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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 ...
Advantages: Dylan fans will love this. Disadvantages: None-Dylan fanes my not.
Excellent sound quality thought-out. I think this is one of the best Live Dylan I have heard.
Starts with the wonderful Tombstone blues-Clear messages great vocals.
Then, settling goes into the romantic Shooting stars.
Bursting into All along the watchtower followed by the times they are a changing’ makes you want to stand up and sway from side to side and join in with the singing.
John Brown is harrowing; you can do nothing else but listen to ... ...then gets faster for Rainy day woman-this change in tempo is a real pleasure.
A beautiful love song follows, this is really nice live and clear.
Dignity is interesting-you have to just listen to it and enjoy.
Knockin’ on heavens door is nothing unusual or exiting, just good music, and lyrics.
Dylan finishes with God on our side a great finish to a great concert. ...
Advantages: Kate's fabulous northern singing voice Disadvantages: None, in my opinion.
Kate Rusby's singing voice is a very honest one, revealing her northern accent, which I think is wonderful in this age of Pseudo-American pop singers. She manages to convey both complexity and simplicity in her well-crafted songs - which draw on traditional lyrics and original music.
The album opens with guitar used almost percussively in the intro to The Good Man - a highly unique, humorous and ambigulous song (traditional lyrics), and works its ... ...think?) xylophone... don't quote me!
Unfortunately, the album wanes a little in the middle, but the first and last few songs are memorable and lovely.
I have to say I haven't liked everything I've heard Kate do (slushy duets with Ronan spring to mind) but this album was the first I heard of her and a good introduction. I have yet to see Kate and band perform live, but would very much like to.
Good stuff. ...
OPINION
I first heard of Leonard Cohen at a friends house as a record, the song was "Suzanne" and I loved it. I remembered the name and to my delight I found his CD in the Woolworths price crunch a while back now. His songs are so calming but have lyrics that explore ideas of religion, isolation, sexuality and complex interpersonal relationships, so as calm as they seem their underlying provocations are deeply moving.
ARTIST
Leonard Cohen is a ... ...rooted in European folk music, his 1970's music encompasses pop, chaberet and world music and since the 1980's his high baritone voice took on more low registers, often accompanied by electronic synthesizers and female backing singers. His writing has influenced lots of singer-songwriters and more than a thousand renditions of his work have been recorded. TRACK LIST
1. Suzanne 2. Sisters Of Mercy 3. So Long Marianne 4. Bird On The Wire 5. Lady Midnight ...
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 ...
