Civil Wars Barton Hollow Track-by-Track Review
With voices that wrap around each other and bend together, the Civil Wars’ debut album Barton Hollow is refreshing in that the music can actually be performed the way it was recorded. The four-time Grammy Award winning album houses primarily quiet musings about lover’s troubles. The voices of Joy Williams and John Paul White have managed to encapture the glorious harmony and terrifying tension that is often the chemistry between lovers, making this subject an ideal theme for Barton Hollow. Below is FDRMX’s track-by-track album review of the Civil Wars’ Barton Hollow.
1. “20 Years” opens Barton Hollow with ____ acoustic guitar, paired with Joy Williams’ sweet vocals. The instrumentation is very …show more content…
“To Whom It May Concern” harmonizes with warmth and delicacy accompanied by string arrangements and acoustic guitar.
5. “Poison and Wine” is one single off of the album. the lyrics tell the tale of emotionally drained lovers. The relationship’s fragility is conveyed in White’s quivering voice, seeping with emotion. undeniable tension in the conflicted lyrics and darker musical shades. “I don’t love you but I always will”
Sounds like Robert Plant and Allison Straus, the Civil Wars have a distinct sound of their own, instantly recognizable and characterizable as theirs.
6. “My Father’s Father”
7. “Barton Hollow” Title track “Barton Hollow” is a “foot-stomper” and recalls Elbow’s 8. “Grounds for Divorce” The haunting tune has Williams’ and White’s vocals rising and falling -an alt-country, Southern-folk kind of
8. “The Violet Hour” quiet hall piano and quietly plucked guitar soon with cello that fades with a clock chime rhythm in the piano. Pretty ballad
9. “Girl with the Red Balloon” a kind of carnival carousel pattern to it, this melancholy tune focuses on a “lonely girl floating away”...
10. “Falling”
11. “Forget Me Not” a prime example of how Williams and White’s voices have an uncanny ability to bend with each