THANK YOU to everyone who votes for a picture, especially everyone who voted for them all.. What we need now is some brilliant one line quotes from people who have booked us, seen us play listened to our music online. While you are thinking about it, here is a fantastic review of The Banjo The Bucket and The Gun, from Tasha Child THE BANJO THE BUCKET AND THE GUN - out now. Mikki Barry, from rrrip, puts her music on an album and we like! Drawing us out onto the porch on a starry night Barry sings, with a folk-sweet presense, the mountain songs of an era. Of times past when US country, originally folk music brought from Britain by the pioneers, met with the African blues; resulting in a new and rich genre. The banjo, the bucket, and the gun mines the themes of the old south; emotion, whiskey, war and courage. Hear them in the expertly rendered ‘Wildwood Flower’ [one of the albums highlights] where we are transported back with the track’s almost trad jazz backing and absorbing harmonies. Last track, ‘Pousiere D’Etoile’ also evokes the meeting of the folk/ blues genres, a gospel ballad featuring stunning harmonies and a celtic whistle and my personal favourite, ‘Chains’ which puts Barry’s effecting vocal right to the front. Barry deftly accompanies on banjo, guitar and bouzouki joining collaboraters Kara Richardson, Joanna Harvey, Meigan Netherwood and Meavis Moon, all prominent artists from the rrrip stable, in bringing an easy elegance and individuality to each track. Notably, Richardson’s industrial slide guitar on ‘Wild Bill Jones’ and Harvey’s fabulous fiddle on ‘Drinker Born’ and ‘Wind and Rain’. The banjo, the bucket, and the gun, engineered [using the rrrip mobile recording studio in Morrocco and Somerset] is the stuff of campfires and long walks along the old lanes and byways; raw folk at it’s most charismatic. This debut album, co-produced by Richardson, has a strong technical integrity wrapped up with an apealling ‘roadside’engineering style. Mikki Barry has given us a wild and uncompromising musical gift, not to be found on the supermarket shelves; it’s too good and dangerous for that.
Posted on: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 09:46:37 +0000
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