January 2009 RELEASES
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Sandy Boys Folk / FECD225 Fellside - $A28.30 
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Sara Grey is one of the finest exponents of American traditional music. Dirty Linen magazine described her as `…an outstanding interpreter of traditional ballads and folk songs. Her strong sweet voice sounds like it was carved from the Appalachian mountains.` This collection of songs again provides an insight to the roots of the more commercial music brought to prominence in recent years by the film Oh, Brother Where Art Thou and adds to the current vogue for Americana on CD. |
Ken Campbell`s Ideal Band Folk / FECD226 Fellside - $A30.10
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The re-formed Ideal Band bring together three of Scotland`s most respected and experienced musicians touring professionally throughout the UK and internationally: Ken Campbell ,Seylan Baxter , Gavin Paterson . In the 1980`s The Ideal Band was one of Scotland`s most successful and respected Celtic folk bands, following in the footsteps of Glasgow`s Bob Smith's Ideal Band of the 1930`s. The new line up brings a whole new unique sound and exciting approach to the world of Celtic music, blending Ken Campbell`s essentially Scottish songs with the very best of musicianship. |
Take Your Own Roads Folk / FECD227 Fellside - $A28.30
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Heritage, history and topical songs from the band which displays literate, hook-laden tunes and spot-on harmonies |
Looking Both Ways Folk / WGS369CD Wildgoose Records - $A28.30
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UK folk singer-songwriter releases his second album on Wildgoose Records. On this album, George views things from multiple perspectives, each with their validity yet each also limited in the view they can afford - observing ourselves from the outside. |
Four Across Folk / WGS370CD Wildgoose Records - $A28.30
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The album contains a very varied selection of dance tunes from The ceilidh band English Rebellion. Some tunes are traditional, some more lately written, some foreign and two songs; all are performed with a wonderful infectious exuberance. The more lately written compositions include works from John Sommerville, Colin Cater, Wim Poesen, John Kirkpatrick and Flos Headford. |
Susie Fair Folk / WGS361CD Wildgoose Records - $A28.30
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In the middle of 2008 and during the recording of her fourth album Susie Fair (first album for Wild Goose records in England) Maggie Sand and Sandragon was born with Mark Powell on guitar, mandola, hurdy-gurdy and bouzouki, Malcolm Bennett on woodwinds, and Will Hughes on percussion. The band developed its trademark blend of traditional songs and hi-energy dance tunes from the medieval and Renaissance eras. (The dragon being the symbol which is found in both the English traditional tales of St George & the Dragon, and the mythological dragon legends of medieval times.) |
Both Sides Then / TOPIC582 - $A
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Peter Bellamy`s passions, from the great English traditional singers to the prisoners of Parchman Farm, the mountain music of the Appalachians, the Rolling Stones and especially the poems of Rudyard Kipling, were too wide-ranging to be tied to any one sort of music. Both Sides Then,originally released in 1979 and generally considered to be his finest solo album, is a superb integration of his varied musical interests, drawing on English, Irish and Appalachian traditions. Bellamy, who sadly died in 1991, left a remarkable body of recording which continues to inspire musicians around the world. |
Empire And Love FOLK / ECC002 ECC - $A33.00
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The release of The Imagined Village marked one of the most ambitious reinventions of the English folk tradition. Simon Emmerson, Martin and Eliza Carthy and the team have built on the success of the first album with the follow up Empire and Love. |
