Weaver Of Visions: The Kate Wolf Anthology

Weaver Of Visions: The Kate Wolf Anthology

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Ahead of her time and somehow beyond time, Northern California singer-songwriter Kate Wolf now has a collection to represent all her craft, wisdom, and radiance. Produced and compiled by Wolf's son Max, the 35 songs on Weaver of Visions include every track from the previous anthology, Gold in California (less only "Full Time Woman" and the antinuke ballad "The Sun Is Burning"), and adds 10 live performances and two previously unavailable songs. The selection is impeccable, focusing on what Wolf's guitarist Nina Gerber has called "Kateness": an intimacy born of hard times, a communion forged in love's fire, a delicate soulfulness that few of her acoustic-oriented peers--Emmylou Harris and Lucinda Williams come to mind--have captured. Even if you own every Wolf album, Weaver of Visions will be a revelation--from the sparkling remastering to the elegant photographs to the intelligent, 42-page liner notes to the songs and voice that will tear out your heart, then mend and renew it once again. --Roy Kasten

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Weaver Of Visions: The Kate Wolf Anthology
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Tracks:

Although I've Gone Away
Green Eyes (Live)
Emma Rose
Like A River (Live)
Old Jerome
These Times We're Living In (Live)
Sweet Love
Across The Great Divide
Brother Warrior
Unfinished Life
Eyes Of A Painter (Live)
Safe At Anchor
Give Yourself To Love (Live)
The Trumpet Vine
Slender Thread
Muddy Roads
Early Morning Melody
Telluride

Tracks:

Here In California
Looking Back At You (Live)
The Minstrel
Picture Puzzle (Live)
Cornflower Blue (Live)
The Wind Blows Wild
You're Not Standing Like You Used To
Carolina Pines
Medicine Wheel
Two-Way Waltz
The Lilac & The Apple
Shadow Of A Life
She Rises Like The Dolphin
Poet's Heart
Friend Of Mine (Live)
Pacheco/The Redtail Hawk (Live)
Back Roads

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Ahead of her time and somehow beyond time, Northern California singer-songwriter Kate Wolf now has a collection to represent all her craft, wisdom, and radiance. Produced and compiled by Wolf's son Max, the 35 songs on Weaver of Visions include every track from the previous anthology, Gold in California (less only "Full Time Woman" and the antinuke ballad "The Sun Is Burning"), and adds 10 live performances and two previously unavailable songs. The selection is impeccable, focusing on what Wolf's guitarist Nina Gerber has called "Kateness": an intimacy born of hard times, a communion forged in love's fire, a delicate soulfulness that few of her acoustic-oriented peers--Emmylou Harris and Lucinda Williams come to mind--have captured. Even if you own every Wolf album, Weaver of Visions will be a revelation--from the sparkling remastering to the elegant photographs to the intelligent, 42-page liner notes to the songs and voice that will tear out your heart, then mend and renew it once again. --Roy Kasten

Customer Reviews:

Great Literature, Delivered Very Elegantly.......2007-04-08

I am 64 and have been listening to various types of music for 50 years but only recently discovered Kate Wolf. She immediately became my favorite singer/songwriter. It seems that her music is the music I have always been looking for but had never found. I agree with another reviewer who noted that one can listen to Kate almost continually without tiring of her. I was very saddened to learn of her untimely passing just when she was reaching her pinnacle.

I have now acquired almost all of Kate's recordings and this album contains most of her best songs but a few are missing like "Love Still Remains" and "Great Love of my Life".

All Kate Wolf fans should watch the "Evening in Austin" video to see the refined professional she had become just a few months before she came down with leukemia.

Great cut........2007-03-09

As someone who attended Kate's funeral years ago, I remember walking into the service in Marin with "Give yourself to love" playing over the PA system. This is a great album that defined a generation of activists, new age values, and a group of interesting people.

A new fan of Kate Wolf.......2007-02-23

I'd heard Kate's name from time to time, over the years, but never really got to know her music - until now, with this compilation.

As one of the other reviewers said, I'm also curious why she isn't better known.

Yes, there is a bit of similarity among the songs, but by becoming familiar with them one can hear and feel all the differences. Spread the word, and spread her music!

The Enduring Mystery of Kate Wolf.......2006-07-04

I first discovered Kate Wolf's music twenty years ago while traveling the Mendocino Coast. It's not really about Northern California, but like a fine wine it has a certain regional stamp to it which adds to its quality. In time I bought all of her CD's and her music, which gradually intertwined and merged with my life until it seemed as if the songs were a personal gift from her to me, which I eventually learned was an illusion held in common by just about all of her fans. And in all those years, whenever I brought up the subject of Kate Wolf with my friends in Southern California, I invariably got a blank stare in return, followed by the question, "Who's Kate Wolf?"

The mystery of Kate Wolf is why her enormous popularity is still mainly confined to Northern California, why such a great artist has only produced twelve reviews on this page, and why this quintessential Kate Wolf album isn't even among Amazon's top ten thousand selling CD's.

I don't know how many (if any)other musicians have an annual music festival dedicated to their memory, but Kate Wolf does and last week up near the Redwoods, the 11th annual such festival took place. The music was bluegrass, folk, and singer/songwriters with only an occasional Kate Wolf number thrown in, but her spirit was invoked from the stage more than once, and the festival closed out with the singing of one of Kate's signature songs, "Give Yourself to Love." The audience stood and sang along just as if it were a national anthem (and maybe it should be.)

So if this is your genre, if Kate's advice to "Give Yourself to Love" makes sense to you, or if her gentle warning that "We've Only Got These Times We're Living In" rings true, give her a listen, and you too can become part of California's best kept secret.

Here in California..........2004-05-04

Nobody has ever captured the spirit of the rural West in music better than Kate Wolf. This generous set will satisfy almost anybody but those who have to have it all; for those who are just new to this astist, this is the best place to start - all killer, no filler. Some tracks are immediately addictive, while others reveal their pleasures more gradually.

Kate's songs are a celebration of passion, humanity, nature, healing, friendship, love, and much more. Her partners supported her with expert skills and arrangments that explored all the roots of American music, yet her style, concept, and delivery were completely her own. If Weaver of Visions is your first introduction to Kate, it may be a revelation.

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