CD-Charts Position 1
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My Mother's Children

by: Mary Hampton

Release Date August 04, 2008
Just before her first time playing at the Greenman Festival this year, Mary is launching her debut album in
London at Cafe Oto on August 11th - (cd / Lp retail on 4th Aug)

After a couple of homemade self-release EPs of traditional
English folk songs (called simply Book One and Book Two) and a couple of years on the road playing great shows
around the UK and in America alongside the likes of Alasdair Roberts, Diane Cluck, Tom Brosseau and Baby Dee,
her first full-length album of original songs, 'My Mother's Children', is released in record shops on August 4th on
Navigator Records and this is what the reviewers have made of it so far:

'terrifying and gorgeous....unusual and strong.....epic ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 2
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My Mother's Children [VINYL + BONUS CD ALBUM] [VINYL]

by: Mary Hampton

Release Date August 25, 2008
Just before her first time playing at the Greenman Festival this year, Mary is launching her debut album in
London at Cafe Oto on August 11th - (cd / Lp retail on 4th Aug)

After a couple of homemade self-release EPs of traditional
English folk songs (called simply Book One and Book Two) and a couple of years on the road playing great shows
around the UK and in America alongside the likes of Alasdair Roberts, Diane Cluck, Tom Brosseau and Baby Dee,
her first full-length album of original songs, 'My Mother's Children', is released in record shops on August 4th on
Navigator Records and this is what the reviewers have made of it so far:

'terrifying and gorgeous....unusual and strong.....epic ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 3
Average Rating:

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My Mothers Children

by: Mary Hampton

Release Date May 12, 2008
Look at the pictures on Mary Hampton's MySpace page and you'll see an unusual woman of uncertain age with a handsome, if not a pretty face; a little reminiscent of the younger Maggie Smith. Listen to her songs and you'll hear a voice that threatens to invoke the late Sandy Denny in all her keening, desperate glory. Read her lyrics, and you can discern the stripped and pitiless shades of Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath.

Yet despite these points of comparison that flit in and out of her art like moths to the flame, Mary Hampton is at heart a true original. Unlike fabled pre-war "opera singer" Florence Foster Jenkins whose chutzpah Hampton sweetly applauds in the album's final song, she has an unearthly talent to accompany her artistic courage ... Read More: