Folk Roots
I seem to be in a folk/roots music frame of mind at the
moment. No particular reason. It’s what I have been listening to and that’s
what I write about – a more straightforward and apt cause and effect for this
blog [see previous Queen post].
This album is as simple and traditional and excellent as it
gets. Stephanie Hladowski has a tangy vocal so it can sear the ear but I like
it. Chris Joynes plucks mainly guitar but also pumps a harmonium and his understated
playing provides a consistently firm platform for the singing. The 11 traditional
songs are all gathered from, apparently, Cecil Sharp House, home of the English
Folk Dance and Song Society [and where the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library is
kept as I have just been reading on their web site], and this resource speaks
volumes for the temperance and perhaps even reverence of the performances. That
said, they still have a modern feel and I am totally unable to explain that
paradox. So won’t.
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