Matraca Berg — The Dreaming Fields (2011)
Понедельник, 17 Июн 2013
Artist: Matraca Berg
Title Of Album: The Dreaming Fields
Year Of Release: 2011
Label: Dualtone Music Group
Genre: Folk, Singer-Songwriter
Format: mp3
Quality: 320 Kbps
Total Time: 47:47
Total Size: 113.92 Mb
Artist: Matraca Berg
Title Of Album: The Dreaming Fields
Year Of Release: 2011
Label: Dualtone Music Group
Genre: Folk, Singer-Songwriter
Format: mp3
Quality: 320 Kbps
Total Time: 47:47
Total Size: 113.92 Mb
Tracklist:
1. If I Had Wings
2. You And Tequila
3. Racing The Angels
4. Silver And Glass
5. Clouds
6. The Dreaming Fields
7. Oh Cumberland
8. Your Husband’s Cheating On Us
9. Fall Again
10. South Of Heaven
11. A Cold, Rainy Morning In London In June
Most people know Matraca Berg as an accomplished songwriter
who’s penned hits for Dusty Springfield, Linda Ronstadt, the
Dixie Chicks, Patty Loveless, Deanna Carter, Trisha Yearwood,
Gretchen Wilson, and more. Fewer know her as an unclassifiable but
utterly classy singer/songwriter and recording artist who issued a
handful of of excellent but unclassifiable albums between 1990 and
1997 on RCA and Rising Tide. The Dreaming Fields, issued on the
reputable established indie Dualtone, is Berg’s first record
in 14 years. She wrote or co-wrote everything here. It showcases
all of her strengths — as a songwriter and as a vocalist. It
was self-produced and recorded with a small group of friends, who
understand the plaintive power in Berg’s voice; they
empathetically underscore her lyrics with only what is necessary.
It’s so refreshing to hear guitars — acoustic, electric
and pedal steel –and drums sound like nothing but themselves.
The sound here is somewhat reminiscent of Emmylou Harris’
Pieces of the Sky in its sonic footprint; its songs are poetry with
light and shadow in equal but uneasy balance. Check the lonesome
shuffle in “If I Had Wings,” with its lilting country
gospel undertones and the depth of loneliness in the grain of
Berg’s voice. The heartbreak in the acoustically framed
“You and Tequila” is the Nashville equivalent of Don
Henley’s, Bernie Leadon’s, and Glenn Frey’s
finest early moments (the comparison is made more poignant because
Berg is writing about Hollywood). She evokes total surrender to the
thing which is greater than we are: poison love, but her
protagonist will survive because she can walk away. The sultry
minor-key blues of “Your Husband’s Cheating on
Us” is a unique perspective on infidelity from the
“other woman”‘s point of view. The title track is
a piano and cello-driven ballad that suggests a modern paean akin
to Stephen Foster’s “Hard Times Come Again No
More.” (That’s as high a compliment as anyone can pay a
21st century song.) “Fall Again” is a searing, naked
love song made all the more powerful because its protagonist is
singing to an absent beloved. The late Lowell George would have
been proud to sing and play on “Oh Cumberland.”
“South of Heaven” is the finest antiwar song to come
from the Afghanistan/Iraq War era because it refuses to preach.
Ultimately, The Dreaming Fields is a deeply moving, gloriously
articulated album that should not only reawaken the interest of
fans, but should win Berg a multitude of new ones.
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