Grey Delisle - The Graceful Ghost (2004) {Sugar Hill}
EAC Rip | FLAC with CUE and log | scans | 278 mb
MP3 CBR 320kbps | RAR | 132 mb
Genre: country, Americana
EAC Rip | FLAC with CUE and log | scans | 278 mb
MP3 CBR 320kbps | RAR | 132 mb
Genre: country, Americana
The Graceful Ghost is the 2004 CD by singer/musician Grey Delisle. In other circles, she is known as a successful voice-over artist doing a number of voices for cartoons and animated features but she was a success with her own musical career as well.
Released by the Sugar Hill label on 16 March, 2004, this was an enhanced CD so a separate folder with "extras" can be found within the lossless version. The "extras" file is not in the MP3 version.
New millennium trad country fans have been fortunate; there has been a slew of young women who have been turning in stellar recorded performances that draw on country music's roots-rich folk and gospel traditions. Grey Delisle from Los Angeles is the latest addition, but like fellow Angelino Gillian Welch, she comes at history in a different, almost antiquated way. With husband/producer/guitarist Murry Hammond (of Old 97's), stringed-instrument enigma Marvin Etzioni, and bassist Sheldon Gomberg, DeLisle crafts a chamber country gothic sound that feels like a mountain Flannery O'Connor writing for a young Dolly Parton in a string band for the Louvins fronted by a woman. Her songs, all of them, offer visions of romantic loss and longing, sin and redemption. The topics may be typical, but the performance is anything but. From the look on the front cover to the warm, reedy analog production to the songs themselves – Delisle claims they are all about a then-long-distance engagement between herself and Hammond over phone lines from Nogales to Los Angeles – there is nothing common, mundane, or biz as usual in this brutally tender set. The emotion here is quiet and purposeful, offered in starkness and recalling an America that communicated its heart directly with little adornment. This is country music out of space and time, reeking not one bit of revivalism or gimmick or artifice. This is a song cycle that is held fast with honesty and artistry, and there isn't a nod or a wink in the proceedings. The Graceful Ghost is a very special album; it will appeal to anyone who has ever taken American traditional music seriously and will blow away anyone who has ever considered the craft in songwriting to be a lost art – the Grail is here.
01. The Jewel Of Abilene
02. Sweet Savior's Arms
03. Sharecroppin' Man
04. Walking In A Line
05. The Maple Tree
06. Tell Me True
07. Turtle Dove
08. Black Haired Boy
09. Haty Allen
10. This White Circle On My Finger
11. Sawyer
12. Pretty Little Dreamer
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Grey DeLisle-vox, autoharp, music box, ghost vox, invisible backward music box
Murray Hammond-vox, acoustic guitar, Indian harmonium, thunderplate, yodeling, invisible backward music box
Marvin Etzioni-acoustic guitar, banjolin, celeste, pedal harmonium, piano, standup whale bass, invisible backward music box
Sheldon Gomberg-standup bass
Greg Leisz-the last chord
Produced by Marvin Etzioni
Recorded by Todd Burke at The West Texas Tube Room, Glendale, California
Engineered by Todd Burke
Mixed by David Vaught at Camp David, Thousand Oaks, CA
Mastered by Brian "Big Bass" Gardener at Bernie Grundman Mastering
EAC extraction logfile from 14. January 2007, 6:35 for CD
Grey DeLisle / The Graceful Ghost
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Grey DeLisle / The Graceful Ghost
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