Ballads of Living and Dying

by Marissa Nadler

Ballads of Living and Dying cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 11 November 2004
  • Label: Eclipse
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 36:44
  • Community rating: 3.65/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The American singer-songwriter's debut album introduces her highly distinctive, gothic approach to traditional Americana. Utilizing delicate fingerpicking, chilling multi-tracked vocal harmonies, and an overwhelming sense of reverb, the stark recordings breathe eerie new life into timeless themes of murder, ghosts, and doomed romance.

Genres

Descriptors: Acoustic, atmospheric, death, folk, acoustic, storytelling, quiet, ballad

Tracklist

  1. Fifty Five Falls (5:01)
  2. Hay Tantos Muertos (2:51)
  3. Stallions (3:11)
  4. Undertaker (2:17)
  5. Box of Cedar (4:39)
  6. Bird Song (3:07)
  7. Mayflower May (3:21)
  8. Days of Rum (4:20)
  9. Virginia (2:39)
  10. Annabelle Lee (5:15)

Credits

  • Pablo Neruda - words by
  • Kendra Flowers - vocals [harmony vox]
  • Edgar Allan Poe - words by

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