Dione Taylor - Spirits In The Water

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 2020
Time: 36:40
Size: 84,6 MB
Label: Matay Records
Styles: Blues
Art: Front

Tracks Listing:
 1. Water - 3:53
 2. Workin' - 3:55
 3. Where I Belong - 4:23
 4. Down The Bloodline - 3:47
 5. One More Shot - 3:36
 6. Spirit - 4:27
 7. How Many Times - 2:29
 8. Darkness - 3:40
 9. Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around - 3:39
10. Running - 2:44

On an album of shimmering gospel and swampy Americana sounds, the chanteuse Dione Taylor has got those restless dropped-G blues.
Take, for example, the existential questioning of Where I Belong, in which the Regina-born, church-raised singer is runnin’ and searchin’ and has to “keep on movin’.” On the acoustic-slide-driven Down the Bloodline, the song’s protagonist is “runnin’ and runnin’ down the line.”
There’s a chugging, clapping Slim Harpo groove to Workin’. Taylor sings about cookin’, cleanin’ and “always dancin’ for the man.”
And on the defiant anti-racism of Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around, Taylor is fightin’, walkin’, marchin’, pushin’, prayin’, believin’ and resistin’. So, there’s much of a muchness to Spirits in the Water, an album inspired by a Yuchi Indian legend of a singing river and motivated by a road trip to Tennessee. “Legendary stories and family history travel through us, flow into the waters and down the bloodline,” Taylor says in the album’s press release. If Taylor is a repetitive lyricist, she’s a believable, pitch-perfect singer on these songs of perseverance. Her main collaborator is Joel Schwartz, who produced and co-wrote most of the album while pitching in on guitar and banjo. For fans of slick, cinematic river-bank blues, Spirits in the Water is your ticket. And, one might say, essential listenin’.

Spirits In The Water