Balm In Gilead (2009)

Product Summary Label: FANTASY RECORDS/CONCORD JAZZ UPC: 00888072317604 Release Date: 11/3/2009 Buy.com Sku: 212506210 Item#: M4S6NV Buy.com Sales Rank: 26050 Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Wild Girl ~ Rickie Lee Jones 2. Old Enough - (featuring Ben Harper) ~ Rickie Lee Jones 3. Remember Me - (featuring Alison Krauss/Vic Chesnutt) ~ Rickie Lee Jones 4. Moon is Made of Gold, The ~ Rickie Lee Jones 5. His Jeweled Floor - (featuring Victoria Williams) ~ Rickie Lee Jones 6. Eucalyptus Trail ~ Rickie Lee Jones 7. Blue Ghazel, The ~ Rickie Lee Jones 8. Gospel of Carlos, Norman and Smith, The - (featuring Chris Joyner) ~ Rickie Lee Jones 9. Bonfires ~ Rickie Lee Jones 10. Bayless St. ~ Rickie Lee Jones   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info Lyricist: Rickie Lee Jones. Audio Mixer: Rob Schnapf. Photographer: Rickie Lee Jones. Captain Beefheart was known to playfully admonish fans shouting out requests at his shows by saying, "You know I'm gonna do exactly what I want." No one has documented Rickie Lee Jones saying the same thing, but in the course of a recording career that's just entered its third decade, she's made it clear that she shares the same philosophy, and she's bravely followed her muse wherever it chooses to go, rather than rehashing the sound and style of RICCKIE LEE JONES and PIRATES, the acclaimed early recordings which made her a star. Jones certainly hasn't lost her love for the blues and jazz flavors that dominated her best-known work, but on 2009's BALM IN GILEAD, there's significantly less flash and swagger in her music; instead, these performances speak of an intimacy and warmth that befits the lyrics, which concern themselves with love, family, friendship, and the stuff that makes up everyday lives. Jones duets with Vic Chesnutt on two numbers, the country-influenced weeper "Remember Me" and a spectral gospel variant, "His Jeweled Floor" (which also features Victoria Williams), and these two gloriously idiosyncratic talents bring out the best in one another, discovering a compelling mystery in their rural inflections that's an ideal match for the material. Ben Harper also lends his talents to this album, and his duet with Jones, "Old Enough," is a blues-infused tale of a busted romance that has a bit of the sass of "Chuck E.'s in Love," but half a lifetime's added depth and subtle detail. Jones opens the set with "Wild Girl," a song written for her daughter, and it's one of the most heartfelt and simply effecting moments on this album, along with "The Moon Is Made of Gold," a sweetly swinging lullaby that was written by her father when she was just a girl. And if songs like "Bonfires," "Eucalyptus Trail," "The Gospel of Carlos, Norman and Smith," and "Bayless St." don't lend themselves to simple categorization, they're all quietly beautiful and filled with a gentle passion that never sounds anything less than fearlessly honest. Producer: David Kalish; Rickie Lee Jones; Sheldon Gomberg Engineer: Chris Testa; Jason Wormer; David Kalish; John Keane; Mike Poole; Sheldon Gomberg; Jesse Honig; Jeff Halbert Musical Guests Ben Harper Alison Krauss Vic Chesnutt Victoria Williams Chris Joyner   Compilation Appearances Bells Of Dublin Sleepless In Seattle Casey Kasem Presents: America's Top 10 Through The Years: 70s Outlaws And Angels Lullabies From The Axis Of Evil Scarecrow Friends With Money Top Hits Of The Seventies:amazing Hit Village   Associated Artists and Works Friends With Money ~ Original Soundtrack   Technical Info Release Date : 11/03/2009 Original Release Date : 2009 Catalog ID : 31760 Label : Fantasy (distributor) Number of Discs : 1 Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00888072317604    Related Videos In Search of Solid Ground... Draw The Line: David Gray