MARTHA SCANLAN
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THE MEADOW by Martha Scanlan
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Martha Scanlan - The Shape of Things Gone Missing, The Shape of Things
To Come (eTown webisode 823)
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Martha Scanlan - Seeds of The Pine
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Live from the Grey Eagle . . . Martha Scanlan - "Little Bird of
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GUARDIAN ANGEL by Martha Scanlan
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03 ScanlanandNeufeld 2010-08-07 Seeds Of The Pine
[http://www.thegreyeagle.com/event/1515426-evening-martha-scanlan-asheville/#]MARTHA
SCANLAN’s long-awaited third release, The Shape Of Things Gone
Missing, The Shape Of Things To Come, is already being heralded as her
best work yet. Given the beloved status of her first two records,
that’s a tall order to fill.
The album is the result of a relative hiatus from the road; five years
spent immersed in working and living on a 120 year-old small family
cattle ranch in a remote corner of Southeastern Montana. Tongue River
Stories was recorded on location there four years ago.
“I thought I was stepping back from music and writing,” says
SCANLAN, “but when these songs came together I realized that I have
been writing them all along. There’s a beautiful congruence in music
and working with cattle and horses- it’s all about the flow, finding
the current in things. I was curious about how that would translate in
the studio, how the landscape would come through.”
She couldn’t have found better company for such an endeavor;
producer and long time musical collaborator Jon Neufeld brought fellow
members of Black Prairie and the Decemberists, Dolorean and Amy Helm
together into the studio for four short days. The record was mixed and
mastered within ten.
“We wanted it to be a live, improvisational and collaborative
process, to really let the current of the songs be the guide.”
The result is stunning.
The gift of a great storyteller is the bringing of the listener into
the story, and the story into the listener. It’s not just the words
of the songs that provide that rare lasting transformative alchemy
that has become so characteristic of Martha Scanlan’s work, and
earned her the small loyal cult following that seems to be steadily
growing. It’s the space between the words, the current of things,
the sound of the place itself.
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