2010, Fire
VINYL FORMAT. This is the first record from U.S. minstrel-folk chanteuse Josephine Foster on Fire Records. Graphic As A Star is based upon the poems of the 19th-century American poet Emily Dickinson. Josephine lays stair-steppy melodies beneath a collection of Dickinson gems and sings them with a burnished soulfulness like the purple sunsets so often described in the poems. Massachusetts mountains, pearled spider-webs and folk hero William Tell, are all present in this unforgettable meeting of Dickinson's poesy and Foster's music, making a natural and inevitable whole. Ms. Foster is a Colorado-born artist whose songwriting draws from far corners of the musical spectrum to form a truly singular body of work. Her voice is sometimes compared to singers as disparate as Grace Slick, Shirley Collins or Tiny Tim, and it's certainly difficult to pigeonhole her varied music. She says her craft is strongly shaped by "Tin Pan Alley on my maternal side, rock and roll on the paternal side, Western folk music by birth, art-song and classical music via my adolescent passions."
Tracklisting
Disc 1
| 1 | Trust in the Unexpected |
| 2 | How Happy Is the Little Stone |
| 3 | She Sweeps with Many-Colored Brooms |
| 4 | Ah, Teneriffe! |
| 5 | Who Is the East? |
| 6 | They Called Me to the Window |
| 7 | This - Is the Land - The Sunset Washes |
| 8 | Like Mighty Foot Lights - Burned the Red |
| 9 | Exultation Is the Going |
| 10 | In Falling Timbers Buried |
| 11 | With Thee in the Desert |
| 12 | I See Thee Better - In the Dark |
| 13 | Your Thoughts Don't Have Words Every Day |
| 14 | My Life Had Stood - A Loaded Gun |
| 15 | Eden Is That Old-Fashioned House |
| 16 | Beauty Crowds Me Till I Die |
| 17 | I Could Bring You Jewels - Had I a Mind To |
| 18 | Wild Nights - Wild Nights! |
| 19 | Only a Shrine, But Mine |
| 20 | Tho' My Destiny Be Fustian |
| 21 | What Shall I Do - It Whimpers So |
| 22 | Heart! We Will Forget Him! |
| 23 | Strong Draughts of Their Refreshing Minds |
| 24 | Tell as a Marksman - Were Forgotten |
| 25 | Spider Holds a Silver Ball |
| 26 | Whoever Disenchants |
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