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| ARTIST: | Karan Casey |
| CATEGORY: | Music |
| MANUFACTURER: | Shanachie |
| MEDIA: | Audio CD |
| TRACKS: | Roger the Miller, She Is Like the Swallow, Ballad of Accounting, Shamrock Shore, Martinmas Time, Buachaillin Ban, Creggan White Hare, Song of Wandering Aengus, One, I Love, World Turned Upside Down (The Digger's Song), Labouring Man's Daughter |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 016351780720 |
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Customer Reviews of Songlines
A Pristine Voice and Fun Songs If you can't get enough of Karan Casey on her two disks with Solas, this is CD should help ease the trouble. Casey's voice is wonderful, and she can handle a great range of material well. The album includes traditional folk tunes, a few a capella pieces, and a truly "rocking" (if that's the right word for a folk song) version of The Ballad of Accounting. I was also happy to see that most of Solas appears on the album as well, so the accompaniment is wonderful. The only clunker is a famine ballad called Shamrock Shore--and even this song isn't so bad, it just suffers from sincere but bad poetry. Overall, this CD is great.
Wonderful addition to any Celtic library!
During a promotion for a concert I was giving for someone else in October, we played a brief clip of "martinmas time" (my group, the Celtic Music Society of Montgomery, was bringing Casey in four months later). By the time I got back to my desk, we'd sold 6 tickets.
Casey has studied jazz, and it shows. These are not staid, "safe" renditions of traditional songs-- these songs really move along, with fire, a little swing, bounce and joy. "Roger the Miller" with its mockery of a young man who got greedy when he beheld his fiancee's riches makes me smile every time I hear it.
I love her version of "Creggan White Hare"-- though I first learned it from Andy Irvine and Dick Gaughan, I think her cover is even more memorable. Casey's voice takes you on a journey through her songs. She has a light quality to her voice-- a bit like Triona O'Domhnaill (Bothy Band, Relativity, Nightnoise) rather than someone like June Tabor-- and it makes the more serious songs very fresh. It's just impossible not to care about the narrator when she sings!
A really terrific CD.
Takes my breath away
As musician, I deeply respect Karan Casey for the beauty of her voice. Honestly, her singing takes my breath away. Her tone is gorgeous, and the nuances she brings into each song make them especially beautiful.