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MagnetNov 5, 2014The treatments are smartly contemporary, balancing Amidon's clawhammer banjo with Frisell's echoing electric guitar, backed by jazz-inflected bass and drums. [No. 114, p.53]
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Sep 29, 2014It’s heartfelt and sincere without pandering to any audience.
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Oct 22, 2014Culling lyrics from the public domain and recording with few overdubs or added takes, Amidon and a group of trusted players perform Lily-O with an immense, artistic daring.
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Dec 4, 2014It's easily one of the most beautiful, subdued folk records of the year.
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Nov 14, 2014He just hides his eccentricities a little better this time. You have to look for them, but they’re there.
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MojoNov 7, 2014Many of the inventive musical excursions were improvised live in the studio. [Nov 2014, p.95]
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UncutSep 29, 2014Technology's presence just goes to show how untamable Amidon's unself-conscious, creaky-rope voice is. [Nov 2014, p.71]
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Sep 29, 2014Somehow at once entertaining, comforting, and challenging, Lily-O sees Amidon again pushing his distinctive perspectives through songs that belong to everybody.
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Sep 29, 2014Sam Amidon’s new set of “reimagined folk songs” is a compellingly quiet, intense affair that is remarkable both for the power of his understated, no-nonsense and often mournful vocals, and for the subtle arrangements that bring an urgency to his mostly traditional American songs and hymns.
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Oct 27, 2014The adventure sees Amidon and band record fully live, in a successful attempt at playing in an intimate, ‘real’ setting, without either artifice of overdubs.
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Oct 6, 2014Mr. Amidon’s singing is unforced but sturdy, and possibly playing with your notions of guilelessness.
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Oct 6, 2014He trusts in the strength of his lived-in arrangements and, on another album of beautifully detailed folk songs, he’s absolutely right to do so.
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Oct 9, 2014There is nothing on Lily-O to break the spell these musicians have too carefully cast. In other words, there is nothing to get Amidon out of his own head or out of our collective past.