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:: Release Info:
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:: Artist......> Television Hill
:: Title.......> Twilight
:: Label.......> Teneral
:: Genre.......> Indie
:: Rip.Date....> Mar-26-2006
:: Street.Date.> 000-00-0000
:: Source......> CDDA
:: Quality.....> VBRkbps - Full Stereo
:: Play Time...> 62:51 min
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:: Track Listing:
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:: 01. Jewel of Texas
:: 02. Mulberry Bush
:: 03. Bamako Express
:: 04. Easy Come, Easy Go
:: 05. Saratoga
:: 06. Hostage Honey
:: 07. The King's Assassin
:: 08. John the Revelator
:: 09. Fine Fraulein
:: 10. Gunny Shiloh
:: 11. All the Tea in China
:: 12. Heloise, Please
:: 13. Ginx Blues
:: 14. Buttercup Maidens
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:: Release Notes:
::
:: There's something uneasily pretty in a lyric like "Well, I
:: used ta love my whiskey / and I used ta love my wife" --
:: maybe it's because "to" is spelled "ta" in the liner notes,
:: or perhaps it's because the whiskey comes before the wife.
:: Both are good guesses, but the odds are good that the real
:: reason the line is so alluring is because Television Hill
:: singer/songwriter Rob Wilson has pumped it full of old-time
:: country yodel and heartache. Over clean, pure country
:: arrangements, Wilson sings like he's recording in an
:: abandoned Appalachian shack. Probably closer in sound and
:: style to Phosphorescent's Matt Houck or Will Oldham than to
:: Blind Willie Johnson (whose "John the Revelator" is covered
:: here), Television Hill sounds more alive and more visceral
:: than any three modern country stars you'd care to name.
::
:: "Jewel of Texas", from which the quoted lyrics were taken,
:: waltzes in in a haze of lap steel, upright bass, guitar and
:: fiddle. The song is ostensibly about Isaac Cline, a US
:: Weather Service Bureau member from 1885-1935 who lost his
:: pregnant wife in a flood he declared impossible, but it's
:: filled with enough universality and pathos to make it a
:: perfect weeper for listeners who are in their cups. Wilson's
:: voice is mercurial, an emotional barometer, as ready to hold
:: a note as twist it tight, but it only works because his
:: backing band is sharp. They play straight-up country
:: arrangements, and they play them well.
::
:: Even when Wilson leads them toward the Caribbean (as he does
:: on "Bamako Express"), the band can't help but keep their
:: songs in the South. Twangy guitar licks, singing saw and a
:: lugubrious bass play the one and the four, married to
:: Wilson's voice, which has adopted enough of an island accent
:: to color the song a little further. Later, Wilson gives "Fine
:: Fraulein"'s chorus a Germanic edge -- a small misstep that
:: won't prevent the song from becoming a jukebox sing-along.
::
:: Although they sound like they're fresh off the bus from a
:: deep Southern state, Television Hill actually hail from
:: Baltimore. Yankees they may be, but their sound is pure
:: country rebel. Twilight is a hell of a dawn.
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:: Buy it if you like it!!
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