Link: RATO RECORDS.
TITLE: GATHER ME
ARTIST: MELANIE
REF.: NEIGHBORHOOD RECORDS NRS 47001
FIRST EDITION: USA 1971, NovemberThe main thing about Melanie's work - and something that comes through very clearly on this album - is that strange combination she brought musically that is part of the basic feel and simplicity of the early American music, criss-crossed with the mid-European patch of her vocal delivery. It was a voice that was both frantic and gently bawdy so that at times she used to sound vulnerable and at others challenging.
GATHER ME is the album she was best pleased with, and it is certainly an album that takes a little longer to get into than her past efforts