Artist: Emily Smith
Title: Too Long Away
Label: Shoeshine
Genre: Folk
Bitrate: 145kbit av.
Time: 00:42:16
Size: 46.53 mb
Rip Date: 2008-12-20
Str Date: 2008-00-00
1. Susnset Hymn 4:14
2. Caledonia 4:33
3. Audience Of Souls 4:10
4. As I Was A Wand'ring 3:52
5. May Colven 4:25
6. The Mermaid Of Galloway 5:48
7. The Bleacher Lassie O'Kelvinhaugh 3:17
8. Come Home Pretty Bird 3:18
9. Old Mortality 3:38
10. Winter Song 5:01
Release Notes:
The new folk scene in England is in pretty good shape, thanks
to newcomers such as Jackie Oates, but it could be argued that
the new Scottish scene is even healthier. Julie Fowlis and
Eddi Reader have shown the different ways in which traditional
influences are being reworked north of the border, and now
comes this impressively varied and thoughtful set from a young
singer and songwriter from Dumfries. Emily Smith plays piano
and accordion, and her cool, confident, no-nonsense treatment
of Robert Burns' As I Was Wandering, or the rousing folk-rock
treatment of May Colvin (a traditional song of lust, revenge
and death), is matched against a series of her own gentle and
reflective songs, which mostly stand up well against the older
material. She is certainly ambitious. Old Mortality is an
intriguingly sturdy story of a Dumfries stonemason who spent
his life maintaining the graves of those who opposed the
changes that King Charles I made to the Church of Scotland,
while Winter Song is a modern Scottish answer to Sandy Denny's
Who Knows Where the Time Goes? Smith deserves to become yet
another new folk celebrity.