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Format: CD
Release Date: Mar 24, 2017
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Personnel: Jessi Colter (piano); Lenny Kaye (acoustic guitar, electric guitar).
Audio Mixer: Jesse Lauter.
Recording information: Dubway, Manhattan, NYC (01/04/2008/01/05/2008); Dubway, Manhattan, NYC (02/16/2007/02/17/2007).
Photographer: David McClister.
The plainspoken title The Psalms may suggest a straightforward gospel album, but this 2017 album is anything but straightforward. Jessi Colter recorded The Psalms with Lenny Kaye, the guitarist best known for his collaboration with Patti Smith. The pair became acquainted when Kaye was assisting Colter's late husband Waylon Jennings in writing his autobiography and, during this time, the writer discovered that the singer would often sit at her piano and improvise melodies to passages from the Book of Psalms. Convinced this was a great idea for an album, Kaye held two sessions in 2007 and 2008 -- not long after Colter released the Don Was-produced Out of the Ashes -- and then he spent the next several years augmenting the spare sketches with tastefully chosen musicians. The result is striking, unlike anything Jessi Colter has ever released: it's hushed and haunting, an elegiac testimonial to the power of enduring faith. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Audio Mixer: Jesse Lauter.
Recording information: Dubway, Manhattan, NYC (01/04/2008/01/05/2008); Dubway, Manhattan, NYC (02/16/2007/02/17/2007).
Photographer: David McClister.
The plainspoken title The Psalms may suggest a straightforward gospel album, but this 2017 album is anything but straightforward. Jessi Colter recorded The Psalms with Lenny Kaye, the guitarist best known for his collaboration with Patti Smith. The pair became acquainted when Kaye was assisting Colter's late husband Waylon Jennings in writing his autobiography and, during this time, the writer discovered that the singer would often sit at her piano and improvise melodies to passages from the Book of Psalms. Convinced this was a great idea for an album, Kaye held two sessions in 2007 and 2008 -- not long after Colter released the Don Was-produced Out of the Ashes -- and then he spent the next several years augmenting the spare sketches with tastefully chosen musicians. The result is striking, unlike anything Jessi Colter has ever released: it's hushed and haunting, an elegiac testimonial to the power of enduring faith. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Tracks:
1 - Psalm 150 Praise Ye the Lord
2 - Psalm 75 Unto Thee
3 - Psalm 114 And the Mountains Skip Like Rams
4 - Psalm 99 He Is Holy
5 - Psalm 24 Who Is the King of Glory
6 - Psalm 136 Mercy and Loving Kindness
7 - Psalm 151 King David's Last Psalm
8 - Psalm 21 Be Thou Exalted
9 - Psalm 45 My Song to a King
10 - Psalm 73 Like a Beast
11 - Psalm 23 The Lord Is My Shepherd
12 - Psalm 72 Arise O King of Old
2 - Psalm 75 Unto Thee
3 - Psalm 114 And the Mountains Skip Like Rams
4 - Psalm 99 He Is Holy
5 - Psalm 24 Who Is the King of Glory
6 - Psalm 136 Mercy and Loving Kindness
7 - Psalm 151 King David's Last Psalm
8 - Psalm 21 Be Thou Exalted
9 - Psalm 45 My Song to a King
10 - Psalm 73 Like a Beast
11 - Psalm 23 The Lord Is My Shepherd
12 - Psalm 72 Arise O King of Old