To Drink The Rain

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To Drink the RainOpis:Review As Tom Waits’ voice is to Bing Crosby’s, so Malcolm Holbe’s is to Tom Waits’: this is a wondrous far-travelled, beat-up and leaking old instrument, all sighs and groans, growls, rasps and mutterings (and that’s just in-between the singing).

Listen to a Holbe song and what you’re getting is personality in spades, a narrative so gritty with the noise of tough living that it rarely dips below the red on the authenticity meter. But the thing that makes To Drink the Rain worth listening to, in fact, is its artistry.

The North Carolina native has changed labels and producers as restlessly as he’s moved homes, and this time round his long-serving slide guitar player Jared Taylor has crafted a production of superb balance, buttressing and cushioning the singer’s delivery with a subtlety that belies the single-take recording. The stately upright bass of Johnny Cash’s latter-day sideman Dave Roe, busy brushes of drummer Bobby Kallus, the sweet-toned fiddle of Luke Bulla and Taylor’s graceful picking on the dobro sparkle amongst the rumble and spit like bright stitching.

Holbe’s sentiments are as grizzled as his vocal chords, steeped in the lore of hard times and lonely travelling, but there’s an idiosyncratic poetry bedded in the lyrics: "Way down in the woods touchin' moss so soft / On the deadwood dyin' in time's fertile arms…" The appealing musical range takes in the fingerpicking ragtime of One Leg at a Time (which kicks things off with cheery brio), while the bustle of Where I Don’t Belong has a pelling story-song insistence.

But the title-track is where everything es together: a pounding, measured blues, it finds Holbe channelling Screamin’ Jay Hawkins to irresistible effect, his howls and hollers driving the thumping beat to a gospel-tinged climax that makes the most perfect sense of that ancient curio of a voice. --Ninian DunnettFind more music at the BBC This link will take you off in a new window Product Description "Fron the first note I was drawn in. Malcolm Holbe is an old soul and modern day blues poet. He is a rare find." Lucinda Williams Recording in Music Roads' Cedar Creek Studio, Malcolm is joined by producer Jared Tyler on dobro, acoustic slide and harmony vocals, Luke Bulla on fiddle and harmony vocals, and Bobby Kallus on drums. Guests include Shelby Eicher on mandolin and Andrew Hardin on lead acoustic guitar wtih each contributing to a couple of tracks. Advertising in Country Music People, Maverick and Blues Matters March UK Tour Dates with more to be confirmed 2/3/2011 Bristol Bonaventures 3/3/2011 London The Green Note 6/3/2011 Plymouth The B-Bar 7/3/2011 Brighton The Latest 8/3/2011 Leicester The Musician 9/3/2011 Norwich Norwich Arts Centre 10/3/2011 Farnbe The Farnbe Cavern 11/3/2011 Newcastle Gateshead Central 12/3/2011 Aberdeen Scotland Peacock Visual Arts Centre 15/3/2011 Montrose Scotland Montrose Folk Club 16/3/2011 Belfast N. Ireland Errigle Inn Review "From the first note I was drawn in. Malcolm Holbe is an old soul and modern day blues poet. He is a rare find." -- Lucinda Williams"stripped down Americana at its best.." -- AcousticFour Stars **** -- MojoAutor:Malcolm HolcombeNośnik:Audio CDPłyt:Język: Data wydania: 2011Waga: 0.18 gramWysokość: 0.6 cmSzerokość: 5 cmDługość: 5.6 cmUWAGA: Kupując produkt na tej aukcji zgadzasz się na wydłużony termin realizacji wysyłki (10-14 dni roboczych). Podany towar pochodzi z zagranicznego magazynu, stąd wydłużony czas realizacji który podany jest obok.