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REVIEW: "In a carefully crafted monotone, singer-songwriter Will Gillham's folkish daguerreotypes are rustic portraits of endless cornfields and open prairies; but all is not well in quaint Americana. Behind each pastoral scene there is an air of melancholy if not a downright evil undertaking. Murder ballads ('Rain Rain') and ghost stories (the excellent and intricate 'The Wonderful Four-Faced Man') accompany broken dreams ('The End of the Old Place') and dark introspection ('Rime'). THE BLUE WHEEL also benefits from Gillham's assemblage of first-class musicians...and sonically tight production from Gillham and Kevin Grove.... The album does not suffer the pretense of stalwart unpretentiousness like many a later-era folkie endeavor. No kumbaya's and no group hugs here." --Michael Powell, FORT WORTH WEEKLY WILL GILLHAM'S latest release, CROW: "The great state of Texas produces some of the world's greatest rough-around-the-edges singer/songwriters, including Guy Clark, Townes Van Zandt, Steve Earle, Rodney Crowell, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and Joe Ely. That list just got a little longer with the release of Fort Worth singer/songwriter Will Gillham's new album CROW. A low-fi acoustic recording featuring Gillham's earthy vocals and guitar and a second guitarist, Kevin Grove, providing beautifully nuanced picking, CROW is a quiet, dark, and dusty tour de force." --ASCAP'S Playback Magazine PODCAST INTERVIEW WITH WILL GILLHAM (2/06): www.dfwmusicpodcast.com BLUE WHEEL Album Information: All songs written by Will Gillham and published by Scowling Yogi Records (ASCAP), except "Ring Them Bells" by Bob Dylan. Recorded in Fort Worth and Spicewood, Texas; produced by Gillham and Kevin Grove, engineered by Grove, mixed by Larry Greenhill at Pedernales Studio; mastered by Jerry Tubb at Terra Nova in Austin. Track List: 1. P.V.S. 2. Bowl of Change 3. Running with the Dogs 4. A Cloud-Moving Wind 5. The Wonderful Four-Faced Man 6. Don't 7. The Blue Wheel 8. Denizen Kane 9. The End of the Old Place 10. Longtime 11. Rime 12. Moody Jesus Man 13. Rain Rain 14. Ring Them Bells Suggested CDs:Other Genres:
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