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Ben & Ellen Harper

2014 - Childhood Home [mp3@320]






Ben & Ellen Harper


Ben & Ellen Harper in 2014

Wikipedia:
Benjamin Chase "Ben" Harper (born October 28, 1969) is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Harper plays an eclectic mix of blues, folk, soul, reggae and rock music and is known for his guitar-playing skills, vocals, live performances, and activism.[3] He has released twelve regular studio albums, mostly through Virgin Records and has toured internationally. Harper is a three-time Grammy Award winner as well, winning awards for Best Pop Instrumental Performance and Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album, in 2005. He also won a Grammy for Best Blues Album in 2014.


Childhood Home



Artist: Ben & Ellen Harper
Title: Childhood Home
Format: CD, Album, Digipak
Producer: Ben Harper
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Label: Prestige Folklore
Catalog: FLR 35526-02
ASIN: B00J110BLW
Genre: Blues, Folk, Acoustic
Duration: 33:38 min

Ben Harper and his mother Ellen have collaborated to create Childhood Home an absorbing deeply personal collection of original songs released on May 6th 2014. The ten songs on Childhood Home six written by Ben and four written by Ellen, explore the intricacies of family life with honesty and generous intimacy.

AllMusic Review by Thom Jurek:
Singer, songwriter, and guitarist Ben Harper began his career with the solo acoustic debut Welcome to the Cruel World. Childhood Home takes Harper back to his roots -- literally: he recorded it in collaboration with his mother, Ellen Harper. There isn't an electric instrument on this ten-song set, which features six new tunes by him and four by her. There are a trio of other players who help out on piano, guitar, and upright bass. Ellen's parents (both musicians) founded the Folk Music Center and Museum in Claremont, California, over 50 years ago; she still works there. As a single mom she worked while Harper played around with various instruments. The music here centers on songs of home and the myriad experiences that revolve around it, some of them quite painful. Ben's country-folk song "A House Is a Home" (which recalls the melody of "Love Is a Rose") looks at the hearth as the centerpiece of personal history. Ellen's "City of Dreams" reflects on the city where she grew up that has disappeared; the victim of suburban sprawl. Ben's "Born to Love You" is a waltz sung as a duet, accompanied by quietly shuffling drums and piano. Here, "home" is the beloved: I love you/I live you…." On her "Farmer's Daughter," a minor-key country-blues, Ellen plays banjo and Ben lays out Weissenborn slide and flatpicked acoustic fills. Their layered backing vocals are haunting. Her "Altar of Love" is a country-gospel waltz. Its poetry is simple, direct, yet expert; she distills the heart-wrenching experience of marrying, motherhood, and sacrifice in a fable that contains a tragic circular twist of fate. Her deeply moving "Break Your Heart," with its subtle R&B tinge, is the finest song here. Ben's "Memories of Gold" reveals the growth in his own writing. Here, country, soul, and folk-blues all commingle in a cut-time waltz. His world-weary vocals offer wisdom gained through lived experience. The ghostly, holistic gospel in his closer, "How Could We Not Believe," is a hymn of beauty and resolve, with the pair's voices blending perfectly amid strummed autoharp, dulcimer, and guitars. Childhood Home is, in essence, timeless. It brims with quiet conviction about the blood and spiritual ties that bind, an indestructible place in the heart, and offers proof that folk music can indeed be "soul" music.




01. A House Is A Home - 2:43
02. City Of Dreams - 3:42
03. Born To Love You - 3:30
04. Heavyhearted World - 2:57
05. Farmer's Daughter - 3:14
06. Memories Of Gold - 3:47
07. Altar Of Love - 3:21
08. Break Your Heart - 3:41
09. Learn It All Again Tomorrow - 3:03
10. How Could We Not Believe - 3:46


Credits:

Bass, Keyboards – Jesse Ingalls
Drums – Jimmy Paxon
Guitar – Jason Mozersky
Guitar, Banjo, Vocals – Ellen Harper
Slide Guitar, Guitar, Autoharp, Dulcimer, Vocals – Ben Harper



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