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Chris Bathgate — Eliza
Album: Salt Year
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7.1

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Released: 2011
Length: 4:45
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Was it sacred? Did you scream out?
Was he far eyed? With his heart out?
Oh, tell me it true. Oh, tell me it true.

Were the cottonwoods a drifting?
Were you silent? Were you singing?
What delicate tune? What delicate tune?

What secret did he tell yea?
Wild lilac and Diapensia.
Was he as far gone? With the engine light on?
Was it sacred? Did you scream out?
Did you kiss him? Was it light out?
What delicate hue? What delicate hue?
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this is pretty sweet. thank you!
Posted 1 year ago by lily34    [ Reply ]
love the song _ don’t like some of the production - sometimes simple is best
Posted 2 years ago by tm    [ Reply ]
This one just gets me. Beautiful.
Posted 4 years ago by jamesdwebb    [ Reply ]
There's a nice depth to the mix... I find it intriguing.
Posted 5 years ago by DocSeagullRedux    [ Reply ]
So good...
Posted 5 years ago by flecting    [ Reply ]
great album, thanks RP.
Posted 5 years ago by RabbitEars    [ Reply ]
This guy is well worth checking out. I've been listening to his music a lot since hearing this for the first time recently.
Posted 6 years ago by RabbitEars    [ Reply ]
lovely
Posted 6 years ago by RabbitEars    [ Reply ]
 MrsTom wrote:
Hopefully she answered 'none of your business'
 

I think she said "nunya!"
Posted 6 years ago by Proclivities    [ Reply ]
Good song brings memory back
Posted 6 years ago by helenahart    [ Reply ]
Americana, best of the New Breed
Posted 6 years ago by thewiseking    [ Reply ]
A pure 10. Sublime.
Posted 6 years ago by Tjerome    [ Reply ]
 poetdancer wrote:

As someone who has long identified as non-monogamous, I could say this is about a man speaking about his girlfriend as she's on a date (with someone else). I could also say this is about a parent singing about his daughter who is on a date. But that's what I like about this song.

 
Or an intimate conversation between friends about a lover....
Posted 6 years ago by dc_zee    [ Reply ]
 izycrzy wrote:
I think this song is about a fling. I think it gets at the tangled, complicatedness of desire vs commitment and monogamy. Anyone else get that? Or is that just me?

 
As someone who has long identified as non-monogamous, I could say this is about a man speaking about his girlfriend as she's on a date (with someone else). I could also say this is about a parent singing about his daughter who is on a date. But that's what I like about this song.
Posted 7 years ago by poetdancer    [ Reply ]
I think this song is about a fling. I think it gets at the tangled, complicatedness of desire vs commitment and monogamy. Anyone else get that? Or is that just me?
Posted 7 years ago by izycrzy    [ Reply ]
 sfyi2001 wrote:

                         'SHE' ?

 
An assumption when one reads the lyrics .... and the song's named "ELIZA" for heaven's sake.
Posted 7 years ago by unclehud    [ Reply ]
9/10...nice
Posted 7 years ago by tambu    [ Reply ]
 MrsTom wrote:
Hopefully she answered 'none of your business'

 

                         'SHE' ?
Posted 7 years ago by sfyi2001    [ Reply ]
Hopefully she answered 'none of your business'
Posted 8 years ago by MrsTom    [ Reply ]
romeotuma wrote:


Very interesting...  I like this...



Album Review: Chris Bathgate - Salt Year


Bathgate's music is dreamy, whiskey-colored folk floating above a careful arrangement of guitar and piano, used only to augment the songs rather than lead them. Bathgate playing acoustic must sound pretty much like this album; everything is designed to show off his voice, and his voice is in fine form here. He's distinctive enough to admire but subtle enough to allow your mind to wander through his songs.

