Where We Live

Where We Live

performed by Tanya Savory, fl. 1994 (Rounder Records, 2002), 42 mins

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Field of Interest
American Music
Content Type
Music recording
Duration
42 mins
Format
Audio
Sub Genre
Country
Label
Rounder Records
Performer
Tanya Savory, fl. 1994
Release Date
2002
Review
The songs on Where We Live revolve around place and dislocation: remembrance is used as a way of honoring what's come before, and meditations dwell in times and places that have passed by barely noticed. As on her two previous releases, Tanya Savory continues looking toward location for identity and for minute details in big pictures. To that mix she adds some uncharacteristically biting criticism of her current hometown, Nashville, and it's sleek, pop-ensconced and inauthentic musical and cultural aesthetic. "All these folks from far away/in boots that they bought yesterday" sums up the town's tourism, and of it's current music scene she sings, "it lost the grit and it lost the twang.../can't understand how it took three guys to write that song." She also throws in some rare-to-her-material romantic love on "Losing Me," but manages to tie in a road metaphor when she likens looking for a relationship's end to putting an ear to a train track. Musically Where We Live combines piano balladry with traditional {/country} and bluegrass instrumentation, and finds a low-key, folk-based groove akin to that of Nanci Griffith and John Gorka. ~ Travis Drageset, All Music Guide
Subject
American Music, Music & Performing Arts, American Studies, American Folk Music, Música Folklórica Norteamericana, Folk Music Norte-Americana
Keywords and Translated Subjects
Música Folklórica Norteamericana, Folk Music Norte-Americana

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