Advantages: Original, fresh yet familiar at the same time - immensely enjoyable Disadvantages: There's only twelve tracks on the album!
If it wasn't for "The Hollow Of Morning" by Gemma Hayes", the candidate for my favourite album purchased during 2008 might well be Eilen Jewell's "Letters From Sinners And Strangers" which was released the year before. Whilst it was firmly on my radar since it was originally put out, I never actually got around to buying the CD until I saw Eilen and her band play at The Band Room in the midst of rural North Yorkshire back in August last year. To ... ...would be a major understatement - I had to have the album there and then and also bought her debut album "Boundary County" at the same time.
Her band lines up as follows: Eilen (rhymes with "Healin'") provides the vocals and plays acoustic guitar, Jason Beek plays drums and percussion, Jerry Miller is the wizard on the electric guitar (and is no slouch with the acoustic variety either), Johnny Sciascia's forte is the upright bass whilst Daniel Kellar ...
graeme10 31.01.2009
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