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Description: Genre: Folk - Traditional Folk / Artist: Meg Baird / Audio CD released 2007-06-11 at Wichita / Disc #1 ... more
Dear Companion - Meg Baird ... Tracklisting
1 Dear Companion
2 River Song
3 Cruelty Of Barbry Ellen
4 Do What You Gotta Do
5 Riverhouse In Tinicum
6 Waltz Of The Tennis Players
7 Maiden In The Moor Lay
8 Sweet William And Fair Ellen
9 All I Ever Wanted
10 Willie O'Winsbury
11 Dear Companion

Newest Review: ... recent works in the genre (such as Fraser & Debolt's 'Waltze of the Tennis Players' and New Riders of the Purple Sage's ... more

 ... 'All I Ever Wanted') and those oft-covered, traditional folk pieces such as 'The Cruelty of Barbry Allen' that are over five centuries old. This is to the album's credit as well as its failing, as the repetitive sound of the guitar plucking in particular can become a little tedious unless you've mentally prepared yourself to enjoy something as simple and primeval as this. Baird's singing fortunately varies between a slight country twang on the title track to a lighter and more ethereal performance on 'Rive...more

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Wichita, June 11, 2007, UPC: 5055036261456
Dear Companion
£ 7.98 Postage & Packaging: £ 1.46
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Premium Review Dear Companion - Meg Baird: Solo Albums Don't Get More Solo Than This (387 words)
by Frankingsteins - written on 25.02.08 (Very useful, 15 readings)
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The debut solo release from Philadelphia folk singer Meg Baird is vastly different from her more well-known work in Esper, free of the psychedelic and distorted electronic elements and stripped down to folk in its purest, simplest form of a woman strumming an acoustic guitar. Boasting a mix of "folk classics and traditional songs," people like me who don't have a lot of knowledge on the subject won't be able to discern too much between her original material, covers of comparatively recent works in the genre (such as Fraser & Debolt's 'Waltze of the Tennis Players' and New Riders of the Purple Sage's 'All I Ever Wanted') and those oft-covered, traditional ...

 

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