The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #102379   Message #2075161
Posted By: Lizzie Cornish
12-Jun-07 - 05:32 PM
Thread Name: The National Trust. Folk CD
Subject: RE: The National Trust. Folk CD
Next bit... :0)

"In 'Military Road' Judy Dinning and her band, Lucky Bags, create a delightful musical accompaniment, blending softly arpeggiated guitar and celtic harp patterns, on top of which beautifullly harmonised vocals weave a soothing tapestry. This song was written by Jez Lowe (HURRAY!!..that's me not the NT!)....whose group, The Bad Pennies,   Judy was a member of for a number of years. Another brilliant female vocalist is Maddie Southorn whose second album 'The Pilgrom Soul' features the goregous piano-led song 'River', whilst the Scottish singer Christine Kydd performs 'Cotton Mill Girls, a traditional protest song from America, where women workers in the cotton mills began striking during the mid-eighteenth century, due to poor working conditions.."