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if nobody has got me at least I know my folk ladies have got me 😔✊
#they are. all I've listened to for a solid six months#tia blake#vashti bunyan#jean ritchie#shirley collins#mary o'hara#kossoy sisters#molly drake#connie converse#my beloveds :')
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Girls who rock: Tia Blake
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Four favourites daily 🎨 # 26
link to this spotify mixtape
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sometimes it's just you, your earbuds, a crushing loneliness that rots away the meat of your heart, and tia blake against the world
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Happy heavenly 72nd birthday, Tia Blake.
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what if we sat on a back porch in mid summer listening to tia blake and passing a cigarette. and we were both girls.
#well girl adjacent at least#tia blake#dont smoke kids#ok to rb#personal blogging#yearning on main#my humor
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Me when Tia Blake says “brother have you brought me hope, or have you payed my fee; or have you come to see me hanging from the gallows tree…”
#SLACK YOUR ROPE HANGMAN SLACK IT FOR A WHILE#I HAVE NOT BROUGHT YOU HOPE I HAVE NOT PAYED YOUR FEE FOR I HAVE COME TO SEE YOU HANGING FROM THE GALLOWS TREE#I cannot be normal today not now#pan’s box#tia blake
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I love the ground whereon he stands
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Tia Blake - Polly Vaughn
Folksongs & Ballads (1971)
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slack your rope hangman, slack it far and wide
i think i see my father coming ridin’ many a mile
father have you brought me hope or have you paid my fee? or have you come to see me hanging from the gallows tree?
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Album of the Week #61
Folksongs & Ballads
(1972)
by Tia Blake
Overall Rating: 9/10
TL;DR: I am in love with everything in this album.
(I wish there was a little more going on but shes a queen nonetheless 7/10)
Thank god, an album that is only half an hour long.
Overall Thoughts
I have come out of listening to this album convinced that I am in love with Tia Blake. Her voice, her playing, her subject matter, everything about this album is all I could have hoped for. I’m pretty sure that she is someone Spotify just started randomly recommending to people because she went from being unknown to having two songs with millions of listens. Whatever algorithm did this needs to keep going, because wow is this album great.
What grabbed me the most was Blake’s voice – so haunting and ethereal I feel like I could listen to it forever. Mix that with some minor medieval sounding acoustic tracks and if feels like this mysterious bard from the medieval France is giving you a show so spectacular that you will start to believe in a God. I wasn’t bluffing when I said I think I’m in love.
Speaking of God, my favorite song is definitely “Plastic Jesus,” probably the most upbeat one on the album. Ever since I first heard the song last year (this is the main one Spotify has been recommending to people) the line “I’m in the backseat sinnin’, Jesus up there grinnin’” has been stuck in my head. Other favorites on the album include “Betty and Dupree,” “The Rising of the Moon,” and “Hangman,” the latter being haunting, beautiful songs.
The only reason this album is getting docked a point is because unfortunately, none of these songs were written by Tia Blake. I suspected this when I heard “Man of Constant Sorrow” and a song about an Irish war, but after looking all of the up they were all established southern classics before Tia covered them. I do think she adds a fantastic touch to all of these songs, I just can’t give this album a perfect score with that in mind.
Final Thoughts
I don’t know if it was obvious enough, but I love this album. It’s going to be added to my “I’m on a trip and want to pass out” album rotation which is the biggest praise I can give an album.
Next Week's Review: Devil (2022) Max Changmin
#album 61#album of the week#album review#music review#album recommendation#favorites#music recommendation#folk#tia blake
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