About Farewell

by Alela Diane

About Farewell cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 25 June 2013
  • Label: Rusted Blue
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 33:00
  • Community rating: 3.78/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Exploring the emotional wreckage of her recent divorce and creative transition, 'About Farewell' represents a somber, highly introspective return to her acoustic roots. Released via her independent Rusted Blue label, the self-produced record is a beautifully bare-boned statement built around sparse guitar picking, subtle woodwinds, and soft strings. The songs deliver an exceptionally vulnerable, bittersweet, and honest diary of heartbreak, emotional closure, and rebirth.

Genres

Descriptors: Folk, breakup, folk, acoustic, female-vocals, ballad, storytelling

Tracklist

  1. Colorado Blue (3:29)
  2. About Farewell (3:20)
  3. The Way We Fall (5:04)
  4. Nothing I Can Do (2:24)
  5. Lost Land (3:26)
  6. I Thought I Knew (2:08)
  7. Before The Leaving (2:56)
  8. Hazel Street (3:10)
  9. Black Sheep (3:53)
  10. Rose & Thorn (3:10)

Credits

  • Various - primary artist
  • Alela Diane - primary artist, performer, written-by
  • David Hartley - bass, drums
  • Tom Menig - bass, guitar
  • Galen Cohen - cello
  • Heather Woods Broderick - flute, keyboards
  • Neal Morgan - percussion
  • John Askew - recorded by, mixed by, electric guitar, bass, mellotron
  • Ben Landsverk - viola
  • Kelly Christ - viola, violin

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