"No Silver" is catchy and casual, loping at an easy pace through country-style guitar and some gentle percussion. "Poor Eliza" is a darkly quiet meditation on relationships: "It is what it is/what it is." Its apparent companion, "Eliza (hue)", sounds like Dispatch would if that band had a greater depth of emotion. Title track "Salt Year" is dreamy and sad, reflecting on lost loves in a melody that showcases the velvety texture of Bathgate's voice. Album closer "Everything (Overture)" is a lovely, six-minute dalliance through a bare soundscape colored at first only by a lone guitar and Bathgate's voice, featured in a quiet harmony that brings to mind the Once soundtrack. Gradually, horns and percussion flesh out the song into a fully loaded rambler. It's startling when the music ends; you expect it to just keep going on into the sunset.

Chris Bathgate owns the voice and the melancholy of someone twice his age, and Salt Year packages enough charm to spare. This is the perfect background music for writing, drawing, or maybe just dreaming away the afternoon.



 

 
sweet man   : )
Posted 8 years ago by hayduke2    [ Reply ]

 


Chris Bathgate (born April 21, 1982) is an American indie folk singer-songwriter and musician.
He is prominent in the Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti folk music scene in Michigan
.


Posted 8 years ago by Skydog    [ Reply ]
 Easyrider wrote:
Simply love this song,beautiful 😊

 


Posted 8 years ago by Easyrider    [ Reply ]
Lovely song.  Enjoyed the review (below) too.  Thanks all.
Posted 8 years ago by DaidyBoy    [ Reply ]
 From a color chart, I've picked  up one that cries out Camouflage
Posted 8 years ago by twoplain2sea    [ Reply ]
If you get a chance to see this guy live, do it.
Posted 8 years ago by dkwalika    [ Reply ]
gorgeous
Posted 8 years ago by cinco5    [ Reply ]
kinna nice ole timey feel here
Levon and the Boys would approve, i reckon 
Posted 8 years ago by thewiseking    [ Reply ]
Simply love this song
Posted 9 years ago by Easyrider    [ Reply ]
 FRP wrote:
The more I listen, the more I like it. 8->9

 
Sare here.  8 to 9 with this listen. 
Posted 9 years ago by AbileneTexas    [ Reply ]
The more I listen, the more I like it. 8->9
Posted 9 years ago by FRP    [ Reply ]
 Webfoot wrote:

I'll bring the Talisker.

 
You guys / gals rock 
Posted 9 years ago by RascalRhyme    [ Reply ]
Made me look up the song.  What does that equal?  A 7?
Posted 10 years ago by vsgpt    [ Reply ]
 Webfoot wrote:

I'll bring the Talisker.

 
Wait 'til Thursday, at least.
Posted 10 years ago by TerryS    [ Reply ]
 kingart wrote:
Not fine or unique music or lyrics -- but I'm falling in love with that voice. Sweeeeeet. Scottish? Pass me that single malt and let's have a party, baby. 

 
I'll bring the Talisker.
Posted 10 years ago by Webfoot    [ Reply ]
Solid 9 for me!
 
Posted 10 years ago by jules44    [ Reply ]
Was a strong 7 til the last annoying few minutes
Posted 10 years ago by MrsTom    [ Reply ]
Bumped from 7 to 8 with this listen
Posted 10 years ago by AbileneTexas    [ Reply ]
Sounds very much like Rachael Yamagata "Be Be Your Love." 
Posted 10 years ago by Geecheeboy    [ Reply ]
Not fine or unique music or lyrics -- but I'm falling in love with that voice. Sweeeeeet. Scottish? Pass me that single malt and let's have a party, baby. 
Posted 11 years ago by kingart    [ Reply ]
A perfect next song would be the Patty Griffin song "Beige Shoes". I think that's the title. 

:-) 
Posted 11 years ago by dachter1love    [ Reply ]
Is this song covered by someone else?
Posted 11 years ago by shakylegs    [ Reply ]
Not a bad tune, but the lyrics seem awfully painful; a combination of anger and regret and loss and bitterness.  But of course, these things happen.
Posted 11 years ago by unclehud    [ Reply ]
 Stingray wrote:

CHRIS, grand-grandson of BILLY!

