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title: Public Domain: Songs From The Wild Land.
Dave Alvin & The Guilty Men: Dave Alvin (vocals, acoustic,
electric & bottleneck slide guitars); Rick Shea (acoustic,
electric & pedal steel guitars, mandolin, background vocals);
Joe Terry (accordion, piano, organ, background vocals); Gregory
Boaz (acoustic & electric basses); Bobby Lloyd Hicks (drums,
background vocals).
Additional personnel: Greg Leisz (slide guitar, dobro, mandolin);
Brantley Kearns (fiddle, background vocals); John "Juke"
Logan (harmonica); David Jackson (acoustic & electric bass).
Recorded at My Place Or Yours Studio, Glendale, California in
April 2000. Includes liner notes by Dave Alvin.
PUBLIC DOMAIN won the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Traditional
Folk Album.
Dave Alvin has carved out a body of work as lasting as the Rocky
Mountains. With PUBLIC DOMAIN, he set his sights on the timeless
songs in the public domain. From obscure origins and shadow-filled
histories, these songs have endured thanks to the people who keep
them alive by singing them.
Dave Alvin's deep and resonant voice has grown more facile with
each ensuing year. It's become a confident instrument he wields
with subtle vigor. Alvin's choice of material energized not only
him, but also his parcel of like-minded, rough and tumble
bandmates. The songs can roll along with chugging grooves
("Maggie Campbell") or be cast in crystalline elegance
("Short Life Of Trouble"). These 15 songs are doorways
into the passions, daring, honesty, grief, regrets, lust, and
redemption that are our shared humanity.
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