One Way Productions · November 2002
Let
Nine songs of aching melancholy, courage and tenderness, produced by Natalie Flanagan and David Minehan at Woolly Mammoth.
- Format
- Album
- Tracks
- 9
- Producer
- David Minehan
The Record
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The One Way Edition
Grace Under Pressure
Natalie Flanagan had watched David Minehan with The Neighborhoods from the audience at Pearl Street in 1983. Nearly two decades later, Minehan engineered, mixed and co-produced Let at Woolly Mammoth, bringing his guitar instincts to songs that depended on restraint as much as force.
Flanagan sang and played guitar. Mark Bowden supplied guitars, bass and harmonica; Zoux played keyboards; John Lynch played drums. Mini Mouse added guitars and percussion, Brett Rosenberg played lead on “Grace Under Pressure,” Larry Dersch played drums on “Strong,” and Charlie Leger, Emily Grogan and Chuck White contributed vocals. John Locke mastered the album in Seattle; Charlie Leger handled art direction and photography, with disc photographs by H. Brooks Whelan Jr.
The album received contemporary reviews from Jonathan Perry in the Boston Globe, Robin Vaughan in the Boston Phoenix, E. J. Johnson in Candy for Bad Children and Anna Maria Stjärnell in Collected Sounds. Its warm arrangements and indirect language invited the listener into what David Wildman called “Natalie’s world”—a place where melancholy was tempered by courage and tenderness.
David Wildman’s Original Note
Preserved from the original One Way release page.
“Feeling a warm glow of sweet sadness. I’ve just stepped out of Natalie’s world.” Wildman described a place where aching melancholy was tempered with courage and tenderness, where the words remained partly under the radar and the listener had to enter with respect and understanding.
He heard in Flanagan’s delivery the casual cool of Chrissie Hynde and Bob Dylan, but argued that the meanings were never simply handed over. “It’s up to you to do the listening.”
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