For fifteen years Audrey Auld’s internal direction setter has been tuned to forward. She formed her own record label, Reckless Records a year after her debut E.P., released five solo album, a live record, an acoustic collection of traditional Australian folk songs and a duet record with Bill Chambers (‘Looking Back to See-1999), which won Best Album in the year of its release from the Australian Independent CM Awards. In 2011, the Tasmania born Audrey Auld became a proud naturalized citizen of the U.S.A. In 2012, Audrey took a breath, laid out her first four recorded studio albums on her massive extended family-friendly dining room table and somehow picked twenty tracks for a compilation of her musical history.
The result of the effort is Resurrection Moon, a road trip full bag of songs that have come it
strike chords for her fans long after the last note fades. The listening experience for Resurrection Moon puts you out there in the audience nudging the buddy you came with and saying “I was hoping she’d do this one”. Audrey last studio album 2011’s ‘Come Find Me’ is too young to pick favorites but happily there were four older siblings that gladly handed over the fruits of their labors. The Fallen (2000), Losing Faith (2003), Texas (2005) and Lost Men & Angry Girls (2007) hand over eighteen tracks for the compilation. Joining in to take the tally up to double dimes are two new songs, the album titling “Resurrection Moon” and “Everything Be Alright”, both performed with fellow Down Under native and East Nashville neighbor Anne McCue.
Fair warning, you are going to run out of volume room while listening to Resurrection Moon. You know how that little kneejerk reaction that comes along when hearing music makes the volume turn up just a tad more as a response to that chill the sound sends up your spine. That is going to happen a lot on Resurrection Moon a lot. A lot. The new kid starts off in the lead role of track number one, and the song “Resurrection Moon” begins its magical journey. Mystical words, gently plucked notes and angelic harmonies courtesy of Audrey and co-producer of the track Anne McCue all move together across the song like a summer dress swaying in a breeze. Sharing some travel tales from her past, Audrey drags out the sonic movie projector to offer up images from time spent “Looking For Luckenbach”, on the
hunt with a slip of information “Last Seen in Gainesville”, reflecting on a “Bolinas” home that lives in her memory and resisting the urge to go anywhere (“Doin’ Well”). Audrey sings songs of family (“My Father”, “Hole In My Life”), love (“I’d Leave Me Too”, “Love You Like the Earth”) and her vision of life as Audrey Auld (“Next Big Nothing”, “Not Who I Am”). Emotions are the default setting for her words. There is really no way around it. Resistance is futile. Her ability to pass feelings through song is performed with the dedication of airborne allergies in the spring. If you are breathing, you will be infected. “Black Cloud” is the kind of friend you need on a bad day. Sitting quietly by your side, support comes in the form of the understanding that someone else has been through the shit you are standing in, “Losing Faith” is a moment of clarity that comes when the blinding light of love takes a bathroom break and “Jellyroll” high steps into a blues driven bomp that rolls around the love nest, shining its shuffle into the darkest corners.
Terry McArthur, co-author of the “Resurrection Moon” track says of the songs collected on the album that takes his co-write as a title, “These are Audrey’s marks of living, her scars and moments of revelation. Audrey writes the kind of songs that connect us to who we are and where we come from. Songs that leave you breathless with their beauty. Songs drawn from the deep well of the heart.”
Resurrection Moon collects songs from Audery Auld and gives them up as reminders for past friends and gifts for new ones. To receive more in the form of information, check out Audrey Auld's website.
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