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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