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Sing the Number 1's

CD-Charts > Music > Contemporary Folk
by: Foster & Allen

Release Date November 07, 2005
I have just braught the new Foster and allen sing the number ones dubble C.D. It is a fantastic one. The songs are really good. It is well worth buying the album.

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Transmitting Live

CD-Charts > Music > Contemporary Folk
by: Runrig

Release Date March 15, 1999
What can I say but another outstanding album from Runrig, this time the whole thing recorded live here in Scotland and Germany. As ever Donnie hammered out his vocal chords particularly on Harvest Moon. There's just one thing that gets me though, this band are currently taking the world by storm, and yet the radio stations refused to have them on air. Hey they may not have No 1s but this band deserve so much more after all the work they put into performing live and recording. Remember Donnie at Portree where he considered 1991 to have been the peak of Runrig's success, in all honestly Runrig's success is still growing, after almost 30 years Runrig haven't reached their peak of success yet. Thats what gets me about radio stations and music ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 233
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Fairport Convention

CD-Charts > Music > Contemporary Folk
by: Fairport Convention

Release Date March 03, 2003
this is a wonderful opportunity to compare tracks with Judy Dyble singing with the same song with Sandy Denny on Heyday, which can only have been a few months later. Although the heyday versions are usually better, and the arrangements tighter, the earlier tracks have a lot to commend them and show an endearing amateurishness compared with the towering musical achievements which were to come as Richard Thompson perfected his technique. I saw them at Cambridge Corn exchange in 1969 (I think) with Yes and Eclection, and although they were doing this material I can't remember if they had Judy or Sandy singing or neither. Unfortunately my feelings about Trevor Lucas are affected by what happened to Sandy, so my review of Fotheringay 2 might be a bit ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 234
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Best of Janis Ian: The Autobiography Collection

CD-Charts > Music > Contemporary Folk
by: Janis Ian

Release Date July 22, 2008
this is a wonderful opportunity to compare tracks with Judy Dyble singing with the same song with Sandy Denny on Heyday, which can only have been a few months later. Although the heyday versions are usually better, and the arrangements tighter, the earlier tracks have a lot to commend them and show an endearing amateurishness compared with the towering musical achievements which were to come as Richard Thompson perfected his technique. I saw them at Cambridge Corn exchange in 1969 (I think) with Yes and Eclection, and although they were doing this material I can't remember if they had Judy or Sandy singing or neither. Unfortunately my feelings about Trevor Lucas are affected by what happened to Sandy, so my review of Fotheringay 2 might be a bit ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 235
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Rising For The Moon (Remastered)

CD-Charts > Music > Contemporary Folk
by: Fairport Convention

Release Date August 01, 2005
By the time Sandy Denny returned to the fold for this album, Richard Thompson had left and Dave Swarbrick had become the focus for the Fairport sound. Consequently, there's a feeling that occasionally the vision of Denny and Swarb clashed on this album and the whole fails to hang together, with some songs like 'Night-time girl' sounding lightweight and hideously like fillers.

Denny's husband Trevor Lucas chips in with some good railroad type songs to keep the album moving but, when Sandy Denny starts singing her own songs, then everything falls into focus and you can forgive the band anything as then this album sounds as good as anything the 'classic' Fairport line-up produced. The title track is superb, and is complemented by the haunting 'Stranger ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 236
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Impossible Dream

CD-Charts > Music > Contemporary Folk
by: Patty Griffin

Release Date May 30, 2005
It's the half-surprised vulnerability in Patty Griffin's voice and songs which startles you and implores you to listen to her writing again and again. There are singers, great singers, who you love because of the sounds of their voice and the emotions they impart to other people's lyrics. And there are writers who know how to sing, how to take a song and bless it - a writer with a voice can impart just that much more, can convey a personal intimacy to a track, and, though you know a million others have heard it, the message sounds as if it's delivered only to you. I shall end this analogy now, before I start sounding like a stalker.

"Impossible Dream" is Patty Griffin's fourth album to see the inside of a CD player - she's recorded a couple of ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 237
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Not on Top

CD-Charts > Music > Contemporary Folk
by: Herman Dune

Release Date April 18, 2005
Come on! How long has this been out and no one has reviewed it? Ok so i hadn't until now, but I just thought these guys are great and this album in my opinion is one of their best yet.

If you've ever seen them live (if not why not - they're one of the hardest working live bands)you'll recognise loads of their live favourites here from the last year or 2 - theres not a bad song on here (I'm just not so keen on one of the interludes in the middle but its like 30sec long).

Buy it now - if the sun where you are is not coming up with the summer goods, this is the best substitute.

CD-Charts Position 238
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Recovery

CD-Charts > Music > Contemporary Folk
by: Runrig

Release Date October 29, 1998
This is a milestone in the development of Scottish Gaelic music and set the stage for the music and culture beginning a renaissance into the wider culture of Scotland as a whole. Many bands (including Capercaillie) were to follow in this modern folk explosion and the early albums of Runrig, of which this and Highland Connection together are classics, set the stage for it.
Runrig would go on to be the biggest band in Scotland, not only selling out concerts and tours but creating ever larger venues to sell out (Loch Lomond) along the way. The radio stations of the day denied them the airplay which could have seen Runrig become as commercially successful in the charts as Clannad (they certainly had the fanbase for it) but nonetheless despite their limited chart ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 239
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The Best of the Vanguard Years: Remastered

CD-Charts > Music > Contemporary Folk
by: Buffy Sainte-Marie

Release Date October 04, 2004
I've enjoyed Buffy's work for a very long time but needed to update from vinyl. This CD is worth 5 stars but only got four because I'm a bit miffed that some of my favourite tracks never made it onto this CD. It is a good combination of her work although one or more tracks were new to me and a little too hard-core country for my taste. And nice to hear the songs without the crackle from scratches in my vinyl albums.

CD-Charts Position 240
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Cod Liver Oil And Orange Juice: The Transatlantic Anthology

CD-Charts > Music > Contemporary Folk
by: Hamish Imlach

Release Date February 26, 2008
John Martyn is qouted as saying that it was Hamish Imlach who inspired him to take up the guitar, and hear you can see why - not flashy, but enough nice touches so that I too wanted to know 'how you do that'. But it's his voice that makes him the definitive Scottish folk singer - powerful and naturally charming, and a way of making the song always come first, simple and direct. I just listened to Dick Gaughan's version of the song 'Erin Go Bragh', and was disappointed (and I like a lot of Gaughan)- Imlach's version is etched in my memory. Unfortunately 'Erin go Bragh' is not on this collection, and neither is his version of 'the Foggy Dew', which is the best version I've heard of that song, and neither, as a previous reviewer note is the Cumbie boys. These are all from his ... Read More: