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Maurice Hope's Blog – December 2009 Archive (7)
RITA HOSKING —COME SUNRISE - Own Label (media)
www.ritahosking.comCalifornian gal, Rita Hosking has a beautiful, wistful no nonsense singing voice that creeps into the mind of the listener with minimal ease. Plus, with a long list of Austin, Tx acts involved headed by producer, Rich Brotherton (acoustic, electric, lap steel and National guitar, mandolin, cittern and hammered dulcimer), Warren Hood (fiddle), Glenn Fukunaga (upright bass), Marty Muse (pedal steel guitar), Tom Van… Continue
Added by Maurice Hope on December 31, 2009 at 17:30 — No Comments
JOHN GORKA —SO DARK YOU SEE - Red House (media)
www.redhouserecords.comSinger-songwriter, John Gorka is a unique talent. He has a fabulous singing voice and, he writes great songs too. While not all the songs on the album are his own, the ones he has brought in are likewise top order fare. As in his fine interpretations of the poems of Robert Burns and William Stafford, respectively ‘Ae Fond Kiss’ and ‘Where No Monument Stands’, plus you have versions of Bruce ‘Utah’… Continue
Added by Maurice Hope on December 31, 2009 at 9:00 — No Comments
LINDA RONSTADT —HAND SOWN...HOME GROWN / SILK PURSE - Raven (media)
www.ravenrecords.com.auWest-coast singer Linda Ronstadt came along at a hugely creative time in her region. With her folk, country and rock influences merged as one, her vibrant singing voice was nothing less than remarkable. Country rock was making its name and with such hot pickers as Clarence White, Red Rhodes, and Earl Ball on the recording Hand Sown… in 1969 and a year later top Nashville session men Charlie McCoy, Pete… Continue
Added by Maurice Hope on December 30, 2009 at 18:00 — No Comments
TRANSATLANTIC SESSIONS 4 —With Jerry Douglas and Aly Bain (Whirlie DVD)
www.wirlierecords.co.ukWhat a fantastic showcase for acoustic music from both sides of the Atlantic the now legendary Transatlantic Sessions have become. For it has not only proved to be a fantastic showcase for the likes of Emmylou Harris, Guy Clark, Iris DeMent, Kate and Anna McGarrigle and Irish songbirds, Mary Black and Dolores Keane but the likes of stellar musicians Stuart Duncan, Phil Cunningham, Donal Lunny, Russ Barenberg,… Continue
Added by Maurice Hope on December 19, 2009 at 16:30 — No Comments
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT 111—HIGH WIDE & HANDSOME ; THE CHARLIE POOLE PROJECT (Proper Records)
www.properuk.comIn tribute to old-time musician, hard drinking womanising banjo playing vocalist Charlie Poole (1892-1931), American folk legend Loudon Wainwright once married to fellow folk artist, Kate McGarrigle and father of Rufus and Martha Wainwright who are now forging careers of their own dips back in time for material on this album. Plus, along with songwriter-producer Dick Connette written nine new songs to go with the other twenty… Continue
Added by Maurice Hope on December 19, 2009 at 10:00 — 1 Comment
HEATHER BRISTOW —HOPE ON THE VINE (Own Label)
www.myspace.com/heatherbristowRaised in North Carolina in the USA, Heather Bristow prior to relocating to the UK, where in her adopted county of Bath in Gloucestershire she gained a master’s degree in poetry from the Spa University. On combining her poet talent with a love for the sparse, folk and bluegrass world, Bristow in the company of a wonderful set of musicians decorates the album with her self-penned songs in stylish… Continue
Added by Maurice Hope on December 13, 2009 at 8:30 — No Comments
Danny Schmidt, Carrie Elkin and Pete Molinari, Jumpin’ Hot Club@The Cluny2, Newcastle
Danny Schmidt, Carrie Elkin and Pete Molinari, Jumpin’ Hot Club@The Cluny2, Newcastle10:32am Thursday 10th December 2009
TO celebrate its 24th birthday, the Jumpin’ Hot Club had Americana singer-songwriter Danny Schmidt and his tour partner, Carrie Elkin, open. Although London-based Pete Molinari, fresh from five months recording and playing in America, topped the bill, but it was Schmidt and Elkin who… Continue
Added by Maurice Hope on December 12, 2009 at 2:30 — No Comments
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