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Down the Old Plank Road: The Nashville
Sessions
The
Chieftains
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Product Details
Audio CD (September 17, 2002)
Original Release Date: September 17, 2002
Number of Discs: 1
Label: RCA Victor
The Chieftains...BLUE GRASS?
Yep, shure 'nough is, y'all.
Well, sorta...
When people hear "Chieftains" they're thinking Irish, Gaelic. but
BLUE GRASS? Actually it's not a stretch at all considering that Irish folk
music played a major role in the creation of American folk music, Blue Grass
(Tennessee, Kentucky)--and via Blue Grass to Country & Western. Of course
other ethnic flavors are involved including Scottish & colonial British,
French, Spanish & African (Gospel, Blues, Jazz.)
To offer a comparison, the soundtrack of "O, Brother, Where Art
Thou?" gives a pretty good sampler of Blue Grass, & this CD does the
same--but with more songs, more A-List US artists (John Hiatt, Bela Fleck, Earl
Scruggs, Vince Gill, Alison Krauss, Lyle Lovetti, Paty Griffin & other
greats) resulting in this more artistically cohesive CD.
So where are the Chieftains you might ask? Well, it's true they are more in the
studio background than the forefront, but once you realize how effective that
the background is, you can enjoy the final result.
The CD features the original musical treatment of such standards as Don't Let
Your Deal Go Down, Whole Heaps of Little Horses, Tennessee Stud, and Katie Dear
[A variant of Silver Dagger]
Long
Black Veil
Water
From the Well
Tears
Of Stone
Northern
Journey
Four
Strong Winds
Early
Morning Rain
O
Brother, Where Art Thou?
Review: JEFarrow
Updated 11/07