Steve Gillette

Steve Gillette

ASIN: B000000EJH

Track Listings

1. Erlking

2. Back on the Street Again

3. Number and a Name

4. You Don't Know Her Like I Do

5. Darcy Farrow

6. 2:10 Train

7. Bells in the Evening

8. Ten Thousand Times Ten

9. Springtime Meadows

10. Molly and Tenbrooks

11. Many the Times

12. Goin' Home Song

Steve Gillette,Steve Gillette,Vanguard Records,Blues,Contemporary Country,Pop

Average customer rating: One of the Best 12 String Guitar players to ever grace this country A TIMELESS FOLK CLASSIC!! One of my favorites Craftsmanship Amazing

Steve Gillette Steve Gillette Manufacturer: Vanguard Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Contemporary Blues | Blues | Styles | Music General | Blues | Styles | Music General | Contemporary Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Country | Styles | Music Contemporary | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music Similar Items: Texas & Tennessee A Sense of Place All the Roadrunning Adieu False Heart The Calling ASIN: B000000EJG Release Date: 1993-12-05

Tracks:

1. The Erlking
2. Back On The Street Again
3. A Number and A Name
4. You Don't Know Her Like I Do
5. Darcy Farrow
6. 2:10 Train
7. The Bells In The Evening
8. Ten Thousand Times Ten
9. Springtime Meadows
10. Molly And Tenbrooks
11. Many The Times
12. Goin' Home Song

Customer Reviews:

One of the Best 12 String Guitar players to ever grace this country.......2006-01-13

A TIMELESS FOLK CLASSIC!!.......2004-04-17

One of my favorites.......2001-09-08

Craftsmanship.......2001-02-27

Even though this album is his first, the musicianship and song writing craftsmanship still stand up today. We all know that his songs have appeared on several other albums by other singers and that he is appreciated in the business. That not withstanding, Steve Gillette's delivery do his own tunes better justice.

The album is solid from start to finish, but of specific note is his rendition of the Goethe poem "Erlkonig". Schubert's version is a monument to his time and Steve Gillette's version is a monument for ours.

This is a must album for any serious collection.

Amazing.......2000-07-18

Average customer rating: Really Excellent CD by an Excellent group! It is the work of the Weavers!!! revival folk revived

Fourtold Fourtold Manufacturer: Appleseed Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Revival | Folk | Styles | Music General | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music Similar Items: Paradise Lost & Found Best of Friends Time Under American Skies Voices ASIN: B00008XS2U Release Date: 2003-05-20

Tracks:

1. Four Rode By
2. Molly And Tenbrooks
3. Pendle Hill
4. Joshua Gone Barbados
5. Panther In Michigan
6. Darcy Farrow
7. Ballad Of Springhill
8. Aramalee
9. The Nine Little Goblins
10. Two Men In The Building
11. I Drew My Ship
12. Run, Come, See Jerusalem

Album Description

This configuration of long-time friends and mix-and-match collaborators came together as a mutual admiration society with a mission: "The material we chose had to be story songs that lent themselves to four-part harmony," says Anne Hills. So the members of Fourtold set out to make what could be described as an old-fashioned folk record - evocative songs about events and adventures, rather than innermost feelings, conveyed by an ever-shifting tapestry of glorious voices and warm, quietly virtuosic instrumentation.

Despite diverse origins, the songs on FOURTOLD seem as old as the family bible, as new as the morning newspaper. There are tales, real or imagined, of Western badmen (Ian Tyson's "Four Rode By"), epic horse races ("Molly and Tenbrooks"), witches and imps ("Pendle Hill," "The Nine Little Goblins"), doomed miners ("Ballad of Springhill"), assassination theories ("Two Men in the Building"), maidens besting murderous suitors ("Aramalee"), nautical disasters ("Run, Come, See Jerusalem"), and a new version of Steve Gillette's "Darcy Farrow," previously recorded by more than 300 singers and often mistaken for a traditional ballad.

With four world-class voices weaving rich, varied leads and harmonies on a sumptuous loom of acoustic guitars, banjo, accordion, concertina and bass (the latter played by producer/performer Scott Petito), listening to FOURTOLD is like reading a well-chosen anthology of short stories. This is folk music by inspired experts, reveling in each other's skills on an instantly classic CD.

Customer Reviews:

Really Excellent CD by an Excellent group!.......2005-10-02

It is the work of the Weavers!!!.......2004-01-06

revival folk revived.......2003-08-30

Fourtold is a quartet made up of husband-and-wife Steve Gillette and Cindy Mangsen, Anne Hills, and Michael Smith. Gillette and Smith have deserved reputations as formidable songwriters. Gillette's "Darcy Farrow" (written with Tom Campbell) is among the finest new songs to come out of the 1960s revival, and as good an imitation-trad ballad as anyone has ever written. Smith composed the often-covered "The Dutchman," which is not among my favorite songs, and "Panther in Michigan," which is.

Their current project revives -- on a smarter, more sophisticated level -- the harmony groups that began with the Weavers in the early 1950s and continued with the Tarriers, the Brothers Four, the Journeymen, and the like, before the style faded out of fashion and radio play in the mid-1960s. There have been occasional attempts to revive it. In the 1980s the long-forgotten Village Squares tried, without notable musical or esthetic sense, to shed soft-core folk's twee image and reinvent it as hip, attitude-bristling stance. A few years ago John Stewart and Darwin's Army botched an attempt to reintroduce and modernize a Kingston Trio sound. Only a mid-1990s political-humor group, the Foremen, pulled it off, mainly by writing hilariously, nastily satirical songs in the manner of a latterday Chad Mitchell Trio. Michael Smith has toured with a group calling itself Weavermania!, which recreates the repertoire of the Weavers. I imagine few nongray hairs in the audience. In 2003 the mockumentary A Mighty Wind made merry with an imagined reunion of what a friend of mine calls "fauxk singers."

