This was another review we were pretty pleased with, this reviewer gets what we do. Maybe its an east coast thing?

Paul & Liz's first two CDs were both very good and well received, yet this is even better. As it's not due for official release until early 2011, I'm not sure if it should be my album of the year for 2010 or 2011 – or both!

The album has well over an hour of playing time with 19 tracks, mostly traditional. There is a good mix of tracks with Paul and Liz singing together, mostly unaccompanied, Paul singing alone, sometimes accompanying himself on guitar or melodeon, and Liz singing on her own. It is these latter songs with just Liz's unaccompanied voice that makes this album stand out from the crowd. She sings amazing versions of Stowe Brow, Scarborough Sands, A Rich Farmer From Sheffield and others. Her singing of A Blacksmith Courted Me is easily the best that I've heard since that of Phoebe Smith in the late 60s or early 70s – simply beautiful. There are many other tracks that build this album into a most important collection such as a version of Judas, reputedly the oldest recorded ballad, and a couple of outstanding contemporary songs - Pilgrimage by Jess Arrowsmith and John Warner's Bring Out The Banners, which makes a superb final track to the album. If you only buy one CD this year, it must be this one.

Mardles winter 2010/11