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1 |
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発売日 |
2017年05月上旬 |
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DC674CD |
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781484067429 |
2016年10月、ボニー・プリンス・ビリー&ビッチン・バハスとして来日し数十年ぶりに日本のファンへ演奏を披露してくれたウィル・オールダム。さて、そんな彼の新作は、昨年亡くなったアメリカのカントリー・シンガー、マール・ハガード(Merle Haggard)への敬意を示すカヴァー・アルバムです。60年代から活躍するマール・ハガードの楽曲の中から選りすぐられた全16曲を収録。ウィル自身も影響を受けたその楽曲はカントリー・ソング特有な陽気さと悲哀さを漂わせながらも、ボニー・プリンス・ビリー然としたウィル節やオーガニック&フォーキーで心地よい演奏の数々が胸に響き、カヴァー・アルバムながらもボニー・プリンス・ビリーの新作としても聴ける秀作です!ボニー・プリンス・ビリー作品に参加しているヴァン・キャンベルやダニー・カイリーなどのメンバーや、元CHAVEZ~ZWANのマット・スウィーニーが参加し、いぶし銀な演奏を聴かせてくれます。
構成数 | 1枚
合計収録時間 | 00:56:02
Personnel: Nuala Kennedy (vocals, flute); Chris "Roadie" Rodahaffer (guitar, banjo); Cheyenne Mize (fiddle); Drew Miller (saxophone); Van Campbell (drums). Audio Mixer: Danny Kiely. Will Oldham is a superior songwriter and vocalist when he wants to be, but there's just enough of a willful persona to his work as Bonnie "Prince" Billy and within the Palace rubric that it's hard to tell when he's being serious and when he's pulling his audience's collective leg, even when his work is good. One of the things that makes Best Troubador something truly special is that, more than nearly all of Oldham's work to date, he's playing straight throughout, and for a good reason. The misspelled but sincere honorific of the title refers to Merle Haggard; according to the liner notes, this album was in the works before Hag's death in April 2016, but when the great man passed, Oldham and his collaborators refashioned it into a tribute album devoted to songs Haggard wrote or sang. Most of the album was recorded and mixed live, with flute and sax added to the arrangements along with the more traditional guitars, fiddles, and banjos, and the overall effect is certainly idiosyncratic, as one might expect from Oldham; this sounds like a slightly buzzed guitar pull as often as it sounds like a fully focused recording session. But if the tone of these performances is laid-back, they're also sincere and committed, and as a vocalist BPB has rarely been better. As a songwriter, Oldham clearly appreciates the craft of Haggard's songwriting, as well as the honest emotional pull of these tunes, and he sings them with a genuine measure of respect and love. And the grainy drawl of Oldham's voice was made to order for these stories of the ups and downs of life and love, and it's all but impossible not to be moved by this craggy sincerity and the genuine soul of this music. There are more deep cuts than familiar hits on Best Troubador, but that's another part of what makes this album so pleasurable; this is a deep dive into Haggard's body of work as seen through the eyes of Bonnie "Prince" Billy, and Oldham and his crew deliver plenty of reminders why Hag was one of the greatest songwriters of his generation. In his liner notes, Oldham writes, "Hag won't make more music, but the music he made is deep and rich and complex and forever yielding." Best Troubador does a splendid job of showing how right he is about Haggard and his songs, and you'd have to go back to 1994's splendid multi-artist disc Tulare Dust to hear as sincere and affecting a tribute to this most American of artists. ~ Mark Deming
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1.The Fugitive
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2.I'm Always On a Mountain When I Fall
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3.The Day the Rains Came
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4.Haggard (Like I've Never Been Before)
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5.I Always Get Lucky With You
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6.Leonard
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7.My Old Pal
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8.Roses In the Winter
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9.Some Of Us Fly
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10.Wouldn't That Be Something
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11.Pray
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12.That's the Way Love Goes
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13.Nobody's Darling
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14.What I Hate (excerpt)
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15.I Am What I Am
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16.If I Could Only Fly
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