█████████████████████████████████████████████████ ░ ▓▓
██████████████████████████████████████████████████ ░ ▒▒
████████████████████████████████████████████ ░ ▒▓
█████████████████████████████████████████ ░▒ ▒▒
░██████████████████████████████████████▒▒▓ ▓
███████████████████████████████████████ ▒░
████████████████████████████████████ █
██████████████████████████████████▒ █
▓█████████████████████████████████ ▒
████████████████████████████████ ▒▒
▒██████████████████████████████ ▒█
█████████████████████████████ ▒█▓▒
████████████████████████████ ░██░
░█░ ███████████████████████████ ████
██████████████████████████▒ ▓████
█████████████████████████▓ █████░
█████████████████████████▓ ██████░
████████████████████████▓ ███████
███████████████████████▓ ████████▒
▓█████████████████████▒ ▓█████████
████████████████████░ ░███████████▒
█████████░██████▓░ ▒█████████████▒
██████▓ ██ ▒▒█████████████████▒
░█████ ███ ░ ░▒████████████████████▒▒
██████▒░█▒██░█ █▒ ████████████████████████▒
████████▒ ▓███ ████▓█ ██████████████████████░
███████ ▒ ░██░ █ ███ ▒███████████████████████
███████░ ▒ ███ █ ░██████████████████████████
████████▓ ▓█░ ▒██████████████████████████████▒
████████░▒██▒██████████████████████████████████
████████████ █████████████████████████████████▒
████████████ ████████████████████████████████
████████████▓░██████████████████████████████▒ ████ ██ ██
█████████████ █████████████████████████████▒ ██ ██
██████████████████████████████████████████ ████ ██ ████ █████ ████
█████████████████████████████████████████ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██
███████████████████████████████████████▓ ██████ ██ ██ ██ ██████
██████████████████████████████████████ ██ ██ ██ ██ █ ██
████████████████████████████████████▒ █████ ██████ ██████ ███ █████
███████████████████████████████████▒ ▒
█████████████████████████████████ ▒▒░ ELITE RECORD PLAYERS
███████████████████████████████ ▒▒
█████████████████████████████ ▒ ▒▒
██████████████████████████▓ ▒▒▒
████████████████████████ ░▒
████████████████████ ░▒▓▒ ░
███████████████▒▒░░▒░█░ ░
┌────────┐
────┤ Info ├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
└────────┘
Artist | Jesse Winchester
Title | Jesse Winchester / Third Down, 110 To Go
Genre | Folk/Rock Format | Album
Source | CDDA Time | 65:13
Label | Edsel Records Store | 2012
Catalog | EDSS 1073 Rip | 2016
Bitrate | 231 kbps Size | 114.00 MB
Freq | 44.1 kHz Encoder | Lame 3.98.4
┌────────┐
────┤ Tracks ├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
└────────┘
Jesse Winchester (1970)
01. Payday 2:55
02. Biloxi 3:21
03. Snow 2:23
04. The Brand New Tennessee Waltz 3:09
05. That's A Touch I Like 2:50
06. Yankee Lady 4:03
07. Quiet About It 2:30
08. Skip Rope Song 2:27
09. Rosy Shy 3:06
10. Black Dog 4:44
11. The Nudge 3:34
Third Down, 110 To Go (1972)
12. Isn't That So 2:29
13. Dangerous Fun 2:08
14. Full Moon 2:07
15. North Star 2:02
16. Do It 1:31
17. Lullaby For The First Born 2:57
18. Midnight Bus 2:20
19. Glory To The Day 3:50
20. The Easy Way 1:33
21. Do La Lay 1:57
22. God's Own Jukebox 1:44
23. Silly Heart 2:55
24. All Of Your Stories 2:38
┌────────┐
────┤ Notes ├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
└────────┘
Jesse Winchester was the music world's most prominent Vietnam War draft
evader, though his renown came from a body of wry, closely observed songs.
After growing up in Memphis, Winchester received his draft notice in 1967
and moved to Montreal, Canada, rather than serve in the military. In 1969,
he met Robbie Robertson of The Band, who helped launch his recording
career. In the same way that James Taylor's history of mental instability
and drug abuse served as a subtext for his early music, Winchester's exile
lent real-life poignancy to songs like "Yankee Lady", which appeared on his
debut album, "Jesse Winchester" (1970). He became a Canadian citizen in
1973.
Jesse Winchester first gained notice as a protege of The Band's Robbie
Robertson, who produced and played guitar on his debut album JESSE
WINCHESTER and brought along bandmate Levon Helm to play drums and
mandolin. The album had much of the rustic Southern charm and rollicking
country-rock of the Band. Winchester's other immediate appeal was a certain
sense of mystery. A Southern American expatriate living in Canada, he was
unable to appear in the US to promote the album, which was released in a
fold-out LP jacket that featured the same sepia-toned portrait (which
looked like one of those austere Matthew Brady photos from the Civil War
era) on each of its four sides.
Winchester emphasized the dichotomy between his southern origins and his
northern exile in songs like "Snow" (which Robertson co-wrote), "The Brand
New Tennessee Waltz" ('I've a sadness too sad to be true'), and "Yankee
Lady". JESSE WINCHESTER was timely: it spoke to a disaffected American
generation that sympathized with Winchester's pacifism. But it was also
timeless: the songs revealed a powerful writing talent (recognized by the
numerous artists who covered them), and Winchester's gentle vocals made a
wonderful vehicle for delivering them.
If Jesse Winchester's debut album was an auspicious introduction to a
powerful new songwriting talent, his two-and-a-half-years-in-the-making
follow-up THIRD DOWN, 110 TO GO was in some ways even more impressive.
Without the influence of Robbie Robertson, Winchester, who produced most of
the album himself (three tracks were handled by Todd Rundgren), gave it a
homemade feel, using small collections of acoustic instruments, an
appropriate setting for a group of short, intimate songs that expressed a
deliberately positive worldview set against an acknowledgement of desperate
times.
Winchester found hope in religion and domesticity, but the key to his
stance was a kind of good-humored accommodation. 'If the wheel is fixed',
he sang, 'I would still take a chance. If we're skating on thin ice, then
we might as well dance'. The album was littered with such examples of
aphoristic folk wisdom, adding up to a portrait of a man, cut off from his
very deep roots and yet determined to maintain his dignity with grace and
even occasionally a goofy sense of humor.
Winchester's two first, and best, albums in one set.
┌────────┐
────┤ Group ├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
└────────┘