This album certainly emphasises that dark, elemental world but also furnishes the little hope that we all need to try to retain our humanity, something that we can’t help but struggle with at this moment in time. I’m now more than half a century older and probably a little more worldly than I was back then so perhaps have a little more understanding of life. Those and his other early recordings had a dark eeriness in the recording process and performances of nearly a century ago that I simply could not relate to and from a time and place of which I had no comprehension. The lead and harmony vocals are both stunningly gorgeous and eerily haunting, even at times having an otherworldly, almost sinister feel darkly beautiful if you like! Long ago when I first heard Dock Boggs 1920s recordings of songs such as ‘Country blues and ‘Sugar Babe’ the effect was similar, in fact they were the first recordings that came to mind as any sort of vague comparison on the first play of this hugely impressive recording. This is their second full length album following on from 2017s tremendous ‘Count the wicked,’ which in turn follows the also excellent debut e.p from 2014. They are assisted by Andrew Horton, who plays upright bass on “How it Ends” and “Just Pick One,” Joe Grass on dobro on “Just Pick One” and Pierre Alexandre-Maranda, upright bass on “Narrow Line,” with production duties courtesy of Bill Garrett and Mama’s Broke. The duo consists of Amy Lou Keeler on vocals, guitar, banjo, and fiddlesticks, with Lisa Maria, also on vocals, as well as fiddle, mandolin, banjo, guitar, and cello. ![]() There are off shoots that thread their way to various other locations, but that enormous distance sums up this extravagantly gifted duo’s musical influences, and indeed, their proclivity for travel. They begin in Eastern Europe, wend their way slowly across the continent to the UK and Ireland, then across the Atlantic to Appalachia where they spend considerable time picking up further nourishment before wending their way up to Novia Scotia and eventually encompassing the whole vastness of Canada. ![]() This incredible ‘folk’ album (an utterly insufficient descriptive word/term if ever there was one) has roots so long that few if any other recordings can be compared to it.
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