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NEW RELEASES - MARCH 2007
A selection of new CD, DVD and book releases from the folk, roots and acoustic music scene.
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CHRIS AND KELLIE WHILE: TOO FEW SONGS
Fat Cat FATCD018 | Artist website
Multiply two fabulous voices and guitars with a great crop of contemporary songwriter material and you get this long-overdue album from the mother-and-daughter team. Result!
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JETHRO TULL: THE BEST OF ACOUSTIC
EMI 3888962 | Artist website
Released to coincide with an unplugged tour, here's a great compilation encompassing the band's 38-year career, from 1969's Fat Man to 2007's revamped One Brown Mouse.
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LISA KNAPP: WILD AND UNDAUNTED
Ear To The Ground ETTGCD001 | Artist website
Debut album from an upcoming singer. Fragile vocals with a wayward charm; intense, inventive band arrangements; modern vibe on trad and original material.
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PEGGY SEEGER: THREE SCORE AND TEN
Appleseed Recordings APRCD1100 | Artist website
Peggy's 70th birthday bash, surrounded by family and friends (Seegers, MacColls, Carthys, Watersons, Bragg) in May 2005. A good time was had by all! (Double CD)
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JOAN BAEZ: RING THEM BELLS (COLLECTOR'S EDITION)
Proper Records PRPCD031 | Artist website
Some great collaborations on this expanded double reissue of a 1995 New York gig with Mary Chapin Carpenter, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Indigo Girls, Janis Ian, Mary Black, Mimi Fariña and more.
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JIM MALCOLM: ACQUAINTANCE
Record Co Cat No | Artist website
Seventh solo album from the ex-Old Blind Dogs singer, whose warm, relaxed vocal graces fourteen songs of Robert Burns, both well-known and more obscure.
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PENTANGLE: THE TIME HAS COME 1967-1973
Castle Records CMXBX664 | Artist website
The unparalleled folk-jazz-blues quintet are justly glorified in this essential 4-CD box set. Remastered classic tracks plus quality unreleased live, film & tv material superbly compiled & annotated by Colin Harper. Look out for film soundtrack Tam Lin and almost the entire June 1968 Royal Festival Hall gig.
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LAU: LIGHTWEIGHTS & GENTLEMEN
Reveal Records REVEAL17 | Artist website
Exuberant inventiveness with original instrumentals and trad songs - a terrific debut from Aidan O'Rourke, Martin Green and Kris Drever.
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LAURA VEIRS: SALTBREAKERS
Nonesuch 104316 | Artist website
Another peek into Veirs' oddball, nature-referencing world where quirky vocals, arrangements and melodic structures hypnotize the senses.
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OISÍN McAULEY: FAR FROM THE HILLS OF DONEGAL
Compass Records 7 4446 2 | Artist website
Classical, jazz and other flavours infuse this ace multi-faceted debut of trad and original material from Danú's fiddler plus top henchmen.
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LAUREN MacCOLL: WHEN LEAVES FALL
Make Believe Records MBR1CD | Artist website
Sparkling debut from the Young Folk Award-winning fiddler (and pals) whose rich, elegant playing is spellbinding from start to finish.
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RY COODER: MY NAME IS BUDDY
Nonesuch Cat No | Artist website
Ryland's latest concept: a musical roadtrip through dustbowl America with a hobo tomcat - cue gutbucket blues, gospel, bluegrass and downhome folk tales!
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JULIE FOWLIS: CUILIDH
Spit & Polish SPIT032 | Artist website
Beautiful second album from the Hebridean singer with all-star crew including Thile, McCusker, Shaw. Gaelic song never sounded so good.
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UNCLE EARL: WATERLOO, TENNESSEE
Rounder 11661-0577-2A | Artist website
Second album from the all-girl stringband who do jugband blues, fiddle ballads and original material with fire and goodtime vibes.
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TOM BLISS AND FRIENDS: ISLAND STORIES
Slipjig Music SLIP011 | Artist website
Ten reissued tracks plus four new, drawing together all Bliss's evocative narrative songs of the Channel Islands. Salt and skill in every track.
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