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Ding Dong on High Street

Advantages: Enjoyable listening
Disadvantages: Will not appeal to everybody

...It is called Voices at the door. The CD has 17 tracks. All are unaccompanied except the last one and I will say more about this later. The tracks are:- 1. How Beautiful Upon The Mountains 2.08 2. While Shepherds Watched/Hail Chime On 3.29 3. Curly Hark/Newtons 3.16 4. While Shepherds Were Watching 2.36 5. Holy Well 4.36 6. Bodmin Wassail 2.27 7. Barwell Old Hark 3.39 8. Time To Remember The Poor 4.13 9. While Shepherds Watched/Liverpool 2.31 ...
...12. George Dunn's Wassail 3.00 13. First Good Joy Our Mary Had 4.04 14. Star Of Bethlehem 3.51 15. Adam Lay Ybounden/Deo Gracias 1.52 16. Jacob's Well 3.32 17. Ding Dong Merrily On High 3.12 Total running time is 54.13 minutes The tune for track 17 is a rather old one first published in 1589 though these words were not written for it until 1924. There is a booklet giving details of the performers and details of the carols themselves included ...

Coloneljohn 12.12.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Voices At The Door (Midwinter Songs And Carols) - Various Artists

Confessions of a Folk Music fan

Advantages: Beautiful voice, incredible harmonies, every song tells a story
Disadvantages: None

Having pretty wide musical tastes, I enjoy all sorts of music from rock and jazz to country, but I’ve always had a passion for folk music and used to be a regular visitor to the local folk clubs in our area before we had kids and stopped going out for about 15 years. At this stage I'd like to make it clear that I don't sport a tangled beard, own badly fitting Aran sweaters, wear sandals with socks or break-out in unaccompanied song when I'm ...
...folk music, traditional and modern, Irish and Scottish, with perhaps a preference for American and in particular singer songwriters such as Paul Simon, John Prine and Leonard Cohen. One of the best of my recent CD acquisitions is a cd by singer/songwriter Kate Rusby who I believe has an abundance of talent and is capable of making the folk genre more popular than its been for a long while. Kate Rusby was born and raised in Yorkshire, and whilst I’ve ...

Merv 21.05.2003 · Read full review
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Review of Little Lights - Kate Rusby

I am stretched on your grave

Advantages: a few truly superb songs
Disadvantages: A few weaker links.

Rather a morbid title I realise, but it is in fact one of the tracks from what has proved to be quite a good album. Being something of a folk devotee, I had approached Kate Rusby with scepticism - she's 'made it' into normal music outlets, which must mean she has sold out and just done an album of easy listening? Well not actually quite true. This is certainly the sort of album that non-folkies might get along with, but its true to some good traditional ...
...'proper' folk - spend any time in a folk club and you soon find that most of the traditional songs are about sex and/or death (except for the ones about fishing, but there it is.) "Sir Eglamore" an old, and rather silly song about a knight and a dragon, set to music by Kate. It has all the 'lanky down dillies' you could possibly ask for in a folk song, (I have no idea how anyone sings anything like that whilst keeping a straight face.) "As I roved ...

Bryn_Pearson 20.06.2002 · Read full review
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Review of Hourglass - Kate Rusby

Can't Fight the Moonlight

Advantages: Nice songs, great voice, duets
Disadvantages: None

...win the Grammy Award for Best New Artist. Since her debut, Rimes has won many major industry awards, which include two Grammys, three ACMs, one CMA, twelve Billboard Music Awards, and one American Music award. In addition, Rimes has also released ten studio albums and four compilation albums through her record label of 13 years, Asylum-Curb, and placed over 40 singles on American and international charts since 1996. She has sold over 50 million albums ...
...with touselled hair. The Best of LeAnn Rimes is a greatest hits album. It was released in 2004. It is the international edition of LeAnn Rimes Greatest Hits, released in the US in 2003. The album peaked at #2 on the UK charts, becoming her highest-charting album there. Worldwide, album has sold over 2.5 million copies. One of my favourite tracks on the album is the first song, Can't Fight the Moonlight. I think this is probably because it was featured ...

Spottydog11 06.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Best Of LeAnn Rimes, The - LeAnn Rimes

Stronger - Carlene Carter

Advantages: Excellent vocals, some really catchy songs, great instruments
Disadvantages: Occasional hints of Shania Twain which scare me

...Change Your Heart 4. Bring Love 5. I'm So Cool 6. Spider Lace 7. On to You 8. Judgment Day 9. Break my Little Heart in Two 10. It Takes One to Know You 11. Light of Your Love 12. Stronger ...

fizzytom 04.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Stronger - Carlene Carter