Ben Harper Ellen Harper - Childhood Home [CD]

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Ben Harper and his mother Ellen have collaborated to create \u2018Childhood Home\u2019, an absorbing, deeply personal collection of original songs set for release on May 5th 2014. The ten songs on \u2018Childhood Home\u2019, six written by Ben and four written by Ellen, explore the intricacies of family life with honesty and generous intimacy. \r
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The album\u2019s source can be directly traced to the pair\u2019s highly unusual, musical heritage. In 1958, Ben Harper\u2019s maternal grandparents established The Folk Music Center and Museum in Claremont, California. It was there, amid guitars, banjos, tablas, ukuleles and all manner of instruments from around the world, that a distinctively musical family took shape. Ellen Harper, a talented multi-instrumentalist in her own right, encouraged her family to use the store (which she still operates) as a musical laboratory. The center was a magnet for up-and-comers such as Ry Cooder, David Lindley and Taj Mahal, who became extended family members, providing master classes in creativity and philosophy, all of which the young Ben Harper soaked up like a sponge. \r
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The tender, artfully crafted story sketches on Childhood Home are laced with an undercurrent of love, wistfulness and, sometimes, pain. \u201cA house is a home even when there\u2019s ghosts / Even when you gotta run from the ones who love you most,\u201d Ben sings on the album opener \u201cA House Is A Home.\u201d On \u201cMemories of Gold,\u201d truthfulness cuts through sweet nostalgia: \u201cIn the winter she wants to be dancer / In springtime she wants to be a scribe /In summer she wants to be a painter / Come autumn the mother of a child.\u201d Likewise, the sacrifice and despair of domestic life is devotedly delivered on Ellen Harper\u2019s \u201cAltar of Love\u201d: \u201cHe always works late, determines his own fate / He\u2019s found his true match; he\u2019s found his soul mate / Sorry he says, sorry he feels / Can\u2019t help himself, he fell head over heels / And now she\u2019s another wife and a mother / Sacrificed on the altar of love.\u201d\r

1. A House Is A Home

2. City Of Dreams

3. Born To Love You

4. Heavyhearted World

5. Farmers Daughter

6. Memories Of Gold

7. Altar Of Love

8. Break Your Heart

9. Learn It All Again Tomorrow

10. How Could We Not Believe