Description:	CD on Domino
	Format:	CD
	Genre(s):	Singer-Songwriter
	Label:	Domino
	Price:	£10.79
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5
...according to our Brian on 07 August 2009.

Nice of the much loved James Yorkston to take things back to basics, with assistance from Sheffield's Big Eyes Family Players, he's unleashed a blinding collection of tender traditional folk classics, mostly picked from around the British Isles. His mellow Scots burr always brings a smile to proceedings and these contemporary interpretations range from the freewheeling & summery, the heartrending & melancholy to centerpiece 'Pandeirada de Entrimo', a token Spanish number sourced from the Galicia region which stirs the soul with it's flickering intensity - a marching drum & fiddle piece that has me dreaming of partaking in a slow muñeira with a fine dusky maiden! Being of traditional nature, the majority of songs here are remarkably free of a "shitting out the window" luddite attitude, these lilting acoustic lullabies are either touched with sweeping, gentle strings or embellished further with restrained bass strokes & discreet percussion. Every tune here has a reassuring, homely glow, played with the knowing prowess of musicians in awe of their proud heritage yet unrestrained by their ancestry. A thoroughly engaging listen with not a weak moment!

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What their label says...

James Yorkston returns in the company of The Big Eyes Family Players
with a new album of traditional songs from the length and breadth of the
Great Britain and Ireland, and one tune from Galicia in Spain. After a decade
which has seen folk music morph into nu-folk, mobile phone-ad folk,
mortgage-folk, smoothie-folk and so on, Yorkston has reached back into
the tradition of song and place and drawn a line in the sand.

Leading up to release video clips of the sessions will appear on
James Yorkston’s YouTube.

Tracklisting:

Hills Of Greenmoor * Just As The Tide Was Flowing * Martinmas Time * Mary Connaught & James
O’Donnell * Thorneymoor Woods * I Went To Visit The Roses * Pandeirada de Entrimo * Little Musgrave *
Rufford Park Poachers * Sovay * Low Down In The Broom