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Track List
01) Prelude
02) City of Refuge
03) Bring Me My Queen
04) Chains
05) Ballad of Treason
06) Last Train
07) Burn Thru
08) Corner Girl
09) Dreams of Nectar
10) Divine Bell
11) Bright Morning Stars
01) Prelude
02) City of Refuge
03) Bring Me My Queen
04) Chains
05) Ballad of Treason
06) Last Train
07) Burn Thru
08) Corner Girl
09) Dreams of Nectar
10) Divine Bell
11) Bright Morning Stars
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2011
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City of Refuge is the third album by singer, songwriter, and banjoist Abigail Washburn. Produced and mixed by Tucker Martine, City of Refuge boasts an extensive and impressive list of collaborators, players, and singers, including Bill Frisell, Jeremy Kittel, Viktor Krauss, guzheng master Wu Fei, and Kai Welch.
Banjo – Abigail Washburn
Bass – Morgan Jahnig
Cello – Nathaniel Smith
Choir – Ben Elkins, Bobby Funk, Carla Parisi, Casey Mickle, Dabney Morris, Dyar Jr., Elizabeth Pullum, Harry Skeen, Jacob Gordon, James Wallace (3), Kevin Dailey, Leslie Arney, Neil Anderson, Reverend Robert Hardy, Veta Bates Allen
Chorus Master – Kai Welch
Double Bass – Viktor Krauss
Drums – Jamie Dick, Kenny Malone, Tucker Martine
Dulcimer – Chris Funk
Electric Bass – Viktor Krauss
Electric Guitar – Bill Frisell, Carl Broemel, Chris Funk
Fiddle – Annalisa Tornfelt, Rayna Gellert
Guitar – Kai Welch, Ketch Secor, Kevin Dailey
Guzheng – Wu Fei
Keyboards – Kai Welch
Loops – Kai Welch
Mixed By – Tucker Martine
Organ – Kai Welch
Pedal Steel Guitar – Carl Broemel, Chris Funk
Percussion – Jamie Dick, Kenny Malone, Tucker Martine
Piano – Kai Welch
Producer – Tucker Martine
Recorded By – Tucker Martine
Slit Drum – Kai Welch
Trombone – Diego
Trumpet – Kai Welch
Tuba – Joe Murphy
Viola – Jeremy Kittel
Violin – Jeremy Kittel
Vocals – Abigail Washburn, Batubagen, Kai Welch, Ketch Secor, Kevin Dailey, Yiliqi
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BBC Review
An original, accessible and highly recommended purchase.
David Quantick 2011
A member of all-women banjo and traditional music group Uncle Earl (they call themselves, rather distressingly, the g’Earls), Abigail Washburn is married to the most revered banjo player alive, Béla Fleck. Despite these anchors deep in the Oh Brother! Thou Art Another Bluegrass Player! tradition, Washburn is a brilliant solo artist who uses her instrumental talents to make, not scrangly-doodle mountain man tunes (which’d be fine), but extraordinary and hard to describe but easy to like music of considerable originality.
Using a small band with pedal steel, fiddle and, yes, banjo, Washburn’s second solo album proper is a determined and intense collection with tunes a cat could whistle, if that’s what cats did. Lyrically, things are a long way from country hoedowns – "I was at ease with the socialite graces," she reassures us fairly early on – and there’s inventive use of the studio which fans of Arcade Fire, Sufjan Stevens and other acts who’ve eschewed the clichés of both folk and rock to make high quality music will enjoy.
Washburn has a proper voice and a proper view of the world, and is an extremely effective writer. Songs like the title-track, Last Train and Ballad of Treason hint at a new traditionalist world, but musically owe more to Washburn’s sheer inventiveness than a stifling past. Contrariwise, one of the best songs here is deeply traditional in its opening lines – "The first day I set foot in this fair country" – but is called, surreally, Dreams of Nectar, and builds slowly into a kind of folk Spiritualized epic. An original, accessible and highly recommended purchase.
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City of Refuge is the third album by singer, songwriter, and banjoist Abigail Washburn. Produced and mixed by Tucker Martine, City of Refuge boasts an extensive and impressive list of collaborators, players, and singers, including Bill Frisell, Jeremy Kittel, Viktor Krauss, guzheng master Wu Fei, and Kai Welch.
Banjo – Abigail Washburn
Bass – Morgan Jahnig
Cello – Nathaniel Smith
Choir – Ben Elkins, Bobby Funk, Carla Parisi, Casey Mickle, Dabney Morris, Dyar Jr., Elizabeth Pullum, Harry Skeen, Jacob Gordon, James Wallace (3), Kevin Dailey, Leslie Arney, Neil Anderson, Reverend Robert Hardy, Veta Bates Allen
Chorus Master – Kai Welch
Double Bass – Viktor Krauss
Drums – Jamie Dick, Kenny Malone, Tucker Martine
Dulcimer – Chris Funk
Electric Bass – Viktor Krauss
Electric Guitar – Bill Frisell, Carl Broemel, Chris Funk
Fiddle – Annalisa Tornfelt, Rayna Gellert
Guitar – Kai Welch, Ketch Secor, Kevin Dailey
Guzheng – Wu Fei
Keyboards – Kai Welch
Loops – Kai Welch
Mixed By – Tucker Martine
Organ – Kai Welch
Pedal Steel Guitar – Carl Broemel, Chris Funk
Percussion – Jamie Dick, Kenny Malone, Tucker Martine
Piano – Kai Welch
Producer – Tucker Martine
Recorded By – Tucker Martine
Slit Drum – Kai Welch
Trombone – Diego
Trumpet – Kai Welch
Tuba – Joe Murphy
Viola – Jeremy Kittel
Violin – Jeremy Kittel
Vocals – Abigail Washburn, Batubagen, Kai Welch, Ketch Secor, Kevin Dailey, Yiliqi
User Album Review
BBC Review
An original, accessible and highly recommended purchase.
David Quantick 2011
A member of all-women banjo and traditional music group Uncle Earl (they call themselves, rather distressingly, the g’Earls), Abigail Washburn is married to the most revered banjo player alive, Béla Fleck. Despite these anchors deep in the Oh Brother! Thou Art Another Bluegrass Player! tradition, Washburn is a brilliant solo artist who uses her instrumental talents to make, not scrangly-doodle mountain man tunes (which’d be fine), but extraordinary and hard to describe but easy to like music of considerable originality.
Using a small band with pedal steel, fiddle and, yes, banjo, Washburn’s second solo album proper is a determined and intense collection with tunes a cat could whistle, if that’s what cats did. Lyrically, things are a long way from country hoedowns – "I was at ease with the socialite graces," she reassures us fairly early on – and there’s inventive use of the studio which fans of Arcade Fire, Sufjan Stevens and other acts who’ve eschewed the clichés of both folk and rock to make high quality music will enjoy.
Washburn has a proper voice and a proper view of the world, and is an extremely effective writer. Songs like the title-track, Last Train and Ballad of Treason hint at a new traditionalist world, but musically owe more to Washburn’s sheer inventiveness than a stifling past. Contrariwise, one of the best songs here is deeply traditional in its opening lines – "The first day I set foot in this fair country" – but is called, surreally, Dreams of Nectar, and builds slowly into a kind of folk Spiritualized epic. An original, accessible and highly recommended purchase.
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