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This is the most consistent and accessible disc of Chris Whitley's off-and-on recording career. The album is just Whitley singing and accompanying himself on banjo, guitar and foot stomp. It has a simple and wonderfully stripped-down sound that fits perfectly with the morose yet tumultuous mood of the songs, establishing a strong atmosphere that is almost as important to the work as the mood in a '40s film noir. This is an exceedingly short work, only 27+ minutes, yet it really shouldn't be much longer. If you were expecting Big Sky Country in sound, you will be both happy and disappointed: happy because there is the same stripped-down, nasal singing and story-songs, and disappointed because there is not as much dobro, nor a band helping him flesh out the tunes. He does an excellent job on the small amount of material here, yet it does not develop into anything due to the lack of time; at the same time, the tone is so very angst-ridden that the short length may work in its favor. There are no liner notes or comments for this disc. What is here is excellent in its own right and stands up as some of his best work; I just wonder if maybe another song or two might have made it a stronger work. ~ Bob Gottlieb
Recording information: Blue Moon Racing Shop, Vermont (12/04/1997).
Photographer: Chris Nofziger.
Personnel: Chris Whitley (vocals, guitar, banjo, foot stomp).
Personnel: Chris Whitley (vocals, banjo).
Entertainment Weekly (4/3/98, p.96) - "...Infused with a craggy grace and intensity, DIRT FLOOR has the honesty and power to withstand comparisons to the music of Whitley's obvious influences--Son House and Robert Johnson."
- Rating: A-
Q (12/99, p.132) - 4 Stars (out of 5) - "...Whitley's...debut...introduced his dry gulch voice and spectacular ability with the clanking National six-string to much acclaim....DIRT FLOOR sees Whitley returning to first principles and to form..." Dirt Floor Music | List Price | $15.97 (You save $3.08) | | Category | Rock Albums, Country CDs, Rock/Pop | | Label | Messenger | | Orig Year | 1998 | | All Time Sales Rank |  11895  | | CD Universe Part number | 1207836 | | Catalog number | 4 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Mar 17, 1998 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Producer | Craig Street | | Engineer | Danny Kadar | | Personnel | Chris Whitley - vocals, guitar, banjo, foot stomp
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Chris Whitley Dirt Floor Songs Dirt Floor Music Review Average Rating: (5 out of 5 stars)  soul
Great, great album! Chris here is absolutely at his best and shows he needs only himself.
his guitar and voice reach you anyway, so the only thing you can do is lapse into these waves and let them rock.
Submitted by Daniele (Italy)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No Actually, it's his 4th album
there was:
1. Debut: Livin' with the Law
2. Din of Ecstacy
3. Terra Incognito
4. Dirt Floor
And he will never be forgotten!
Submitted by PJR (New York, USA)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No it ain´t his debut...
this is his third album! an it 'rocks' your soul!
Submitted by cururo (Göttingen, Germany)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No soul food
This being his debut, Chris has the world ahead waiting for him. His music is so touching in that it strikes a gutteral chord in all of us. It just goes to show that all you need is a guitar, vioce and a soul..and he got all three. Keep rockin Chris..
Submitted by shazam65 (Long Island, NY, USA)
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Purchase Dirt Floor CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Lyle Lovett Step Inside This House CDs (1998)
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STEP INSIDE THIS HOUSE was nominated for a 1999 Grammy for Best Contemporary Folk Album.
In a move similar to Nanci Griffith's OTHER VOICES recordings, Lovett assembled two discs worth of songs by his favorite Texas country/folk songwriters, putting his own personal spin on the tunes that make up STEP INSIDE THIS HOUSE. While Lovett developed into a peer of Guy Clark, Vince Bell and the other songwriters he covers here, 'twas not always thus. The young Lovett grew up worshipping at the altar of these great composers, and it's that reverence that gives the album an aura of humility and respect.
Lovett's not afraid to rearrange some of these songs to suit his sound, but mostly he's concerned with getting to the heart of these tunes, so little here is radically ...
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Ultradiscs are mastered from the original master tapes using Mobile Fidelity's proprietary mastering technique, then plated with 24-karat gold and housed in a stress-resistant lift-lock jewel box.
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The title and cover photo of this 1963 recording were an attempt to cash in on the burgeoning American folk revival, but this is pure acoustic blues. Muddy began his career as a Robert Johnson-style solo acoustic performer, and the tunes on FOLK SINGER hark back to those days. He's accompanied sparsely by Willie Dixon, drummer Clifton James and a young Buddy Guy, who provide a stark, deliberate backdrop ...
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Chris Whitley has tinkered with genres as diverse as blues-rock, Americana, hard alternative rock, and straightforward singer/songwriter. Thus, it is no surprise that Whitley's fifth full-length batch of original material demonstrates a broad musical palette touching on all of these styles. Most interesting, however, is that ROCKET HOUSE finds Whitley taking a valiant stab at something that's always been just out of reach for him--mainstream accessibility. Guest contributions ...
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Sinead O'Connor has transcended much of the pain and anger of her public persona with this moody, evocative set of songs. Touching upon themes of fraternity and maternity with folkish grace and childlike metaphors, O'Connor's UNIVERSAL MOTHER reveals aspects of her longings and fears in cryptic freeze frames of song and sorcery that are haunting in their simplicity, and unsettling in their focus on doomed innocents.
Consecrated to the world's mothers and children, and dedicated "as a prayer from Ireland," UNIVERSAL MOTHER opens with an invocation from Germaine Greer, and the ominous overture "Fire In Babylon." With its menacing bassline and swirling mix of jazz samples and keyboards, it echoes Peter Gabriel, P.I.L. and Robert Fripp with its portents of dissolution and doom ("Life's backwards/People turn it around/The house is burned...The children are gone."). The penultimate "Famine" acts as a psychic bookend. Following a wolf's cry and an echo of "Fiddler On The Roof," the arrangement lurches forward with a hip hop collage of Miles Davis and the Beatles' "Eleanor Rigby," as O'Connor's narrative essays the destruction of Irish culture and history.
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Bashir Abdel Al plays the nay, the breathy Middle Eastern flute. On this disc he is backed by drums and occasionally by a quarter-tone accordion capable of playing Arabic music. The rest of the music is filled in entirely by keyboards. Usually the synth imitates strings, ...
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