Penny_Lang-Gather_Honey-2001-JUST

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MP3/FLAC

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JUST

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65,58 MB

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18

Date

2006-06-12

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Artist.......: Penny Lang
Album........: Gather Honey
Label........: Borealis
Genre........: Folk
Catnr........: BCD 137
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: Jun-08-2006
str.date.....: 2001
quality......: VBR/44,1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: www.pennylang.com

track  title                                          time

 01.   In The Pines                                  02:36
 02.   Gather Honey                                  03:06
 03.   Broke Down Girl                               02:04
 04.   Come Across To You                            02:35
 05.   This Is All There Is                          04:08
 06.   Trouble In Mind                               03:49
 07.   Start Again                                   04:57
 08.   Howl You Winds                                03:13
 09.   No PLace Left To Go                           02:19
 10.   Lady Nancy                                    02:40
 11.   Three O'Clock Ride                            05:17
 12.   To Find A Way                                 03:13
 13.   Give It Up Or Let Me Go                       02:58
 14.   Bright Lights And Promises                    03:21
 15.   Senses Of Your Leave                          02:27
 16.   Gather Honey                                  04:19
 17.   Waiting for a Train                           02:25
 18.   Papa Don't                                    02:12

                                            Runtime  57:39 min
                                            Size     65,5 MB


Release Notes:

Review by Rick Anderson
For anyone who was an adolescent during the '60s,
the cover photo of an earnest-looking young woman
in a poncho strumming an acoustic guitar may bring
a warm sense of nostalgia. Those who were born
during that decade tend, when faced with such an
image, to roll their eyes. But those who approach
this album expecting empty earnestness and
hippie-dippy platitudinizing will be pleasantly
surprised. There are no misguided attempts to cure
the world's ills through songs lifted from someone
else's misunderstood folk culture; Penny Lang takes
contemporary urban folk and blues songs and
delivers them in a voice both powerful and
unaffected. Listening to this chronological
document, which opens with her earliest recording
from 1963 and ends with recordings made in the late
'70s, you hear her voice grow in strength and
distinctiveness, but she never lets her own
stylistic choices get in the way of the songs
themselves. (In that sense, she has more in common
with Ella Fitzgerald than with, say, Buffy
Sainte-Marie, even though her voice is closer in
quality to the latter than the former.) Highlights
here include that first recording, a hair-raising
rendition of "In the Pines," and a dated but
charming cover of Paul Lauzon's "Start Again."

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