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Ms. Giddens, the relative newcomer, has been playing traditionalist string-band music in the Carolina Chocolate Drops, and her fiddle glides through many of the arrangements. On lead vocals (and, usually, banjo), she's the album's revelation, singing melodies that hark back to Celtic modes with a decisive presence and a haunting grace. Her "Spanish Mary" — one more of Mr. Dylan's irresistibly magnetic mystery women — could almost be a centuries-old Appalachian tune, though the arrangement gusts toward psychedelia. | Ms. Giddens, the relative newcomer, has been playing traditionalist string-band music in the Carolina Chocolate Drops, and her fiddle glides through many of the arrangements. On lead vocals (and, usually, banjo), she's the album's revelation, singing melodies that hark back to Celtic modes with a decisive presence and a haunting grace. Her "Spanish Mary" — one more of Mr. Dylan's irresistibly magnetic mystery women — could almost be a centuries-old Appalachian tune, though the arrangement gusts toward psychedelia. | ||
Songs don't write themselves, even with lyrics as vivid as those Dylan provided. The full 20-song version of the album includes alternate settings. Mr. James makes "Hidee Hidee Ho" — "makin' love where e'er we go" — a jaunty piano shuffle, the closest thing on the album to the sense of humor that runs throughout the original ''Basement Tapes''. Ms. Giddens hears it as a tale of restlessness and abandonment, sung in a creaky, mountain-granny voice. | Songs don't write themselves, even with lyrics as vivid as those Dylan provided. The full 20-song version of the album includes alternate settings. Mr. James makes "Hidee Hidee Ho" — ''"makin' love where e'er we go"'' — a jaunty piano shuffle, the closest thing on the album to the sense of humor that runs throughout the original ''Basement Tapes''. Ms. Giddens hears it as a tale of restlessness and abandonment, sung in a creaky, mountain-granny voice. | ||
The album's title song, "Lost on the River" also gets two versions. It has verses about lovesick loneliness, and a chorus that concludes, "I got lost on the river, but I got found." For Mr. Costello, it's a slow waltz with an exposed electric guitar, moving from desperation to solace. For Ms. Giddens (sharing writing credit with Mr. Mumford) it's an otherworldly plaint with sparse acoustic backup and high harmonies from the Lovell Sisters, concluding in a sorrowful minor key. Neither sounds like the song Mr. Dylan might have written, yet each is entirely convincing on its own. | The album's title song, "Lost on the River" also gets two versions. It has verses about lovesick loneliness, and a chorus that concludes, ''"I got lost on the river, but I got found."'' For Mr. Costello, it's a slow waltz with an exposed electric guitar, moving from desperation to solace. For Ms. Giddens (sharing writing credit with Mr. Mumford) it's an otherworldly plaint with sparse acoustic backup and high harmonies from the Lovell Sisters, concluding in a sorrowful minor key. Neither sounds like the song Mr. Dylan might have written, yet each is entirely convincing on its own. | ||
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[[Jon Pareles]] reviews ''[[Lost On The River: The New Basement Tapes]]''. | [[Jon Pareles]] reviews ''[[Lost On The River: The New Basement Tapes]]''. | ||
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