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Storytellers
Vol 2 Various
Artistes GRACD 321 |
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This
is the second album in the series, released by BBC Radio 2. The first
album (reviewed in our April edition) was released to coincide with the
Radio 2 Folk Awards, Volume 2 has been released a few days before the
beginning of the renowned Cambridge Folk Festival which runs over the
last weekend of July. 18
tracks include Eva Cassidy with Sting’s ‘Field’s Of Gold’. Mary
Chapin Carpenter makes an appearance with the title track off her 1994
album ‘Stones In The Road’, which held Billboard Country Chart #1
position for five weeks and gaining a Grammy for Mary Chapin. Kristy
MacColl (daughter of Ewan MacColl) is here with a striking version of
Billy Bragg’s ‘A New England’, which she recorded around 1985.
Tragically Kristy was killed in a boating accident in Mexico last
December (2000). Billy Bragg makes an appearance himself with another of
his compositions ‘Levi Stubbs Tears’ which comes from his 1986 album
Talking With The Taxman About Poetry. Janis
Ian makes welcome return, offering a sensational version of the
frequently recorded ‘Jesse’, which she wrote. Roberta Flack has been
the most successful artiste to record the song, but I also recall
Shirley Bassey and Iris Williams recording it also. Emmylou Harris’s
delicate vocals drift across with the sensational ‘Sweet Old World’
form her Wrecking Ball album and Ireland’s Sharon Shannon makes
another appearance, this time with Jackson Browne and ‘A Man Of
Constant Sorrow’.
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