Rating: 4/5
Review:
Still a very decent album
I was trying to be far too cool and into Traditional Folk
Music (with capital letters, of course) to buy a Mary Hopkin album in 1971,
while probably just being a pretentious 17-year-old pillock. Such are the follies of youth, but I tried
this now mainly because of the cast list of excellent musicians: Ralph McTell,
Dave Cousins, the brilliant Danny Thompson and so on, plus Tony Visconti as
producer. It's not a classic and sounds
slightly dated in places, but it's a good album.
Mary Hopkin was a good singer. She's not one of the greats, but she had a
very good voice and there's far more to her delivery than the rather winsome,
innocent, once-upon-a-time-there-was-a-tavern impression she has left on a lot
of us. There is some good material here
and she delivers it very well; There's Got To Be More sounds sincere and pretty
powerful, for example (and also features some terrific bass playing from Danny
Thompson) and there is plenty more on this album to make me take notice.
If you're interested in the more folky sound of the early
70s, I think this is well worth a try.
There are some good songs sung by a more-than-decent singer, with
excellent backing musicians and production.
Recommended.
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