Time (The Revelator)

Infobox Album | Name = Time (The Revelator)
Type = Album
Artist = Gillian Welch


Released = July 31 2001 (US)
Recorded =
Genre = alternative country singer-songwriter
Length = 51:34
Label = Acony
Producer = David Rawlings
Reviews =
* "Allmusic" Rating|4|5 Zac Johnson, [http://wm01.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:3zcyxdjb3ola "Review: "Time (The Revelator)"] , "Allmusic"]
*"The A.V. Club" (favorable) Stephen Thompson, [http://www.avclub.com/content/node/12823 "Music: Gillian Welch - "Time (The Revelator)"] , "The Onion (A.V. Club)", April 19, 2002]
*Review-Christgau|hm1|artist=517 Robert Christgau [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=517&name=Gillian+Welch CG: Gillian Welch] , "Consumer Guide"]
*"CDNow" (favorable) [Review] , "CDNow", ( [http://www.cdnow.com/cgi-bin/mserver/pagename=/RP/CDN/FIND/album.html/artistid=Welch*Gillian/itemid=1400089/select=review/pubid=7 link] ?) ("Sometimes beautiful, sometimes disquieting, Time (The Revelator) is something short of revelatory, but it's entrancing nonetheless.")]
* "CMJ" (favorable)Orlov, Piotr, [http://prod1.cmj.com/articles/display_article.php?id=31466 "Review: Gillian Welch: "Time (The Revelator"] , "CMJ", August 8, 2001] [http://prod1.cmj.com/articles/display_article.php?id=31466 link]
*"Entertainment Weekly" (A-) Chris Williams, [http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,170021~4~~time(revelator),00.html "Review: "Time (the Revelator) (2001)"] , August 6, 2001]
* "Fresh Air" (unfavorable) Ken Tucker, [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1127373 Review] , "Fresh Air", National Public Radio, August 14, 2001]
*George Graham (favorable) George Graham, [http://georgegraham.com/reviews/welch3.html "George Graham Reviews Gillian Welch's "Time (The Revelator)"] , "The Graham Weekly Album Review", 1251, 2001]
*"Jam!" Jane Stevenson, [http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Artists/W/Welch_Gillian/AlbumReviews/2001/08/12/772152.html "Album Review: Gillian Welch - "Time (The Revelator)"] , "Jam!"]
* "Jelly" Glenn Brooks, [http://www.jellyroll.com/2002/welch.html "Gillian Welch - "Time (The Revelator)": Down to basics"] , "Jelly", July 21, 2002]
*"Launch.com" (favorable) Rob O'Connor, "Time (The Revelator)", Launch.com, August 2, 2001 ( [http://www.launch.com/music/content/1,5850,204300,00.html original link] -dead, [http://web.archive.org/web/20070912205627/http://launch.yahoo.com/read/content.asp?contentID=204300 link] to internet archive)]
*"Magnet" (favorable) [Review] , "Magnet", 52, p.111 ("Welch and longtime partner David Rawlings weave a spellbinding mix of desperation and salvation across this album's 10 tracks.")]
*"Mojo" (favorable) [Review] , "Mojo", p.102, November 2001 ("This is a profoundly good record")]
*"Neumu" (8/10) Mary Eisenhart, [http://www.neumu.net/fortyfour/2001/2001-00234/2001-00234_fortyfour.shtml Review: Gillian Welch - "Time (The Revelator)"] , Neumu.net]
*"The New Yorker" (favorable) Ben Greenman, [http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2001/08/13/010813gore_GOAT_recordings "Pop Notes: In search of Lost Time" (reviews)] , "The New Yorker", August 13, 2001]
* "Pitchfork Media" (8.1/10) Brad Haywood, [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/23123-time-the-revelator "Record Reviews: Gillian Welch - "Time (The Revelator)"] , "Pitchfork Media", January 29, 2002]
*"Q Magazine" (favorable) [Review] , "Q Magazine", p.130, November 2001 ("It's gloriously dark and downbeat stuff.")]
*"Rolling Stone" Rating|3.5|5 Robert Santelli, [http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/165327/review/5942709?utm_source=Rhapsody&utm_medium=CDreview "Review: "Time (The Revelator)"] , "Rolling Stone", 875, August 16, 2001 (note: the album appears to have been later upgraded to "four out of five stars" in the 2004 "Rolling Stone Album Guide".)]
*"Sonicnet" (favorable) [Review] , Sonicnet.com ( [http://www.sonicnet.com/artists/ai_album.jhtml?id=1445929&ai_id=400185 original link] -no longer functioning) ("Welch has become a notable talent on that long, rootsy highway, and she and Rawlings have fashioned their own unique sound.")]
*"Spin" (mixed) [Review] , "Spin", p.131, October 2001 ("Unlike her major-label LPs, this is a stringently stripped-down, dark-side-of-the-mountain album that's near impossible to cozy up with.")]
*"Virgin" Rating|3|5 "Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music", UK ( [http://www.acclaimedmusic.net/Current/A1219.htm according to acclaimedmusic.net] )] | Last album = 2nd
"Hell Among the Yearlings"
(1998)
This album = 3rd
"Time (The Revelator)"
(2001)
Next album = 4th
"Soul Journey"
(2003) |

