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Priscilla Herdman gave birth to a daughter in 1985, and Darkness into Light, her fourth album, definitely bears the influence of her experience of motherhood. As usual, her role as a songwriter is limited: she adds some lines to Bruce "Utah" Phillips' "I Remember Loving You," which he performs as a duet with her, and sets Sojourner Truth's 1851 "Ain't I a Woman" speech to music. But the material she has chosen to record continually refers to mothers and children, even as she hews to the same sorts of works that have attracted her in the past. For example, she devoted much of her first album, The Water Lily (1977), to musical treatments of poems by the Australian poet Henry Lawson (1867-1922), and she adds one more here, "When the Children Come Home." It isn't actually about children; it's about an old ranch woman who has been widowed and abandoned by her children, but who still expects them back. Similarly, Judy Small (another name familiar to those who have Herdman's earlier albums) contributes an Australian story, "From the Lambing to the Wool," the autobiographical account of another old ranch woman whose children have grown and left, but who doesn't seem quite as badly off as Lawson's. Lorraine Lee's "Rockin' in a Weary Land" is also about a mother and child, though in this case it's Mother Earth and her human children who pollute instead of following environmental precepts. This political focus will also be familiar to Herdman's fans, who will respond to the feminism of "Ain't I a Woman" and the album-closing pleas for peace and understanding, Small and Pat Humphries' "Walls and Windows" and Paul Metsers' "Peace Must Come." In typically strong voice, Herdman continues to distinguish herself from old comparisons to Judy Collins and even throws in her own version of Billy Edd Wheeler's "The Coming of the Roads," a song Collins recorded more than 20 years earlier, to demonstrate the difference. Playing acoustic guitar, she is joined by backup musicians who have accompanied her throughout her career, among them co-producer Abby Newton on cello and Jay Ungar on fiddle, and her harmonies with Anne Hills and Cindy Mangsen on James Taylor's "Lonesome Road" (aka "That Lonesome Road"), "Ain't I a Woman," and "Peace Must Come" have a distinctive flavor that anticipates their formal grouping as a trio. The album, meanwhile, looks forward to Herdman's next collection, 1988's Stardreamer, which, not surprisingly, is a straight-out children's disc.
© William Ruhlmann /TiVo
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Jay Ungar, Fiddle, AssociatedPerformer - Bill Staines, ComposerLyricist - Roger Seibel, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Abby Newton, Producer, Cello, Recording Producer, AssociatedPerformer - Scott Petito, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Priscilla Herdman, Producer, Guitar, Executive Producer, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1987 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Jay Ungar, Fiddle, AssociatedPerformer - Traditional Arrangement, ComposerLyricist - Roger Seibel, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - MOLLY MASON, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Abby Newton, Producer, Recording Producer - Mark Rust, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Henry Lawson, ComposerLyricist - Scott Petito, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Priscilla Herdman, Producer, Executive Producer, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1987 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Roger Seibel, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Abby Newton, Producer, Cello, Recording Producer, AssociatedPerformer - Artie Traum, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Scott Petito, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Priscilla Herdman, Producer, Executive Producer, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - David Hornung, Accordion, AssociatedPerformer - Kathryn Tait, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1987 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Bruce Phillips, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Roger Seibel, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - MOLLY MASON, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Abby Newton, Producer, Recording Producer - Mark Rust, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Scott Petito, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Priscilla Herdman, Producer, Executive Producer, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1987 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
JAMES TAYLOR, ComposerLyricist - Roger Seibel, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Abby Newton, Producer, Recording Producer - Artie Traum, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Scott Petito, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Anne Hills, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Priscilla Herdman, Producer, Executive Producer, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Cindy Mangsen, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1987 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
BILLY EDD WHEELER, ComposerLyricist - Roger Seibel, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Abby Newton, Producer, Cello, Recording Producer, AssociatedPerformer - Artie Traum, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Scott Petito, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Priscilla Herdman, Producer, Guitar, Executive Producer, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1987 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Roger Seibel, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Abby Newton, Producer, Cello, Recording Producer, AssociatedPerformer - Artie Traum, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Connie Kaldor, ComposerLyricist - Scott Petito, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Priscilla Herdman, Producer, Executive Producer, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1987 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Jay Ungar, Fiddle, AssociatedPerformer - Roger Seibel, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - MOLLY MASON, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Abby Newton, Producer, Recording Producer - Mark Rust, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Scott Petito, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Anne Hills, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Priscilla Herdman, Producer, Guitar, Executive Producer, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Lorraine Lee, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1987 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Roger Seibel, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Abby Newton, Producer, Recording Producer - Mark Rust, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Judy Small, ComposerLyricist - Scott Petito, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Priscilla Herdman, Producer, Guitar, Executive Producer, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1987 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Roger Seibel, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Abby Newton, Producer, Recording Producer - Scott Petito, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Anne Hills, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Priscilla Herdman, Producer, Executive Producer, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Cindy Mangsen, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Sojourner Truth, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1987 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Harry Belafonte, ComposerLyricist - Traditional Arrangement, ComposerLyricist - Malvina Reynolds, ComposerLyricist - Roger Seibel, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Alan Greene, ComposerLyricist - Abby Newton, Producer, Cello, Recording Producer, AssociatedPerformer - Scott Petito, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Priscilla Herdman, Producer, Guitar, Executive Producer, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Seosamh McCathmaoil, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1987 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Jay Ungar, Fiddle, AssociatedPerformer - Roger Seibel, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Abby Newton, Producer, Cello, Recording Producer, AssociatedPerformer - Judy Small, ComposerLyricist - Scott Petito, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Pat Humphries, ComposerLyricist - Priscilla Herdman, Producer, Guitar, Executive Producer, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1987 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Roger Seibel, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - MOLLY MASON, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Abby Newton, Producer, Recording Producer - Mark Rust, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Scott Petito, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Anne Hills, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Priscilla Herdman, Producer, Guitar, Executive Producer, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Cindy Mangsen, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Paul Metsers, ComposerLyricist - David Hornung, Accordion, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1987 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Chronique
Priscilla Herdman gave birth to a daughter in 1985, and Darkness into Light, her fourth album, definitely bears the influence of her experience of motherhood. As usual, her role as a songwriter is limited: she adds some lines to Bruce "Utah" Phillips' "I Remember Loving You," which he performs as a duet with her, and sets Sojourner Truth's 1851 "Ain't I a Woman" speech to music. But the material she has chosen to record continually refers to mothers and children, even as she hews to the same sorts of works that have attracted her in the past. For example, she devoted much of her first album, The Water Lily (1977), to musical treatments of poems by the Australian poet Henry Lawson (1867-1922), and she adds one more here, "When the Children Come Home." It isn't actually about children; it's about an old ranch woman who has been widowed and abandoned by her children, but who still expects them back. Similarly, Judy Small (another name familiar to those who have Herdman's earlier albums) contributes an Australian story, "From the Lambing to the Wool," the autobiographical account of another old ranch woman whose children have grown and left, but who doesn't seem quite as badly off as Lawson's. Lorraine Lee's "Rockin' in a Weary Land" is also about a mother and child, though in this case it's Mother Earth and her human children who pollute instead of following environmental precepts. This political focus will also be familiar to Herdman's fans, who will respond to the feminism of "Ain't I a Woman" and the album-closing pleas for peace and understanding, Small and Pat Humphries' "Walls and Windows" and Paul Metsers' "Peace Must Come." In typically strong voice, Herdman continues to distinguish herself from old comparisons to Judy Collins and even throws in her own version of Billy Edd Wheeler's "The Coming of the Roads," a song Collins recorded more than 20 years earlier, to demonstrate the difference. Playing acoustic guitar, she is joined by backup musicians who have accompanied her throughout her career, among them co-producer Abby Newton on cello and Jay Ungar on fiddle, and her harmonies with Anne Hills and Cindy Mangsen on James Taylor's "Lonesome Road" (aka "That Lonesome Road"), "Ain't I a Woman," and "Peace Must Come" have a distinctive flavor that anticipates their formal grouping as a trio. The album, meanwhile, looks forward to Herdman's next collection, 1988's Stardreamer, which, not surprisingly, is a straight-out children's disc.
© William Ruhlmann /TiVo
À propos
- 1 disque(s) - 13 piste(s)
- Durée totale : 00:43:37
- Artistes principaux : Priscilla Herdman
- Compositeur : Various Composers
- Label : Flying Fish
- Genre : Blues/Country/Folk Folk
© 1987 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc. ℗ 1987 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
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