Anaïs Mitchell: Hadestown – COMPACT DISCS

Title: Hadestown
Artist: Anaïs Mitchell
Label: Righteous Babe
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 748731707026
Genre: Folk
Release Date: 2010-03-09
Number of Discs: 1

Anais Mitchell’s new album Hadestown is proof that music still has the power to surprise and delight. For starters, the guest list includes some pretty well known names. And it’s an honest-to-god album, the kind whose songs tell a story from beginning to end-specifically, the ancient Greek myth of the poet Orpheus and his doomed quest to rescue his wife Eurydice from the underworld. Hadestown features a veritable who’s who of modern indie folk/rock: Justin Vernon of Bon Iver plays Orpheus; Greg Brown is Hades, lord of the underworld; and Ani Difranco plays Hades’ strong-willed, subversive wife, Persephone. Also on hand in is Ben Knox Miller of the Low Anthem as the messenger Hermes. Mitchell herself sings the part of Eurydice, the character whose (metaphoric) death propels Orpheus into ‘hadestown. Hadestown is both a lyrically and musically compelling story; one that is simultaneously dark, yet uplifting.

Tracks:
1.1 Wedding Song
1.2 Epic (Part One)
1.3 Way Down Hadestown
1.4 Songbird (Intro)
1.5 Hey, Little Songbird
1.6 Gone, I’m Gone
1.7 When the Chips Are Down
1.8 Wait for Me
1.9 Why We Build the Wall
1.10 Our Lady of the Underground
1.11 Flowers (Eurydice’s Song)
1.12 Nothing Changes
1.13 If It’s True
1.14 Papers (Hades Finds Out) [Instrumental]
1.15 How Long?
1.16 Epic (Part Two)
1.17 Lover’s Desire [Instrumental]
1.18 His Kiss, the Riot
1.19 Doubt Comes in
1.20 I Raise My Cup to Him