Fourtold isn't bad, a generally successful effort to do serious music with an approach history has judged not exactly the most obviously promising. If you demand that your folk music be hard-edged and authentic -- actually, I do, usually -- this may not be for you. The faults are hard not to notice, for example the vapid arrangement of Eric von Schmidt's calypso "Joshua Gone Barbados," square enough to turn "Sonny Chile" into "Sonny Child." (To hear it done right, hunt up Tom Rush's tasty version or, better yet, Johnny Cash's definitive one.) "Ballad of Springhill" still sounds like something Peggy Seeger both wrote and sang -- which, in fact, it is -- and that can mean only one thing: Run!

On the other hand, "Darcy Farrow," lovely as always, never wears out its welcome. "Four Rode by," the great Ian and Sylvia song, gets a respectable treatment, and the traditional "I Drew My Ship," too seldom heard, makes a happy appearance. The arrangement of "Panther in Michigan" carries a bit too much baggage and suffers next to Smith's crisper solo version (on an out-of-print Flying Fish album from the 1980s), but it's still good to have it available again. The CD concludes with the spiritual "Run, Come, See Jerusalem" performed as the Weavers might have done it, except that Fourtold's version mercifully avoids the fingernails-on-chalkboard effect Weavers records invariably have on me.

In sum: good songs mostly done decently and, on the whole, an amiable, modest pleasure.

Average customer rating:

Point Blank/Outfit Manufacturer: Film Score Monthly ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Film Scores | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music ASIN: B0006SSQHK Release Date: 2005-01-11

Tracks:

1. Opening/Main Title [From Point Blank]
2. Trackdown [From Point Blank]
3. Unquestioned Answers [From Point Blank]
4. Nostalgic Monologue [From Point Blank]
5. Nightmare [From Point Blank]
6. At the Window/The Bathroom [From Point Blank]
7. Joy Ride/Mighty Good Times [From Point Blank]
8. Chris to Reese's Lair [From Point Blank]
9. This Way to Heaven [From Point Blank]
10. I'll Slip Out of Something Comfortable/Reese Gets His [From Point ...]
11. Reese's Wake [From Point Blank]
12. Money Men [From Point Blank]
13. Payoff [From Point Blank]
14. Back to Chris [From Point Blank]
15. Count Source [From Point Blank]
16. Chris Scores [From Point Blank]
17. To Fort Point [From Point Blank]
18. End Title [From Point Blank]
19. Taxi in the Rain/Parish Priest/Eddie's Dead [From the Outfit]
20. Quentin Blue [From the Outfit]
21. Hotel Corridor/Bad Right Ear [From the Outfit]
22. Eddie's Funeral [From the Outfit]
23. Her Mama Passed Away [From the Outfit]
24. Office Scuffle/Kenilworth Heist/Casino Heist [From the Outfit]
25. Through the Fields of Summer [From the Outfit]
26. "I Called My Daddy"/Laffin' and Scratchin'/She Is Dead [From the ...]
27. Mansion Gates/Assault on Impregnable Fortress of Anti-Social Adversary
28. After the Brawl Is Over [From the Outfit]
29. Finale [From the Outfit]

Average customer rating: Just Plain Beautiful! Stunned STEVE JUST KEEPS GETTING BETTER AND BETTER

Texas & Tennessee Steve Gillette Manufacturer: Redwing Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Contemporary Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Country | Styles | Music General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music Contemporary | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music General | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | Folk | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Steve Gillette We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions All the Roadrunning ASIN: B00000C2IT Release Date: 1998-10-13

Tracks:

1. Here's To The Rocky Road
2. Cornstalk Pony
3. Ghost Rider's Medley
4. Railroad Written All Over Him
5. Two Ten Train
6. Two Men In The Building
7. Lorena
8. No Pronuncias Mi Nombre
9. The Windows Of Heaven
10. One Door
11. The Eye Of The Hurricane
12. The West Texas Wind
13. If You're Ever In Texas

Customer Reviews:

Just Plain Beautiful!.......2004-05-17

I'm seeking out his other albums!

Stunned.......2000-03-14

STEVE JUST KEEPS GETTING BETTER AND BETTER.......1999-08-24

Average customer rating: Perfect Harmony

A Sense of Place Steve Gillette & Cindy Mangsen Manufacturer: Redwing Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Contemporary Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Country | Styles | Music Outlaw & Progressive Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music Contemporary | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music General | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music Country Folk | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | Folk | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Steve Gillette Never Grow Old Songs of Experience Voices Voices of Winter ASIN: B000058TBG Release Date: 2001-03-06

Tracks:

1. Tide And The River Rising
2. Sunrise
3. Reel Beatrice
4. Eclipse
5. Traveler
6. Margery Grey
7. Buddy & Carol's Waltz
8. Ou Vas-Tu, Mon Petit Garcon?/Point Au Pic
9. The Architecture Song
10. Shenandoah Falls/Cincinnati Rag
11. When The First Leaves Fall
12. Long, Long Trail

Customer Reviews:

Perfect Harmony.......2003-04-11

Average customer rating:

The Ways Of The World Steve Gillette Manufacturer: Compass Rose ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000Q7ROLK

Product Description

Average customer rating:

Being There Steve Gillette and Cindy Mangsen ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music ASIN: B000GEU2SK Release Date: 2006-05-16

Average customer rating:

Light of Day Steve Gillette Manufacturer: Brambus/Traditions Alive ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000N0KUAM Release Date: 2006-10-10

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