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Kate Wolf Weaver Of Visions: The Kate Wolf Anthology - Disc 1 of 2 (2000)
Weaver Of Visions: The Kate Wolf Anthology - Disc 1 of 2\n2000 Rhino Entertainment Company\n\nOriginally Released April 4, 2000\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: Rhino's Weaver of Visions: The Kate Wolf Anthology features a slightly different track listing than their 1986 collection of Wolf's work, Gold in California, and adds a few live and previously unreleased songs. Like the earlier set, Weaver of Visions is a double-disc package that provides a good overview of her quiet confessional style, particularly with songs like "Back Roads," "The Lilac & the Apple," "Early Morning Melody," and "Here in California." But live versions of "Cornflower Blue," "Give Yourself to Love," "Eyes of a Painter," and the previously unreleased songs "Shadow of a Life" and "Minstrel," add another dimension to this updated retrospective. -- Heather Phares\n\nAmazon.com Editorial Review\nAhead of her time and somehow beyond time, Northern California singer-songwriter Kate Wolf now has a collection to represent all her craft, wisdom, and radiance. Produced and compiled by Wolf's son Max, the 35 songs on Weaver of Visions include every track from the previous anthology, Gold in California (less only "Full Time Woman" and the antinuke ballad "The Sun Is Burning"), and adds 10 live performances and two previously unavailable songs. The selection is impeccable, focusing on what Wolf's guitarist Nina Gerber has called "Kateness": an intimacy born of hard times, a communion forged in love's fire, a delicate soulfulness that few of her acoustic-oriented peers--Emmylou Harris and Lucinda Williams come to mind--have captured. Even if you own every Wolf album, Weaver of Visions will be a revelation--from the sparkling remastering to the elegant photographs to the intelligent, 42-page liner notes to the songs and voice that will tear out your heart, then mend and renew it once again. --Roy Kasten \n\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nGreat Literature, Delivered Very Elegantly, April 7, 2007 \nBy David Rains (Houston, TX)\nI am 64 and have been listening to various types of music for 50 years but only recently discovered Kate Wolf. She immediately became my favorite singer/songwriter. It seems that her music is the music I have always been looking for but had never found. I agree with another reviewer who noted that one can listen to Kate almost continually without tiring of her. I was very saddened to learn of her untimely passing just when she was reaching her pinnacle. \n\nI have now acquired almost all of Kate's recordings and this album contains most of her best songs but a few are missing like "Love Still Remains" and "Great Love of my Life". \n\nAll Kate Wolf fans should watch the "Evening in Austin" video to see the refined professional she had become just a few months before she came down with leukemia. \n\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nGreat cut., March 9, 2007 \nBy Christopher Degetmon "Coyoteteacher" (Earth)\nAs someone who attended Kate's funeral years ago, I remember walking into the service in Marin with "Give yourself to love" playing over the PA system. This is a great album that defined a generation of activists, new age values, and a group of interesting people. \n\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nThe Enduring Mystery of Kate Wolf, July 3, 2006 \nBy Michael Everett (Santa Monica)\nI first discovered Kate Wolf's music twenty years ago while traveling the Mendocino Coast. It's not really about Northern California, but like a fine wine it has a certain regional stamp to it which adds to its quality. In time I bought all of her CD's and her music, which gradually intertwined and merged with my life until it seemed as if the songs were a personal gift from her to me, which I eventually learned was an illusion held in common by just about all of her fans. And in all those years, whenever I brought up the subject of Kate Wolf with my friends in Southern California, I invariably got a blank stare in return, followed by the question, "Who's Kate Wolf?" \n\nThe mystery of Kate Wolf is why her enormous popularity is still mainly confined to Northern California, why such a great artist has only produced twelve reviews on this page, and why this quintessential Kate Wolf album isn't even among Amazon's top ten thousand selling CD's. \n\nI don't know how many (if any)other musicians have an annual music festival dedicated to their memory, but Kate Wolf does and last week up near the Redwoods, the 11th annual such festival took place. The music was bluegrass, folk, and singer/songwriters with only an occasional Kate Wolf number thrown in, but her spirit was invoked from the stage more than once, and the festival closed out with the singing of one of Kate's signature songs, "Give Yourself to Love." The audience stood and sang along just as if it were a national anthem (and maybe it should be.) \n\nSo if this is your genre, if Kate's advice to "Give Yourself to Love" makes sense to you, or if her gentle warning that "We've Only Got These Times We're Living In" rings true, give her a listen, and you too can become part of California's best kept secret. \n\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nHere in California..., May 3, 2004 \nBy Ruminator (The Fencepost)\nNobody has ever captured the spirit of the rural West in music better than Kate Wolf. This generous set will satisfy almost anybody but those who have to have it all; for those who are just new to this astist, this is the best place to start - all killer, no filler. Some tracks are immediately addictive, while others reveal their pleasures more gradually. \nKate's songs are a celebration of passion, humanity, nature, healing, friendship, love, and much more. Her partners supported her with expert skills and arrangments that explored all the roots of American music, yet her style, concept, and delivery were completely her own. If Weaver of Visions is your first introduction to Kate, it may be a revelation. \n\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nHow did we ever learn to live without Kate, February 5, 2004 \nBy Tony Thomas (North Miami, FL USA)\nI feel so bad that I lived in San Fransisco and Oakland and travelled up and down California and the West Coast in the late 1970s and early 1980s when Kate was doing her best work and only saw her sing once. When I hear something like Sweet love on this CD, I wonder why I am not always listening to Kate. There is something to her voice that gets through to me, something pure. Now that I sing and play guitar and banjo and fiddle, I tend to listen to any singer or player that I hear trying to scope them out learn something, evaluate, figure out how to put what they do into my performance. Even though Kate plays the kind of music I have always wanted to play, I just sit there and listen to the song and receive its thoughts in my heart and mind. Part of Kate's magic is the superb arrangements and backup that gets from the musical genius Nina Gerber her main accompaniest. Nina is now out there solo alot. If you like guitar and this kind music check out Nina too.