Going Driftless - An Artist's Tribute to Greg Brown [2002] [EAC/ torrent

FLAC / Lossless / Log (100%) / Cue
Label/Cat#: Red House
Country: USA
Year: September 10, 2002
Format:CD
Genre: americana,country,folk

1. Lately - Lucinda Williams
2. The Poet Game - Ani DiFranco
3. The Train Carrying Jimmie Rodgers Home - Iris Dement
4. Where is Maria - Ferron
5. Sleeper - Eliza Gilkyson
6. Ella Mae - Pieta, Zoe and Constie Brown
7. Summer Evening - Gillian Welch
8. Small Dark Movie - Lucy Kaplansky
9. Spring & All - Mary Chapin Carpenter
10. Say a Little Prayer - Shawn Colvin
11. Early - Victoria Williams
12. Two Little Feet - Karen Savoca
13. Hey Baby Hey - Robin Lee Berry
14. Wash My Eyes - Leandra Peak

Twenty years prior to the release of Going Driftless, Greg Brown sang about being a dad. "I'm a man who's rich in daughters," he boasted, tenderly. It's appropriate, then, that the most affecting song on this tribute album is a hushed, heartfelt reading of Brown's early rarity "Ella Mae," played and sung here by his three girls, Pieta, Zoe, and Constie. And while theirs is the disc's single best performance, there's much more here to recommend. Lucinda Williams (who opens the album with "Lately") and Iris DeMent ("The Train Carrying Jimmie Rodgers Home") are, like Brown, raw, emotive singers steeped in the blues, and their covers ooze with longing and ache. Ani DiFranco's jazzy "Poet Game" and Victoria Williams's playful "Early" offer new perspectives on familiar Brown songs. And while the likes of Eliza Gilkyson ("Sleeper") and Shawn Colvin ("Say a Little Prayer") come off a little too polished, each earns points for reviving terrific tunes from deep in Brown's catalog. One note: Royalties from this album go to the Breast Cancer Fund