The Well Below
The Well Below is a four-song EP by Twin Cities-based Celtic rock band Boiled in Lead, its eighth collection of new material.[4] It includes a cover of Appalachian folk singer Roscoe Holcomb's "Wedding Dress" as well as the band's take on Irish songwriter Christy Moore's murder ballad "The Well Below the Valley."
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| Released | 2012 | |||
| Genre | Celtic rock/Celtic punk, folk punk, gypsy punk | |||
| Length | 20:43 | |||
| Label | Omnium Records | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| FolkWorld |   [1] |
| Green Man Review | (positive)[2] |
| Huffington Post | (positive)[3] |
Critical reception to the album was positive. Huffington Post writer Stephen Winick called the band "a cooler, more American alternative to the Pogues, more skilled at their instruments, with more pure traditional music on one end and more rock electricity on the other," and praised their "hair-raising" and "foreboding" take on "The Well Below the Valley" and "rich, complex arrangement" of the Holcomb song.[3] David Hintz of FolkWorld stated that the album "has the exotic flair we [have] all come to expect from this band."[1]
Track listing
| No. | Title | Composer | Length |
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| 1. | "Wedding Dress" | Traditional | 6:21 |
| 2. | "The Well Below the Valley" | Traditional | 5:01 |
| 3. | "Western Borders" | John Vanorman | 4:41 |
| 4. | "Transylvanian Stomp" | Traditional | 4:40 |
References
- Hintz, David (July 2012). "Boiled in Lead, The Well Below". FolkWorld. No. 48.
- Eldridge, Cat (5 March 2018). "Boiled in Lead's The Well Below EP". Green Man Review. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
- Winick, Stephen D. (5 April 2013), Favorite Finds From Folk Alliance 2013: The Americans, Huffington Post, retrieved 9 June 2015
- "Boiled in Lead: The Well Below" at AllMusic. Retrieved 29 May 2018.