Soul Journey

Infobox Album
Name = Soul Journey
Type = studio
Artist = Gillian Welch


Released = June 3 2003 (US)
Recorded = ?
Genre = Country music, bluegrass music
Length = 39:07
Label = Acony
Producer = David Rawlings
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:2ft67u5030jh link]
*"Blender" Rating|3|5 [http://www.blender.com/guide/reviews.aspx?id=1878 link]
*Jam! (mixed) [http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Artists/W/Welch_Gillian/AlbumReviews/2003/07/11/772151.html link]
*Pitchfork (7.1/10) [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/23126/Gillian_Welch_Soul_Journey 10/8/03]
*"Rolling Stone" Rating|2|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/290791/soul_journey 6/12/03]
*"Stylus" (B+) [http://stylusmagazine.com/reviews/gillian-welch/soul-journey.htm 9/1/03]
Last album = "Time (The Revelator)"
(2001)
This album = "Soul Journey"
(2003)
Next album =

"Soul Journey" is the fourth studio album by Gillian Welch. As with all of her previous releases it is very much a collaboration with her partner, David Rawlings.

In their preceding work, "Time (The Revelator)", Welch and Rawlings had experimented with using only acoustic guitar and banjo as accompaniment. With "Soul Journey", they return to the more diverse and modern instrumentation of their early work, employing electric guitar, organ, and drums. As with Welch's other works, a strong American roots influence can be heard. This is perhaps most clear on the track, "No One Knows My Name", which borrows the melody from the Carter Family classic, "Motherless Children" and in Welch's reading of the traditional, "Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor".

Track listing

# "Look at Miss Ohio" (Gillian Welch, David Rawlings) – 4:16
# "Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor" (traditional with additional lyrics by Welch) – 2:45
# "Wayside/Back in Time" (Welch, Rawlings) – 3:28
# "I Had a Real Good Mother and Father" (traditional with additional lyrics by Welch) – 3:14
# "One Monkey" (Welch, Rawlings) – 5:36
# "No One Knows My Name" (Welch, Rawlings, traditional melody) – 3:16
# "Lowlands" (Welch, Rawlings) – 3:19
# "One Little Song" (Welch) – 3:12
# "I Made a Lovers Prayer" (Welch, Rawlings) – 5:03
# "Wrecking Ball" (Welch, Rawlings) – 4:56

Charts

External links

* [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1417968 Review of "Look at Miss Ohio"] by David Dye for NPR's Day to Day.
* [http://www.pbs.org/klru/austin/interviews/gwelch_interview.html Gillian Welch Interview] for "Austin City Limits"

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