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Alternative, Americana, folk, New York.

De laatste regel van deze beschrijving vind ik echt een classic. 

The last individual-artist album produced by Hal Willner, The Songs of Beulah Rowley is a concept album about a Depression-era singer/songwriter who rose to regional fame in the Midwest. Tragically, she died in a house fire while only in her twenties, but her compositions and diaries, stored in a wrought-iron piano bench, survived the blaze.

The project came to Hal's attention in 2009. He said to me then: "I've never seen anything like this." Imagine how that felt, Hal Willner, who'd seen an awful lot, had never seen anything like my story and songs! It took us till 2016 to get it made. He always said to me, "Mary Lee, it doesn't matter when it comes out. It's a timeless album." I hope you agree, once you can get your hands on it!!!

Here's how it all got started:

“I was on the road in the UK, thinking about my next record, wanting it to be different somehow, to incorporate other kinds of writing. What would that mean, I wondered, drifting off to sleep in my favorite London hotel suite (that would be my friend Lizzie's sofa bed). I woke up to find someone named "Beulah Rowley" in my head -- a regionally famous 1930s midwestern singer/songwriter. I wrote a song by her on the spot, finished my tour, came home and wrote her biography. And then a bunch more songs, by her of course.

And remember: Just because I made the whole thing up doesn't mean it isn't true."

Tracks:
01 - Opening Montage
02 - God's Heartbeat
03 - Born A Happy Girl
04 - Fingernail Moon
05 - The Old Piano Bench
06 - Green Sand
07 - Lost & Found 1
08 - How Many Times
09 - Lost & Found 2
10 - A Rain's Gonna Come
11 - Someplace We Can't See
12 - Well By The Water
13 - Big Things
14 - Through A Cloudy Window
15 - The Music Got Me Here
16 - Will Anybody Know That I Was Here
17 - Lost & Found 3
18 - The Young Float Freely By
19 - Good Night
20 - A Greater Good
21 - Will Anybody Know That I Was Here (Rehearsal recording)

Staat er compleet op, 10% pars mee gepost. Met zeer veel dank aan de originele poster. Laat af en toe eens weten wat je van het album vindt. Altijd leuk, de mening van anderen. Oh ja, MP3 doe ik niet aan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry-o6FaYOsU