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Folk album reviews by Steve Johnson: August 19, 2019
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Emily Mae Winters
High Romance
EMW003
★★★★

FAST becoming a rising star on the UK Americana scene Emily Mae Winters has been compared to great artists in that cross over the folk/country genres like Gillian Welch and Emmylou Harris. In this her second album Winters demonstrates her song writing skills with wholly new compositions covering themes of travelling, growing up, following your dreams as well as standard love songs.

Winters’s voice is well suited to these themes starting with the country Ballard style through to Come Live in my Heart and Pay No Rent through to the more full band style of Wildfire and the more acoustic Folky One of Those Days.
This is an intriguing album by an artist determined to develop her own style which may not be neatly categorised as folk, blues or country.

 

Katherine Campbell
Robert Burns Tunes Unknown
(Birnam)
★★★★

Katherine Campbell, an established singer and Burns expert from Morayshire in north-east Scotland, has just released this album of 10 songs from the bard himself where the original tune is unknown or has been lost.


Elliott Morris
The Way is Clear
Dominoes Club Records
★★★★

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