Rating: 5/5
Review:
A very good album
The Tree is a fine
album from Lori McKenna. She has been a very classy songwriter and
performer for many years now, and this is among her best work, I
think.
The Tree is a set of
ten songs, largely about domesticity, family and relationships which
all have McKenna’s gift for a good tune and thoughtful, evocative
lyrics running through them. The Lot Behind St. Mary’s, for
example is one of the best evocations that I have heard of young love
and adult nostalgia for it, and there’s plenty more of the same
quality here. As always, she sings excellently in that distinctive,
haunting voice and the arrangements are slightly restrained which
brings out the best in every song.
I’ve always liked
Lori McKenna’s work and I think this is a first-rate album even by
her standards. Very highly recommended.
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