ARTiST: William Elliott Whitmore
TiTLE: Song Of The Blackbird
LABEL: Southern
GENRE: Folk
TiME: 31:07 min
SiZE: 40,1 MB
BiTRATE: VBRkbps
RiP DATE: Jul-27-2006
RELEASE DATE: Aug-28-2006
WEBSiTE: n/a
Track List:
01. Dry 03:39
02. The Chariot 03:18
03. One Man's Shame 04:29
04. Rest His Soul 03:48
05. And Then The Rains Came 02:17
06. Lee County Flood 03:18
07. Take It On The Chin 02:27
08. Red Buds 03:42
09. Everyday 04:09
Release Notes:
"This is American folk music stripped to its basics
but freed of any stultifying reverence. Whitmore
writes original which sound timeless in a voice
which doesn't fit his comparitive youth." - WIRE
William Elliott Whitmore hails from an Iowa horse
farm along the banks of the Mississippi River, and
his intense love and spiritual understanding of the
land is flawlessly conveyed on his albums for
Southern Records; a trilogy of albums collecting
songs overflowing with mortality, sorrowful joy and
attempts to make peace with a conflicted sense of
morality.
William's voice sounds decades older than his
tattered birth certificate indicates, burnished by
smoke and drink and full of emotional depth. While
comparisons to the gravelly voice of Tom Waits and
the lyrical story telling of Johnny Cash are
prevalent (and not altogether inaccurate), Mr.
Whitmore is clearly doing more than just
regenerating the music of the past.
Dark tales of life, love, lonliness and loss are the
cornerstones for his albums. These universal themes
of desperation and redemption served Charley Patton,
Robert Johnson and Henry Rollins well... and
Whitmore has perfected his own unique strain of the
rural folk blues with this impressive catalgoue.