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- Summary: The second full-length release from Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi was recorded over six days in Ireland during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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- Record Label: Nonesuch
- Genre(s): Bluegrass, Country, Folk, Neo-Traditional Folk, String Bands, Contemporary Country, Modern Acoustic Blues, Regional Blues, Country Blues, Piedmont Blues
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Apr 16, 2021This is a big, beautiful album, a showcase for direct, punchy emotions and Giddens’ vocal versatility. She trained as an opera singer and executes astonishing levels of beauty and control on Monteverdi’s Si Dolce è’l Tormento and When I Was in My Prime, a folk song previously covered by Pentangle and Nina Simone.
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UncutApr 15, 2021It's a extended mediation on the expat experience, with yearningly hymnal renditions. [May 2021, p.27]
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Apr 15, 2021While this work may not be as riveting and stunning as its predecessor, due mostly to the familiarity of many of the tunes, that dynamic cuts both ways because there are few interpreters as adept as Giddens for traditional fare. Also, the remarkable musical chemistry between the duo just continues to grow.
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Apr 15, 2021Albums like They’re Calling Me Home are so effortlessly masterful, so mesmerizing, that the listener can write them off as easily replicable. But the work of Giddens and Turrisi is unique to them. Utterly perfect in its breadth and message, Home is, indeed, where the heart is.
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MojoApr 15, 2021The pair's musical chemistry is a potent one. [May 2021, p.78]
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May 19, 2021They’re Calling Me Home memorializes and breathes new life into a set of songs that feel familiar and entirely unexpected.
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Apr 15, 2021The pair find comfort within each other, yet they cannot shake the yearning for other people and places, a complex set of emotions that were quite universal during 2020 and 2021 and are richly conveyed on this soulful, searching album.
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Apr 12, 2022Beautiful music. Soulful and honest. Minimal yet masterful production and musicianship. 5*
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