Third Down, 110 To Go

構成数 : 1枚
合計収録時間 : 00:00:00
Personnel: Jesse Winchester (vocals, guitar, piano); Amos Garrett (vocals, guitar); Andre Benichou, Doug Schmolze (guitar); Charles Viber (violin); Gord Pleming (piano); Bob Boucher, Jimmy Oliver (bass); N.D. Smart, Ron Frankel (drums); Sam Kelly (conga, bongos); Don Abrams (percussion). Recorded at Les Studios Andre Perry, Montreal, Quebec, Canada and Eastern Sound, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. If Jesse Winchester's debut album was an auspicious introduction to a powerful new songwriting talent, his two-and-a-half-years-in-the-making follow-up was in some ways even more impressive. Without the influence of Robbie Robertson, Winchester, who produced most of the album himself (three tracks were handled by Todd Rundgren), gave it a homemade feel, using small collections of acoustic instruments, an appropriate setting for a group of short, intimate songs that expressed a deliberately positive worldview set against an acknowledgement of desperate times. Winchester found hope in religion and domesticity, but the key to his stance was a kind of good-humored accommodation. "If the wheel is fixed," he sang, "I would still take a chance. If we're skating on thin ice, then we might as well dance." The album was littered with such examples of aphoristic folk wisdom, adding up to a portrait of a man, cut off from his very deep roots and yet determined to maintain his dignity with grace and even occasionally a goofy sense of humor. ~ William Ruhlmann
録音 : ステレオ (Studio)