"Time (The Revelator)" is the third full length album by Gillian Welch. All songs were written by Welch together with David Rawlings and were recorded in Nashville, TennesseeProduction notes within the booklet accompanying the album.] . "I Want To Sing That Rock and Roll" was recorded live at the Ryman Auditorium as part of the sessions for the concert film, "Down from the Mountain", all the rest of the tracks were recorded at RCA Studio B, Nashville, Tennessee.

Track listing

All songs written by Welch-Rawlings
# "Revelator" – 6:22
# "My First Lover" – 3:47
# "Dear Someone" – 3:14
# "Red Clay Halo" – 3:14
# "April the 14th Part I" – 5:10
# "I Want To Sing That Rock and Roll" – 2:51
# "Elvis Presley Blues" – 4:53
# "Ruination Day Part II" – 2:36
# "Everything Is Free" – 4:48
# "I Dream a Highway" – 14:39

Credits

Musicians

* Gillian Welch - banjo, guitar & vocals
* David Rawlings - guitar & vocals

Production

*Recorded at RCA Studio B, Nashville, Tennessee
*Produced by David Rawlings
*Engineered by [http://www.mattandrews.com/ Matt Andrews]
* except "I Want to Sing That Rock and Roll":
**Recorded live at the Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, Tennessee
**Produced by T-Bone Burnett
**Engineered by Mike Piersante & Matt Andrews
**Also available on "Down from the Mountain" (2001, Lost Highway)
*Mastered by Steve Marcussen at [http://www.marcussenmastering.com/ Marcussen Mastering] , Los Angeles, California

Artwork

*Design by [http://www.frankolinsky.com/ Frank Olinsky]
*Photography by Mark Seliger

Charts

Accolades

Welch and Rawlings received a great deal of recognition for their work on "Time". The album received many award nominations and was included on many "best album of the year" lists by critics. It has since been included on a number of "best of all time" list.

During a period in his life in which he was living with a friend in New York City, folkie Devendra Banhart had access to only this record, which he now proudly regards as "one of his favorites of all time."

Awards

Although the Welch and Rawlings did not win in any category, the duo received four nominations at the first annual awards for the Americana Music Association in 2002.Andrew Dansby, [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/gillianwelch/articles/story/5933943/welch_leads_americana_nominees "Welch Leads Americana Nominees"] , Rolling Stone.com, August 5, 2002] "Time (The Revelator)" was nominated for Album of the Year, and "I Want to Sing That Rock & Roll" was nominated for Song of the Year (prizes that went to Buddy and Julie Miller's "Buddy & Julie Miller" and "She's Looking at Me" by Jim Lauderdale, Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys). Welch and Rawlings together were nominated for Artist of the Year while Rawlings was nominated for Instrumentalist of the Year (awarded to Jim Lauderdale and Jerry Douglas respectively).

The album was also nominated for Best Contemporary Folk Album at the 2002 Grammy Awards, but lost out to Bob Dylan's "Love and Theft". [ [http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2002/grammys/print.ballot2.html "2002 Grammy Awards"] , CNN.com]

Best album of the year lists

External links

* Melissa Block, [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1127238 "Gillian Welch and David Rawlings" (live in-studio interview)] , "All Things Considered", NPR, August 10, 2001
* Nick spitzer, "Words and Music", "American Routes", PRI, January 9, 2002 ( [http://www.amroutes.com/interview.html# episode playlist] , [http://www.amroutes.com/ram/AR_0202GWelch.ram audio segment with Gillian Welch] {requires real player})

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