Vic Chesnutt - Ghetto Bells (Vinyl 2LP - 2017 - US - Reissue)
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Description
Ghetto Bells matches the poetic power of Vic Chesnutt’s words with some of the most elegantly simpatico backing he's ever been blessed with, including jazz icon Bill Frisell on guitars, legendary writer, arranger and multi-instrumentalist Van Dyke Parks on piano, accordion and organ, Don Heffington of Lone Justice and the Jayhawks on drums and percussion, classically trained session-man Dominic Genova on double bass, Tina Chesnutt on electric bass and Liz Durrett on exquisite backing vocals. At the time, Vic Chesnutt had released a dozen albums in 15 years. Ghetto Bells has a powerful resonance that reveals itself slowly. A pair of seven-minute pieces are the heart of the album, both moving forward slowly, but ever so purposefully. One of them, "Rambunctious Cloud," is further sweetened by the presence of Van Dyke Parks on accordion and a staggering guitar solo from Bill Frisell. It's a mark of Chesnutt's singular songwriting prowess that such a stellar band of disparate players came together, full of sympathetic invention, confidence and grace.
"These songs are ultimately and admirably patient and fluid, building not to grandiloquent climaxes but to a greater and greater complexity of meaning" - Pitchfork
“The songs are all-encompassing. They sweep you up. They really get to you.” - Washington Post
Trackliste
A1 Virginia
A2 Little Caesar
A3 What Do You Mean?
A4 Got To Me
B1 Ignorant People
B2 Forthright
B3 To Be With You
C1 Vesuvius
C2 Rambunctious Cloud
C3 The Garden
C4 Gnats
D1 Vesuvius (Demo)
D2 Forthright (Demo)
D3 Prevails (Demo)
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