Wednesday, 18 October 2017

Cara Dillon - Wanderer


Rating: 4/5

Review:
A lovely album



This is a lovely album.  Cara Dillon is a very fine singer and she has put together a collection of beautiful songs in largely acoustic arrangements which suit both the songs and her voice very well.

The songs are mainly traditional, with just a couple of (very good) original pieces and they are all very well done.  It takes a brave artist to tackle Blacwater Side, for example, given the greatness of existing versions by Bert Jansch and others, but this is terrific; like every song here it is heartfelt, thoughtful and musically excellent.

If I have a quibble with Wanderer, it's that it's a little relentlessly melancholy, with a preponderance of songs of heartbreak, betrayal and yearning for home.   Each track is lovely of itself, but as an album I think it could do with just a little more of an emotional lift in places.  Listening to it all through it can begin to sound just a little samey – which is a shame for such lovely music.

Nonetheless, this is a fine album of lovely songs, excellently performed.  Recommended.

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