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Artist | James Yorkston
Title | The Cellardyke Recording And Wassailing Society
Genre | Folk Format | Album
Source | CDDA Time | 61:11
Label | Domino Recording Co. Store | 2014
Catalog | WIGCD329 Rip | 2015
Bitrate | 210 kbps Size | 97.87 MB
Freq | 44.1 kHz Encoder | Lame 3.98.4
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01. Fellow Man 4:17
02. The Blues You Sang 4:45
03. Sweet Sweet 3:59
04. Guy Fawkes' Signature 5:32
05. Thinking About Kat 3:21
06. Feathers Are Falling 4:03
07. Broken Wave (A Blues For Doogie) 5:13
08. Red Fox 3:15
09. King Of The Moles 3:45
10. Great Ghosts 4:15
11. Sleep On 2:18
12. Embers 4:45
13. Honey On Thigh 2:06
14. As Grey And As White 2:42
15. The Very Very Best 4:12
16. You & Your Sister 2:43
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James Yorkston was born in Kingsbarns, a small village in Fife, Scotland.
At the age of eight, he started playing music and fell in love with the
craft. At 17, he moved from Fife to the larger city of Edinburgh with his
girlfriend. It was at that time that he became involved with a garage rock
and punk band called Huckleberry, with Yorkston as the group's bass player.
In 1996, he performed his first acoustic show after a friend working in a
record shop picked Yorkston as an opening act for Bert Jansch in Edinburgh.
The acoustic and punk rock genres were something the musician loved
equally, but he chose the acoustic folk route.
Since his debut in 2002, each James Yorkston album has been a
semi-structured unspooling of the mind and heart, captained by a host of
disparate producers yet threaded together in one lifelong narrative. Each
collection is slightly evolved, bearing different sounds, stories, and
personnel, but intrinsically connected to his life and personal mythology.
As a folksinger, one of Yorkston's talents is to make it sound loose and
easy when the truth is that few artists are able to carry on this kind of
meaningful and distinctive conversation for so long without wearing out
their welcome on the barstool.
For his eighth album, the colorfully titled "Cellardyke Recording and
Wassailing Society", he recruits Hot Chip's Alexis Taylor to steer the ship
with fellow Fife native KT Tunstall weaving her voice throughout this
compelling, though quite lengthy, collection. Opening number "Fellow Man"
acts as a sort of proclamation, introducing the cast of voices, characters,
and even concepts, with the song's refrain 'I'm full of love for my fellow
man' resurfacing again on the wonderful spoken word depiction of a nosy
neighbor, "Guy Fawkes' Signature". Examinations of love, anger,
forgiveness, fatherhood, and life in his small Scottish seaside town
comprise his lyrical content and are delivered with his typical mix of wit,
obscure poeticism, and outright frankness.
From the pagan dreamscape of "Red Fox" to the humanity of "The Very Very
Best," Yorkston delivers his tales, his problems, his joys, and his
observations with an earthy and honest enchantment. As the evocative,
Watersons-esque title suggests, Taylor's production presents Cellardyke
more as a group recording, with himself and Tunstall providing harmonies
and even lead vocals throughout. Fiddles, electric guitar, double bass,
percussion, and additional vocals from a crew that includes fellow Fence
Collective alum the Pictish Trail and longtime collaborators Jon Thorne and
Emma Smith lend to the album's live, familial feeling. Still, this is
Yorkston's world and story, and his gently picked guitar and rough-hewn
voice provide the heart of yet another fine release.
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