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Thread #117477 Message #2530160
Posted By: Dave the Gnome
02-Jan-09 - 09:46 PM
Thread Name: Review: Seven for old England
Subject: Review: Seven for old England
One of the big advantages of working nights occasionaly is those times when there is little to do but wait for a support call that never comes. If I hadn't been on nights tonight and in that situation I would never have got the chance to listen to this wonderful album by Maddy Prior. I share a laptop with the family but on nights it is exclusively mine so I can surf, watch DVDs and listen to music; it's a tough life in Unix support you know... Anyhow, I was very pleasantly surprised to find this CD had been left in the drive. I have been listening to it ever since.
I am huge Maddy fan and love her work with Steeleye, the Carnival band and all sorts of other collaborations. This one is a bit different. A solo album, albeit with cracking good backing from Benji Kirkpatrick and Giles Lewin amongst others, including Benji's Dad! Not quite back to the Prior/Hart days but certainly back to 'roots' at least. The sound is distinctly Maddy, and although the songs are not all traditional English, the delivery certainly is. A grand reminder of why I liked folk music in the first place.
I would recommend it to anyone and urge all and sundry to rush out to your local record store now, buy it and see if we can knock some of the X-factor warblers and wannabees off their perches.
Cheers
DeG