Gob Iron, Death Songs for the Living - 45m 11s

Tracks & Durations

1. Death's Black Train	3:46
2. Instrumental #1	0:56
3. Hard Times	3:38
4. Instrumental #2	0:59
5. Hills of Mexico	4:42
6. Instrumental #3	0:26
7. Silicosis Blues	4:20
8. Instrumental #4	1:13
9. Wayside Tavern	4:21
10. Instrumental #5	0:44
11. Nicotine Blues	2:58
12. Instrumental #6	0:58
13. Death Is Only a Dream	2:47
14. Instrumental #7	0:43
15. East Virginia Blues	3:52
16. Instrumental #8	1:08
17. Little Girl and a Dreadful Snake	3:19
18. Instrumental #9	1:05
19. Buzz & Grind	3:05

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Review

Gob Iron is the pairing of Uncle Tupelo and Son Volt founder Jay Farrar with Anders Parker of Varnaline. They have updated a range of American folk songs, adapting lyrics, slowing tempos, combining parts of two different numbers, and in general fully celebrating one of the defining characteristics of folk music: that it is kept alive in the guise of whoever is its current vessel, reflecting their character as well as those of their predecessors. A number of tracks on Death Songs for the Living illustrate this concept of "the folk process." "Silicosis Blues" combines the titular lyric with the melody from another song, "Paul and Silas in Jail." Elsewhere, there are numbers by the Reverend J.M. Gates, Stephen Foster, and the Stanley Brothers. Nine brief instrumentals separate each of the ten songs, the final one a new Farrar original, "Buzz and Grind," which ups the wattage for their ride off into the sunset. --David Greenberger

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