0542. Gillian Welch
Time (The Revelator)

The sleeve image for this album.

Not to pit two musicians against each other and hope they'll duke it out (oh, yes it is), but this is what Dirt Wheels On A Gravel Road should have sounded like!

Mountain-style Americana with lyrics caught in doubt (also, singing about Elvis "shook it like a chorus girl, shook it like a Harlem Queen"? Definitely bonus points for irreverent style.)

The backgrouns check reveals that a couple of different recording-styles were used on the album:
Revelator was a sound test that just got the right feel to it and I Want To Sing That Rock And Roll is a live-recording from a gig somewhere. Strangely they both fit seamlessly into the flow of the other songs, lifting the album another notch.