Deeper Waters
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Deeper Waters is the first album of duo Robin and Linda Williams
on the Red House Records
label, released in 2004.
Deeper Waters marks the 30th anniversary as a recording and touring unit for Robin and Linda Williams. They wrote or co-wrote all but one track. Guest vocalists include Iris DeMent
, Mary Chapin Carpenter
, Schuyler Fisk
, and actress Sissy Spacek
.
Allmusic states "The Williams have issued what amounts to nothing short of a masterpiece and perhaps their most inspired recorded moment. Deeper Waters is a testament to the stories that are seldom told yet lived in every community, era, and household. This is the place where love, grief, loss, endings, and beginnings are given utterance: to whisper, weep, laugh, and reflect as they move through lives both ghostly and grand."
Robin and Linda Williams
Robin and Linda Williams are a husband-and-wife singer-songwriter folk music duo from Virginia. They began their musical association in Nashville, TN in 1971, performing in local clubs....
on the Red House Records
Red House Records
Red House Records is an American independent record label specializing in folk music and is based in St. Paul, Minnesota.The label was originally created in 1981 by Greg Brown as a method to distribute his own music, and is named for a farmhouse in Iowa where he was living...
label, released in 2004.
Deeper Waters marks the 30th anniversary as a recording and touring unit for Robin and Linda Williams. They wrote or co-wrote all but one track. Guest vocalists include Iris DeMent
Iris DeMent
Iris DeMent is an American singer and songwriter. DeMent's musical style encompasses the genres country and folk music.-Early life:...
, Mary Chapin Carpenter
Mary Chapin Carpenter
Mary Chapin Carpenter is an American folk and country music artist. Carpenter spent several years singing in Washington, D.C. clubs before signing in the late 1980s with Columbia Records, who marketed her as a country singer...
, Schuyler Fisk
Schuyler Fisk
Schuyler Elizabeth Fisk is an American actress and singer-songwriter.-Early life:Fisk was born in Los Angeles, California to actress Sissy Spacek and production designer Jack Fisk....
, and actress Sissy Spacek
Sissy Spacek
Sissy Spacek is an American actress and singer. She came to international prominence for her for role as Carrie White in Brian De Palma's 1976 horror film Carrie for which she earned her first Academy Award nomination...
.
Allmusic states "The Williams have issued what amounts to nothing short of a masterpiece and perhaps their most inspired recorded moment. Deeper Waters is a testament to the stories that are seldom told yet lived in every community, era, and household. This is the place where love, grief, loss, endings, and beginnings are given utterance: to whisper, weep, laugh, and reflect as they move through lives both ghostly and grand."
Track listing
- "Whippoorwill" ("Dakota" Dave Hull, Williams, Williams) – 3:08
- "October Light" (Robin Williams, Linda Williams) – 3:30
- "Clarkfield" (Jerome Clark, Williams, Williams 3:55
- "Leaving This Land" (Clark, Williams, Williams 3:40
- "Home, No. 235" (Williams, Williams) – 3:48
- "Old Plank Road" (Williams, Williams) – 3:36
- "Used to Be" (Clark, Williams, Williams) – 3:56
- "I'm Just Glad You're Gone" (Jimmy FortuneJimmy FortuneJimmy Fortune is an American country music singer. He hails from Lovingston, Virginia.-Biography:...
, Williams, Williams) – 3:22 - "Annie" (Clark, Williams, Williams) – 2:55
- "I'll Remember You Love in My Prayers/Liza Jane/The Old Stillhouse" ( Traditional) – 6:44
- "Saving Me a Place" (Williams, Williams) – 3:29
- "Lost Little Children" (Tim O'BrienTim O'Brien (musician)Tim O'Brien is an American country and bluegrass musician. In addition to singing, he plays guitar, fiddle, mandolin, banjo, bouzouki and mandocello...
, Williams, Williams) – 3:59
Personnel
- Linda Williams – vocalsSingingSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
, banjoBanjoIn the 1830s Sweeney became the first white man to play the banjo on stage. His version of the instrument replaced the gourd with a drum-like sound box and included four full-length strings alongside a short fifth-string. There is no proof, however, that Sweeney invented either innovation. This new...
, guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
, background vocalsBacking vocalistA backing vocalist or backing singer is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists... - Robin Williams – vocals, guitar, background vocals
- Mark Schatz – bassDouble bassThe double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...
- Rickie Simpkins – fiddleFiddleThe term fiddle may refer to any bowed string musical instrument, most often the violin. It is also a colloquial term for the instrument used by players in all genres, including classical music...
- Jim Watson – mandolinMandolinA mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It descends from the mandore, a soprano member of the lute family. The mandolin soundboard comes in many shapes—but generally round or teardrop-shaped, sometimes with scrolls or other projections. A mandolin may have f-holes, or a single...
, background vocals - Mike AuldridgeMike AuldridgeMike Auldridge is widely acknowledged as a premier resophonic guitar player. He played with The Seldom Scene for many years, creating a fusion of bluegrass with jazz, folk and rock.Auldridge started playing guitar at the age of 13...
– dobroDobroDobro is a registered trademark, now owned by Gibson Guitar Corporation and used for a particular design of resonator guitar.The name has a long and involved history, interwoven with that of the resonator guitar... - Mary Chapin Carpenter – background vocals
- Iris DeMent – background vocals
- Schuyler Fisk – background vocals
- Sissy Spacek – background vocals
- John Jennings – guitar
- Jimmy Gaudreau – mandolin, mandolaMandolaThe mandola or tenor mandola is a fretted, stringed musical instrument. It is to the mandolin what the viola is to the violin: the four double courses of strings tuned in fifths to the same pitches as the viola , a fifth lower than a mandolin...
- Kevin McNoldy – bass, background vocals
Production notes
- Produced, mixed and mastered by Kevin McNoldy
- Assistant producers - Robin & Linda Williams
- Engineered by Trip Faulconer, Kevin McNoldy and Matt Jagger
- Art direction and design by Carla Leighton
- Photography by Michael "Mick" Wilson