Kris Delmhorst : Since You Went Away
Kris Delmhorst s album, Strange Conversation, was something of a departure for her, since she has never been noted for cowriting songs. The music was her own, but each cut features the words of a collaborator as written by that person, or adapted by Delmhorst. In fact if you were seeking a subtitle for this collection, one possibility could be Kris The Dead Poets In terms of age, Delmhorst s inspirations range from the oldest Virgil (b. 70 BC, d. 19 BC), albeit by way of Hermann Broch s The Death Of Virgil, through to recent contemporaries America s E. E. Cummings (b. 1894, d. 1962), and England s Poet Laureate John Masefield (b. 1878, d. 1967). This song, Since You Went Away, is adapted from the words of James Weldon Johnson (18711938), who in 1922 edited The Book of American Negro Poetry, which the Academy of American Poets calls a major contribution to the history of AfricanAmerican Kris Delmhorst s Strange Conversation is a brilliant achievement, a recording th
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