Artist : Andrew King
Album : The Amfortas Wound
Year : 2003
Genre : Folk
Source : CD
Label : Athanor
Catalog : ATNR022
Rls.Date : 2006-06-11
Bitrate : VBRkbps
Size : 75 MB
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1. The Week Before Easter 3:50
2. Worcester City 3:43
3. The Wild Wild Berry 5:10
4. Down In The Meadow 2:03
5. Lord Thomas And Fair Ellanor 10:27
6. The Prentice Boy 5:52
7. Cruel Lincoln 10:29
8. Love Henry 5:07
9. The Knight Templar's Dream 6:08
10. Gethsemene 3:52
11. Sweet Williams Ghost 8:16
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64:57
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Narsheptha on 26 January 2006
For lovers of traditional English and Scottish Popular Ballads, this is a
must own. King's voice is definitely something to get used to, though.
Despite being a ballad scholar and very excited about the release, it took me
a good three or four listens to really let it grow on me. His distinctive
voice can sound very odd, at times, mainly because he's trying his British
best to sing these songs 100% authentically, including an over-accentuated
Scottish brogue and bits of archaic Old and Middle English pronunciation,
when necessary.
I'll have to admit that I've never found anything drone-heavy to be all that
appealing, but if you put it behind a well-sung traditional ballad as King
does, I'm all over it. Seriously, it's well worth the odd stylistic choices
that King makes to experience the over-all effect.