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."

The Well Below
EP by
Boiled in Lead
Released2012
GenreCeltic rock/Celtic punk, folk punk, gypsy punk
Length20:43
LabelOmnium Records
Boiled in Lead chronology
Silver
(2008)		 The Well Below
(2012)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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.TitleComposerLength
1."Wedding Dress"Traditional6:21
2."The Well Below the Valley"Traditional5:01
3."Western Borders"John Vanorman4:41
4."Transylvanian Stomp"Traditional4:40
gollark: Really, basically all countries have laws which are far too complicated. People should *not* be bound by laws they cannot humanly read and comprehend.
gollark: …
gollark: Besides, they have a time machine, they can work out better ways to do things than killing people if they are at all competent.
gollark: What? I guess you could blame them for various religious wars. But generally if that sort of thing happens there are underlying tensions anyway.
gollark: Anyway, it's very mean so the frog person should not do that.

References
  1. Hintz, David (July 2012). "Boiled in Lead, The Well Below". FolkWorld (48).
  2. Eldridge, Cat (5 March 2018). "Boiled in Lead's The Well Below EP". Green Man Review. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
  3. Winick, Stephen D. (5 April 2013), Favorite Finds From Folk Alliance 2013: The Americans, Huffington Post, retrieved 9 June 2015
  4. "Boiled in Lead: The Well Below" at AllMusic. Retrieved 29 May 2018.


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