Weaver Of Visions: The Kate Wolf Anthology

Weaver Of Visions: The Kate Wolf Anthology Artist: Kate Wolf
Label: Rhino / Wea
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2


UPC: 081227559625
EAN: 0081227559625
ASIN: B00004S7LY


Release Date: 2000-04-04

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  1. Best Female Singers
  2. Gone Too Soon: Greats who died too early
  3. B's and Ho's They Are Not pt. III
  4. Top Female Voices
  5. Things I dig.
  6. Simply great music

Tracks:

  1. Although I've Gone Away
  2. Green Eyes (Live)
  3. Emma Rose
  4. Like A River (Live)
  5. Old Jerome
  6. These Times We're Living In (Live)
  7. Sweet Love
  8. Across The Great Divide
  9. Brother Warrior
  10. Unfinished Life
  11. Eyes Of A Painter (Live)
  12. Safe At Anchor
  13. Give Yourself To Love (Live)
  14. The Trumpet Vine
  15. Slender Thread
  16. Muddy Roads
  17. Early Morning Melody
  18. Telluride

Tracks:

  1. Here In California
  2. Looking Back At You (Live)
  3. The Minstrel
  4. Picture Puzzle (Live)
  5. Cornflower Blue (Live)
  6. The Wind Blows Wild
  7. You're Not Standing Like You Used To
  8. Carolina Pines
  9. Medicine Wheel
  10. Two-Way Waltz
  11. The Lilac & The Apple
  12. Shadow Of A Life
  13. She Rises Like The Dolphin
  14. Poet's Heart
  15. Friend Of Mine (Live)
  16. Pacheco/The Redtail Hawk (Live)
  17. Back Roads

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Great cut........2007-03-09

As someone who attended Kate's funeral years ago, I remember walking into the service in Marin with "Give yourself to love" playing over the PA system. This is a great album that defined a generation of activists, new age values, and a group of interesting people.

5 out of 5 stars A new fan of Kate Wolf.......2007-02-23

I'd heard Kate's name from time to time, over the years, but never really got to know her music - until now, with this compilation.

As one of the other reviewers said, I'm also curious why she isn't better known.

Yes, there is a bit of similarity among the songs, but by becoming familiar with them one can hear and feel all the differences.

Spread the word, and spread her music!

5 out of 5 stars The Enduring Mystery of Kate Wolf.......2006-07-03

I first discovered Kate Wolf's music twenty years ago while traveling the Mendocino Coast. It's not really about Northern California, but like a fine wine it has a certain regional stamp to it which adds to its quality. In time I bought all of her CD's and her music, which gradually intertwined and merged with my life until it seemed as if the songs were a personal gift from her to me, which I eventually learned was an illusion held in common by just about all of her fans. And in all those years, whenever I brought up the subject of Kate Wolf with my friends in Southern California, I invariably got a blank stare in return, followed by the question, "Who's Kate Wolf?"

The mystery of Kate Wolf is why her enormous popularity is still mainly confined to Northern California, why such a great artist has only produced twelve reviews on this page, and why this quintessential Kate Wolf album isn't even among Amazon's top ten thousand selling CD's.

I don't know how many (if any)other musicians have an annual music festival dedicated to their memory, but Kate Wolf does and last week up near the Redwoods, the 11th annual such festival took place. The music was bluegrass, folk, and singer/songwriters with only an occasional Kate Wolf number thrown in, but her spirit was invoked from the stage more than once, and the festival closed out with the singing of one of Kate's signature songs, "Give Yourself to Love." The audience stood and sang along just as if it were a national anthem (and maybe it should be.)

So if this is your genre, if Kate's advice to "Give Yourself to Love" makes sense to you, or if her gentle warning that "We've Only Got These Times We're Living In" rings true, give her a listen, and you too can become part of California's best kept secret.

5 out of 5 stars Here in California..........2004-05-03

Nobody has ever captured the spirit of the rural West in music better than Kate Wolf. This generous set will satisfy almost anybody but those who have to have it all; for those who are just new to this astist, this is the best place to start - all killer, no filler. Some tracks are immediately addictive, while others reveal their pleasures more gradually.

Kate's songs are a celebration of passion, humanity, nature, healing, friendship, love, and much more. Her partners supported her with expert skills and arrangments that explored all the roots of American music, yet her style, concept, and delivery were completely her own. If Weaver of Visions is your first introduction to Kate, it may be a revelation.

5 out of 5 stars How did we ever learn to live without Kate.......2004-02-05

I feel so bad that I lived in San Fransisco and Oakland and travelled up and down California and the West Coast in the late 1970s and early 1980s when Kate was doing her best work and only saw her sing once. When I hear something like Sweet love on this CD, I wonder why I am not always listening to Kate. There is something to her voice that gets through to me, something pure. Now that I sing and play guitar and banjo and fiddle, I tend to listen to any singer or player that I hear trying to scope them out learn something, evaluate, figure out how to put what they do into my performance. Even though Kate plays the kind of music I have always wanted to play, I just sit there and listen to the song and receive its thoughts in my heart and mind. Part of Kate's magic is the superb arrangements and backup that gets from the musical genius Nina Gerber her main accompaniest. Nina is now out there solo alot. If you like guitar and this kind music check out Nina too.
Oh Kate, why didn't we realize how much of a golden treasure you were when you were among us. In her memory think of a performer you might miss like we all miss Kate--well that isnt fair because thats a big ideal to measure up to--how about someone you would miss half or a quarter as much as I miss Kate, and make sure you go see them while you can, and maybe bring a friend, bring two.

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  1. Love Is Everything: Anthology (Dig) ~ Jane Siberry
  2. Flight of the Cosmic Hippo ~ B%C3%A9la Fleck & the Flecktones
  3. The McGarrigle Hour ~ Kate & Anna McGarrigle
  4. Great Big Sun
  5. All The Time In The World ~ Lowen & Navarro
  6. Summer Side of Life ~ Gordon Lightfoot
  7. Voices Of The Civil Rights Movement: Black American Freedom Songs 1960-1966 ~ Various Artists
  8. Shake Sugaree ~ Elizabeth Cotten
  9. Christmas With the New Christy Minstrels: Complete ~ The New Christy Minstrels
  10. Sink Or Swim ~ Waifs

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Great Folk Songs ~ Danny Darrow

Terror ~ Loudness

Systems Go Wild ~ Soul Doctor

Assieme ~ Claudio Baglioni

Ballady ~ Maanam

Thalasa Sti Skala ~ Papakonstadinou Vasilis

Andrea Miro (Sanremo 2003) ~ Andrea Miro

Sambaland Club ~ Wilson Simoninha

Green Green 2: Koi No Special Summer: Ost ~ Game Music

Glorious Fool ~ John Martyn