Alasdair Roberts - Amber Gatherers
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Artist: Alasdair RobertsEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2007-01-23
Music Label: Drag City
Soundtracks:
- Riddle Me This
- Where Twines The Path
- Waxwing
- I Had A Kiss Of The King's Hand
- The Cruel War
- Let Me Lie And Bleed Awhile
- Firewater
- River Rhine
- I Have A Charm
- The Old Men Of The Shells
- The Calfless Cow
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On 2005's No Earthly Man, Scottish singer/songwriter Alasdair Roberts offered up eight traditional ballads with minimal accompaniment. That he pulled it off without nailing the listeners eyes shut within the first two minutes is a testament to both his gift as an interpreter, and his reedy, yet impossibly fluid and melodious voice. On the Amber Gatherers, Roberts balances regional folk songs with his own self-penned odes to heartache, death and drink, successfully blurring the line between the two like a young Nic Jones or Martin Carthy. A full band is employed this time around, and their lightly brushed drums, fingerpicked guitars, accordions, and backing vocals wrap themselves around Roberts' careful phrasing like a winter coat. Standout tracks such as "I Had a Kiss of the King's Hand," "Cruel War" and "Old Men of the Shells" sound like lost cuts from the late-'60s and early-'70s British folk heydays, and a hand-drawn map of the U.K. with songtitles for cities, as well as a handy tuning chart that explains where to capo your guitar for each song, gives the whole affair a rustic, communal vibe that manages to avoid feeling contrived. ~ James Christopher Monger, RoviAlternative Rock Music CDs
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