Fate's Right Hand

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合計収録時間 : 00:50:25
Personnel: Rodney Crowell (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, bouzouki); Will Kimbrough (electric guitar, dobro, accordion); John Jorgenson (electric guitar, mandolin); Steurat Smith (electric guitar, organ); Pat Buchanan, Richard Bennett (electric guitar); Bela Fleck (banjo); Jerry Douglas (dobro); Charlie McCoy (harmonica); John Hobbs, Billy Livsey, Tony Harrell (organ); Paul Leim (bass, djembe, percussion); Michael Rhodes (bass); Trey Landry, Greg Morrow (drums); Gillian Welch, Kim Richey, John Cowan, Barbara Santoro (background vocals). Recorded at Treasure Isle Studios, Berry Hill, Tennessee. Personnel: Rodney Crowell (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, baritone guitar, bouzouki); Marcia Ramirez (vocals, background vocals); Chris Rodriguez (acoustic guitar); John Jorgenson (electric guitar, mandolin, organ); Jerry McPherson, Pat Buchanan, Richard Bennett (electric guitar); Will Kimbrough (dobro, accordion); Jerry Douglas (dobro); Bela Fleck (banjo); Charlie McCoy (harmonica); Billy Livsey (harmonium, organ, keyboard programming); John Hobbs, Steuart Smith, Tony Harrell (organ); Paul Leim (drums, djembe, percussion); Vince Santoro (drums, background vocals); Greg Morrow, Trey Landrey (drums); Randall Waller, Barbara Santoro, Russell Smith, Carl Jackson (background vocals). Audio Mixer: Peter Coleman. Photographer: James Minchin. Fate's Right Hand is one of those albums that couldn't have been written or recorded at any other time in Rodney Crowell's career. Two years after his monumentally acclaimed The Houston Kid, Crowell has laid out his autobiography in sight and sound. His track record of hits -- written for himself as well as for other artists -- could have just gone on untarnished. But Fate's Right Hand is the flip side of The Houston Kid. Whereas the latter album is about the past, the former is about the present, not only in the artist's life, but in the lives of those around him, and in the question of life itself: why is it worth living and how can suffering be alleviated? While many will think this is blasphemy, Fate's Right Hand is the finest record Crowell has issued since Diamonds & Dirt and may turn out to be the finest of his entire career -- and that's saying a lot. Crowell and Pete Coleman produced this outing and enlisted the help of friends old and new: Steuart Smith, Pat Buchanan, Michael Rhodes, Gillian Welch, David Rawlings, Richard Bennett, Bela Fleck, Carl Jackson, Marcia Ramirez, Charlie McCoy, Kim Richey, and Will Kimbrough, to name a few. Crowell wrote the entire record himself; he digs deep for the ugly stuff in order to uncover what shines beneath it. The opener, "Still Learning How to Fly", is a song about living in the moment because the moment is all you have.Crowell claims he wrote it based on conversations he had with a friend dying of terminal cancer; about what comes in the afterlife. With dobros, electric guitars, and acoustic six-strings wrapping around each other in a big, airy mix painted with a Hammond B-3, it is one of Crowell's transcendent moments. Remember Diamonds & Dirt? Yeah -- like that. The title track ushers itself in around some warm, rounded bass tones, an organ, and maracas, as Crowell begins a series of seemingly unrelated non sequiturs. It's a pissed-off song that is as close to punk as Crowell will ever write. The notion of the transcendent is again present as it drenches Fleck's banjo riff in "Earthbound." Crowell makes the argument for living day-to-day in a world full of death and cynicism: where surrender is not an option until its time. All of this points to the most naked song Crowell has ever written: "Time to Go Inward," with both spoken word and sung refrains over fingerpicked acoustic guitars and electric dobros. It's a folk song about seeing; a country song about acceptance; a human song about the fear of what you might find when you look so deeply inside yourself. "The Man in Me" is about the negativity found there. It's a co to be continued...
録音 : ステレオ (Studio)