\nOh Kate, why didn't we realize how much of a golden treasure you were when you were among us. In her memory think of a performer you might miss like we all miss Kate--well that isnt fair because thats a big ideal to measure up to--how about someone you would miss half or a quarter as much as I miss Kate, and make sure you go see them while you can, and maybe bring a friend, bring two. \n\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nPrecious gems, June 14, 2001 \nBy brad lonard (Sydney, Australia)\nIt's hard to describe in words just how perfect Kate Wolf is -- the voice, the songs ... Then again, I don't really have to: this excellent two disc compilation does it all for me, skimming the cream off her recordings. Fittingly enough, it includes a good heaping serve of live tracks, because Wolf in concert was a very special experience. If the compilers managed to miss a couple of my own favourites, well, that's simply a tribute to the consistent quality and depth of her songs. Listeners new are guaranteed to fall in love with Kate Wolf; listeners old will welcome a fine, fine compilation. \n\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nIt's the voice stupid!, January 5, 2001 \nBy Patrick Zampetti (RICHMOND, VA United States)\nWithin about 3 seconds of a Kate Wolf song, your life changes a little. I mean, I don't even like the country bluegrass foot stompin stuff but when she sings it gets important and you want to listen. The ballads are a form of heart surgery with the patient always surviving and leading a better life as a result. My wife and I have been fans since '86 and were both saddened by her departure to "the other side" as she puts it. \n\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nBelieve the Reviews: This Is Wonderful., September 14, 2000 \nBy Jonathan Lyness (New York, NY United States)\nThis anthology contains some of the best singer-songwriter contemporary folk I've ever heard. I've been listening to this set for several months now, and am not even remotely tired of it. Kate Wolf's voice and songwriting will touch your heart..."Give Yourself to Love" brings tears to my eyes. I discover the music of dozens of different folk artists every year, but once in a rare while I will hear the work of a musician and think, "this is what I've been looking for, without even knowing it"...this is how I now feel about Kate Wolf. \n\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nMUSIC FROM DEEP IN THE HEART AND SOUL, August 16, 2000 \nBy Michael D. Zungolo (Philadelphia, PA USA)\nKate Wolf was one of the finest songwriters of her generation, and sang in a lovely rough-hewn country voice reminiscent of Sara Carter. Every recording she made in her career had beauty in it, and this loving compilation by Kate's son Max collects the best of them. ACROSS THE GREAT DIVIDE, GIVE YOURSELF TO LOVE, CORNFLOWER BLUE and TELLURIDE are, in my estimation, the best of them, but there isn't a song here that isn't moving in one way or another. It's people like Kate Wolf, an incandescent spirit who left this earth long, long, long before their time, that make one want to belive in a place called Heaven. \n\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nWeaver of Visions, April 20, 2000 \nBy "musicland" (Cardiff, South Glamorgan United Kingdom)\nI am new to Kate Wolf's work. This anthology is a victory for those who have captured in two discs a rare beauty and serenity which borders on the spiritual. If you explore one singer songwriter this year who weaves spells with words and music that lives on beyond the transience of life itself this should be the one.Thanks to Emmylou Harris and especially to Nanci Griffith for keeping the candle burning, across the Great Divide. \n\n\nHalf.com Details \nContributing artists: Nina Gerber, Norton Buffalo, Tony Rice \n\nAlbum Notes\nPersonnel includes: Kate Wolf (vocals, guitar, piano); Nina Gerber (acoustic & electric guitars, mandolin, harmonica, background vocals); Alan Thornhill (guitar, background vocals); David West, Martin Young, Cyrus Clark (guitar); Bill Griffin (12-string guitar, mandocaster, piano); Peter Siegel, Gary Potterton (pedal steel guitar); Randy Sabien (mandolin, violin); David Balakrishnan (violin); Paul Ellis (fiddle); Sharon O'Connor (cello); Kim Robertson (Celtic harp); Norton Buffalo (harmonica); Jim Nail (accordion); David Kessner (piano); Ford James, Peter Siegel (bass, background vocals); Bill Amatneek (bass); Tom Lackner (drums, percussion); Doug Corrigan (drums); Tony Rice, Beth Weil (background vocals).\n\nProducers include: Bill Griffin, Nina Gerber, Kate Wolf, Dan Dugan, Nancy Covey.\n\nCompilation producers: Max Wolf.\nEngineers include: Kate Wolf, Roger Gans, Bill Wolf.\nRecorded between July 1975 and November 1986. \n\nOriginally released on Kaleidoscope. \nIncludes previously unreleased live tracks recorded as part of a 1985 AUSTIN CITY LIMITS appearance. \n\nIncludes liner notes by Max Wolf & Larry Kelp.\nDigitally remastered by Dan Hersch & Bill Inglot (DigiPrep).\n\nWEAVER OF VISIONS, compiled by Wolf's son and musical executor Max, replicates previous two-disc anthology, 1987's GOLD IN CALIFORNIA almost entirely, subtracting only the somewhat dated protest songs "The Sun Is Burning" and "Full Time Woman." It also adds 10 live performances and two previously unheard studio outtakes.\nThe live performances, including an excellent version of her comparatively rare song "Give Yourself to Love," are uniformly terrific, up to the quality of those found on the other posthumous Kate Wolf live albums. It's hard to get away from the feeling that the collection could have included some of the great studio recordings not featured on the earlier compilation, but this stuff is so good that this seems like a minor quibble.
This folk cd contains 18 tracks and runs 78min 18sec.
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