The Well Megan Reilly SKU: SAKI0051 Barcode: 789397005118 16.00 £16.00 Genre: Folk Label: Carrot Top Records Released Date: 14th May 2012 Buying Format: 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info After a five year wait, the enigmatic Megan Reilly returns from our last ghostly encounter with her captivating music to present us with a new album that holds a creative leap born of great, unexpected personal transformation. Megan\’s countrified Memphis roots and subsequent New York City escape still underpin her music, music which resounds with her \”delightful combination of vulnerability and Southern grace\” (Dallas Observer). But The Well holds a treasure chest of surprises. Megan\’s country-tinged coo and warble can still turn on a dime to a hair-raising growl. For the first time, though, her musical tone and lyrical focus at times portray an urgent sense of hope wrought by love. Shockingly to all, not the least Megan Reilly, it is love that spawns her greatest work: \”To Seal My Love.\” It is a plaintive lullaby quickly shifting gears into roaring, triumphant, anthemic majesty that fully envelopes, overwhelms, and warms. During her hiatus, Megan had a child, moved out of New York, learned to bake and quilt, and became fully domesticated. Fear not. She hasn\’t gone soft or forgotten how to write the songs that captured our hearts in the first place. A rich and carefully chosen metaphor, The Well can be a deep place of impenetrable darkness, fear, and mystery, a place that does not relinquish its visitors. In these depths, Megan Reilly again bravely faces off with the specter of existential darkness. With her band of aces, Steven Goulding (d-Mekons), James Mastro (g-Health and Happiness Show, Bongos), and Tony Maimone (b-Pere Ubu), Megan still conjures an enveloping cross between emotive Irish fatalism and Southern Gothic macabre. She still comfortably camps in these darkest of corners. “The Lady of Leitrim,” filled with Lenny Kaye’s (Patti Smith Group) singularly ethereal riffs, haunts us long after The Lady disappears, and as an arrow punctures Megan’s heart, her little “Little Angel” flies away before its time. But her surprising cover of Iris Dement’s plaintive “After You’re Gone\” portends new directions. Upon this song’s foundation of pain, Megan finds the strength to face Death\’s sting and still hold onto love. Following her long dark night of the soul, no one was more surprised than Megan to find that The Well is simultaneously a place of creativity and redemption. The Well\’s resident muse offers up blindingly beautiful gems like her obliquely enigmatic “To Seal My Love,\” that again delivers Lenny Kaye’s indispensable shimmer. Maybe old friend like John Wesley Harding receives his own visit from the The Well\’s muse and is handed an earworm of a duet, “Old Man and the Bird.” Once discovered, the muse of The Well can lead you out the darkness once and for all. With a languid sense of melody and a throaty soprano cloaked in mystique…Reilly exudes southern gothicism at nearly every turn…- No Depression A moodily electrifying Folk Pop gem, shimmered with a quiet intensity at the intersection of Emmylou Harris and Nick Drake…Let Your Ghost Go is another stunning triumph. – Cincinnati City Beat \”Jaw-dropping.\”-Maxim Artist Megan Reilly Genre Folk Label Carrot Top Records Buying Options 1LP Format 1LP Condition New Country UK Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Folk View Product Quick View Tim Buckley Dream Letter Folk | Edsel | 3LP Released 25th August 2017 £32.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Tim Buckley Dream Letter £32.00 Genre: Folk Label: Edsel SKU: DEMREC231 Formats: 3LP Released Date: 25th August 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Woods Sun & Shade Folk | Woodsist | 1LP Released 9th June 2011 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Woods Sun & Shade £16.00 Genre: Folk Label: Woodsist SKU: WOODSIST053 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 9th June 2011 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Thompson Family Folk | Ammal Records | 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 12th January 2015 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Thompson Family £20.00 Genre: Folk Label: Ammal Records SKU: AAMM2000 Formats: 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 12th January 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View John and Beverly Martyn Stormbringer Folk | 4 Men With Beards | 180g, 1LP Released 10th August 2016 £27.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders John and Beverly Martyn Stormbringer £27.00 Genre: Folk Label: 4 Men With Beards SKU: 4M803LP Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 10th August 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View Nitty Gritty Dirt Band The Rest Of The Dream Folk | MCA | 1LP Released 12th August 2014 £5.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Nitty Gritty Dirt Band The Rest Of The Dream £5.00 Genre: Folk Label: MCA SKU: NN71101 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 12th August 2014 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Tony Conrad & Jennifer Walshe In The Merry Month of May Folk | Blue Chopsticks | 1LP Released 24th May 2024 £27.00 Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders Tony Conrad & Jennifer Walshe In The Merry Month of May £27.00 Genre: Folk Label: Blue Chopsticks SKU: BC33 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 24th May 2024 Read More Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Emily Barker Sweet Kind Of Blue (Indies Only) Folk | Everyone Sang | 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 12th May 2017 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Emily Barker Sweet Kind Of Blue (Indies Only) £20.00 Genre: Folk Label: Everyone Sang SKU: ES153LPB Formats: 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 12th May 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Nathan Salsburg Third Folk | No Quarter | 1LP Released 20th July 2018 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nathan Salsburg Third £18.00 Genre: Folk Label: No Quarter SKU: NOQ057LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 20th July 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Paul's picks View Product Quick View Seth Avett Seth Avett Sings Greg Brown Folk | Ramseur Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 4th November 2022 £20.00 Select options Seth Avett Seth Avett Sings Greg Brown £20.00 Genre: Folk Label: Ramseur Records Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 4th November 2022 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Michael Hurley First Songs Folk | Folkways | 180g, 1LP Released 27th September 2016 £27.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Michael Hurley First Songs £27.00 Genre: Folk Label: Folkways SKU: FW03581LP Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 27th September 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Folk Start again
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