kbps / Flac-8
Время звучания: 53:04
Размер файла:
122.3 MB / 335.53 MB___________________________
Tracklist:
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01 Welcome Home (with The Blind Boys Of Alabama)
02 Set Fire to the Rain
03 This Time
04 You Don't Miss Your Water (with William Bell)
05 Everlasting Light
06 Lord Remember Me (with The Blind Boys Of Alabama)
07 Ring of Fire
08 Aim for the Heart
09 It Makes No Difference
10 Long Time Gone (with The Blind Boys Of Alabama)
11 Don't Want to Know
12 If I Had a Hammer
13 The Titanic (with The Blind Boys Of Alabama)
[spoyler=By Steve Horowitz 31 January 2012]
The Church Is on Fire
Ruthie Foster first sang in the church choir while growing up in rural
Texas. While she became successful mixing folk, blues, rock and country
together in that way that seems so natural in Lone Star performers,
there was always a gospel element in the way she delivered her vocals.
She openly emphasizes this aspect of her voice on her latest album, Let
It Burn, by choosing appropriately churchy accompaniment that includes
the Blind Boys of Alabama on four tracks and master Hammond B3 organist
Ike Stubblefield, and selecting righteous material that includes
everything from old time spirituals, such as "The Titanic” to the Stax
standard "You Don’t Miss the Water” (duetting with the original hit
maker, William Bell), to self-penned spirituals, such as "Lord Remember
Me” to Adele’s elemental "Set Fire to the Rain”. The results make the
listener want to jump in the aisles and shout with joy.
This is the first album in which Foster only sings and does not play
guitar. This allows her to concentrate on her vocals. Foster always
sings well, but this time she seems to be challenging herself to do more
than just emote in key. Sure, she still does this, but she also uses
her vocals as an instrument and banters along with David Easely’s
sliding guitar notes, or Stubblefield’s ringing organ reverberations.
For example, Easely begins the Black Key’s "Everlasting Light” with a
crunchy guitar riff that sounds made in the mud it’s so damn down and
dirty. Foster joins in with an almost growl but takes the music up a
notch by singing long lines so that when Stubblefield’s organ comes in
it sounds as if we are already on the road to redemption. He just drives
us home. The rest of the band also deserves mention. New Orleans
musicians George Porter Jr. (bass), Russell Batiste (drums), and James
Rivers (saxophone) all make solid, soulful contributions.
Foster also takes some very familiar material, such as Johnnie Cash’s
hit "Ring of Fire” into something far different than its original
source. She makes the burning love into something much sweeter and
urbane than Cash’s. When she croons "the taste of love is sweet”, one
can almost taste the honey dripping from her tongue. It seems that she
and Cash are singing two completely dissimilar songs. The divergence
from an original is also true of her rendition of "If I Had a Hammer.”
Pete Seeger sang it as a communal celebration. Foster turns it into an
individual cry of empowerment. These two songs are iconic members of
contemporary music. Foster makes them her own by showing facets of the
well-worn material that had been hitherto neglected.
The Blind Boys of Alabama turn each of their four cuts into a holy
celebration. They and Foster open and close the disc with religious
fervour. The strangest track is the somewhat dated version of ‘60s rock
classic, Crosby, Stills & Nash’s "Long Time Gone”. Foster uses the
occasions to spread the song’s message ("You gotta speak out against the
madness /speak out if you dare”), but on a record filled with religious
conviction, this social message seems forced and flat. Foster’s much
better when she gets personal. Her version of John Martyn’s "Don’t Want
to Know” that starts "I don’t want to know about evil / I just want to
know about love” positively smolders. She can successfully take that
sentiment to the church, but not to the streets.
[/spoyler]
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Ruthie Foster - Let It Burn (2012) [mp3].rar
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