David Olney - Migration

Title: Migration Artist: David Olney Release Date: 4/12/2005 Label: Loudhouse Records UPC: 803001200727 Genre: Folk Style: Contemporary Folk Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 1 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

1. The Song
2. Speak Memory
3. Lenora
4. No One Knows What Love Is
5. My Lovely Assistant
6. Light from Carolina
7. All the Same to Me
8. Ace of Spade Blues
9. Oh Lord
10. Birds
11. Upside Down

Year Type Label Catalog # 2005 CD Loudhouse Records 2007

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Migration, David Olney's 16th album, is a typical effort for him, one in which he constructs story-songs and inhabits various characters. Lyrically speaking, the chief innovations are that he has taken more of an interest in speaking on behalf of non-human characters, particularly birds ("Lenora"), and that he is more interested than usual in singing about love. Of course, personifying a bird isn't all that much of a stretch for a man who once wrote a song in the role of an iceberg ("Titanic"), but the love songs are a bit unusual, and it's notable that Olney is usually a co-author with someone else on them. Musically, he seems to have taken his cue largely from Bob Dylan's Desire, employing a violin, played by Deanie Richardson, to shadow his vocals much as Dylan had Scarlet Rivera do on that album. On a couple of songs, however, as he also did on 2003's The Wheel, Olney looks more to Tom Waits of the Swordfishtrombones and later period, taking a junkyard rock approach on "Speak Memory" and especially "Upside Down." While there is nothing wrong with this album, it is more one for the faithful than for new fans. With his gruff, relatively inexpressive voice, Olney is something of an acquired taste, and this is an album that requires several listenings to sink in, at which point it fits in with the rest of the catalog but does not rise above it. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide

Name Credits Booka Michel Executive Producer, Mastering Brydget Carrillo Photography, Package Design Carole Edwards Vocals Carolyn Edwards Vocals, Harmony, Vocals (Background) David K. Shipley Mastering David Olney Guitar (Acoustic), Vocals, Guitar (Electric), Audio Production, Guitar (Baritone), Producer, Guitar Deanie Richardson Fiddle, Whistle (Human), Mandolin, Percussion Emmylou Harris Liner Notes Gwil Owen Guitar John Hadley Vocals Michael "Mike Dee" Johnson Guitar (Classical) Michael Fleming Guitar (Bass) Michael Johnson Guitar (Classical) Mike Fleming Bass Pat McInerney Percussion Robb Earls Audio Production, Producer, Mastering, Mixing, Organ, Engineer Thom Jutz Guitar (Electric), Guitar (Classical), Bass Thomm Jutz Percussion, Guitar (Classical), Guitar, Guitar (Bass)