Time (The Revelator) |
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Released: July 31, 2001 Peak: 157 US, -- UK, -- CN, -- AU Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Genre: alt country/Americana |
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All songs written by Gillian Welch and David Rawlings. Total Running Time: 51:34 |
Rating: 3.893 out of 5.00 (average of 29 ratings)
Quotable:“This is dark and hymnal country; rural, old-timey mountain music, haunting, plaintive, and as savagely beautiful as it gets.” – Tom MoonAwards:(Click on award to learn more).
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The Best of Modern Americana“The best Americana albums are so attuned to our shared reality that they enhance our understanding of the world around us – and our place in it. Gillian Welch’s third album, Time (The Revelator), is no exception.” PM “The timeless project radiates with wisdom and a quiet lust for life.” PM “This is dark and hymnal country; rural, old-timey mountain music, haunting, plaintive, and as savagely beautiful as it gets.” TMIt was “recorded on vintage equipment at Nashville’s historic Studio B.” TM “The sound is crisp and clean and heavenly pure, while the sparse, flat-picked guitar and close-voiced harmonies combine…to ghostly, plangent, effect.” TM “Her songs are rustic and at the same time…wise about the world.” RD Welch “pours the forthright tone associated with the legendary Carter Family into songs shot through with modern ambivalence.” RD “Even when the mood is front-porch plaintive, Welch’s songs speak to a moment being lived right now.” RD The songs are “sketches and portraits of people caught in the middle of various deceptions, haunted by memories they can’t shake and otherwise messed with by Papa Time.” RD Shift to More Rock and RollWelch said that these were “rock songs to be played on acoustic instruments.” RD Accordingly, she shifts “her attention from achingly beautiful mountain ballads to achingly beautiful pop/rock ballads.” AM Welch said, “As opposed to being little tiny folk songs or traditional songs, they’re really tiny rock songs. They're just performed in this acoustic setting. In our heads we went electric without changing instruments.” AM “This philosophy is most evident in” sup>AMElvis Presley Blues, a “fable about rock and roll heroism” RD and “the hushed awe” AM of I Want to Sing That Rock and Roll, was recorded live at the Ryman Auditorium.David RawlingsWelch once said, “Gillian Welch is a band with two members.” TM That other member is “longtime collaborator David Rawlings.” AM The “guitarist extraordinaire” TM accompanies “the weary-voiced singer” RD “on Louvin-esque high harmonies and vintage guitar.” AM “Their voices intertwine beautifully, with Rawling sometimes supplying high, hallowed-out harmonies that provide an extra shot of lonesomeness.” RDThe pair “are at the top of their form and continue to make the best Americana recordings without resorting to drenching their albums in guest stars, but by writing and performing heartfelt songs that speak with a clear and undeniable honesty.” AM “There is a scything contemporary edge…in Welch’s sluiced and aching words, and in the deftly fractured buckshot phrasing of her musical partner and guitarist extraordinaire David Rawlings.” TM ProductionRawlings’ “production on the album remains warm and intimate throughout, capturing the subtleties of the acoustic instruments and earthy harmonies.” AM The album is also produced by T-Bone Burnett, who produced the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack, which won the Grammy for Album of the Year. His presence is one of the reasons the album so successfully walks the line between classic, front-porch country blues from decades earlier and its modern Americana vibe.The Songs“The passionate romp Red Clay Halo…includes the best elements of time-honored folk stylings and their newfound passion for rock & roll.” AM “Fans of the duo’s neo-old-timey sound will be happy to hear a few of their familiar, intimate dust bowl folk songs peering through the fence posts.” AM“The banjo-driven My First Lover could've been recorded on Alan Lomax’s back porch, while the title track aches and moans along with the best of her two previous albums.” AM On the latter, “Welch mulls the cruel passage of time and uses it as inspiration to hit the road and find new horizons.” PM It is “a song about identity, how it is shaped and transformer, and how only time can reveal who’s genuine and who’s ‘queen of the fakes and imitators.’” RD “On Everything is Free, she delivers the ultimate anthem for creatives everywhere (‘We’re gonna do it anyway / Even if it doesn’t pay’). ‘Everything I ever done / Gonna give it away,’ she declares later, a fitting mission statement for an endlessly generous album whose existence feels like a gift.” PM The album concludes with “the mesmeric 15-minute closer I Dream a Highway,” TM “which drifts lazily through the album’s final moments, sweetly dozing in the current like Huck and Jim's Mississippi River afternoons.” AM It is “an expression of near biblical wanderlust,” RD “an epic of passion lost or spent.” TM It “invokes Lazarus, Gram Parsons, and Emmylou Harris.” RD |
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First posted 8/23/2026. |
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