Check it out - I am serious!

 
Or not. 

"Billy Bathgate" wasn't a bad movie, although "Ragtime" was better.  Hey, I didn't know Doctorow wrote "Book of Daniel" as well—thanks Stingray! Looks like Hollywood's taken care of Doctorow... 
Posted 11 years ago by kcar    [ Reply ]

:-) what a nice cover :-). and music, too.


Posted 11 years ago by mojcamojca77    [ Reply ]
Nice. Love it!
Posted 11 years ago by Webfoot    [ Reply ]
Like it.A Van Morrison type groove........
Posted 11 years ago by zivko    [ Reply ]
I just bought the album. It's all good!
Posted 12 years ago by nhamill    [ Reply ]
That is a beautiful composition.
Posted 12 years ago by htowncoog    [ Reply ]
 dew34 wrote:
Instant connection with this song-like a lot
  same.
wow.


Posted 12 years ago by lily34    [ Reply ]
Instant connection with this song-like a lot
Posted 12 years ago by dew34    [ Reply ]
Would like to hear more of him.
Posted 12 years ago by iTuner    [ Reply ]
 djengs wrote:
liking this more each time I hear it.
 
Ditto.
Posted 12 years ago by LifeIsMusic    [ Reply ]
liking this more each time I hear it.
Posted 12 years ago by djengs    [ Reply ]
Just love this song and what it does emotionally.
Posted 12 years ago by Easyrider    [ Reply ]
Almost but not quite an 8. Maybe some more listens could push it up, though.
Posted 12 years ago by plaid    [ Reply ]
Love it!
Posted 12 years ago by Easyrider    [ Reply ]
 romeotuma wrote:


Very interesting...  I like this...



Album Review: Chris Bathgate - Salt Year


Bathgate's music is dreamy, whiskey-colored folk floating above a careful arrangement of guitar and piano, used only to augment the songs rather than lead them. Bathgate playing acoustic must sound pretty much like this album; everything is designed to show off his voice, and his voice is in fine form here. He's distinctive enough to admire but subtle enough to allow your mind to wander through his songs.




 
 
Everybody in your Hotel-room read this review?
Posted 12 years ago by Stingray    [ Reply ]

CHRIS, grand-grandson of BILLY!

Check it out - I am serious!


Posted 12 years ago by Stingray    [ Reply ]
Album Review:  "This is the perfect background music for writing, drawing, or maybe just dreaming away the afternoon." —-romeo post

 Would that I could write music with as much intrinsic value. Oh I could write , but it would be considered a prelude to the mute button.


Posted 12 years ago by That_SOB    [ Reply ]
 skis wrote:
The hockey player?! Nice.
 
Andy Bathgate, hockey player.
Posted 12 years ago by number7    [ Reply ]

Ya wavelength near the end, just the fiddle.

The song itself, great stuff.


Posted 12 years ago by number7    [ Reply ]
The hockey player?! Nice.
Posted 12 years ago by skis    [ Reply ]
Chris, son of BILLY!
Posted 12 years ago by Stingray    [ Reply ]
 kcar wrote:
To more musically knowledgeable RPers: was that a waltz in a minor key? Like this, whatever it is. 

 
 
A waltz tempo yes. However the main progression is in a major key (F# according to the piano on my iPhone). Nice tune.

Posted 13 years ago by paranoidfloyd    [ Reply ]
Anyone hearing Van Morrison's "Wavelength"? Nice little tune.
Posted 13 years ago by horstman    [ Reply ]
To more musically knowledgeable RPers: was that a waltz in a minor key? Like this, whatever it is. 

 
Posted 13 years ago by kcar    [ Reply ]
A solid 5. The very definition thereof.
Posted 13 years ago by acolt    [ Reply ]
Very Andrew Bird-esque.

Nicely done.

Posted 13 years ago by donnyballgame    [ Reply ]