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Airs And Graces
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Track Listing
- While Gamekeepers Lie Sleeping
- Plains of Waterloo
- Bonny May
- Reynardine
- Band Played Waltzing Matilda
- Young Waters
- Waly Waly
- Merchant's Son
- Queen Among the Heather
- Pull Down Lads
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #183714 in Music
- Released on: 2008-11-11
- Number of discs: 1
- Format: Import
- Dimensions: .18 pounds
Customer Reviews
a pinnacle
June Tabor has been an admirably adventurous interpreter of songs traditonal, and otherwise, for three decades. Looking back over her career "Airs and Graces" remains its high water mark. Nowhere did her sumptous dark tone feel more moving and less monotonous than on this collection. She performs a number of familar and less familar traditional tunes with, on this disc, not only her trademark sense of purposeful gravity but a lightening grace of effort. Her intrepretive surety here even manages to breathe new drama in an old chestnut like "Waltzing Matilda." One track that remains, listen after listen, transcendent for me is "Pull Down Lads." In a deceptively simple reading of a tale that is ostensibly about the dismantling of a country carnival, Tabor manages to transmit a haunting and profound meditation on death, love and leave-taking. It is an interpretation that each time I hear it leaves me in a contemplative and still state of mind pondering --dare I say-- that which truly matters. It's a fully realized recording for any fan of traditional singing or anyone interested in the art of the song.
Best of a Stellar Career
This is Tabor's debut album and in many ways, hard to top. She's defined her style here: lush vocalization with ascetic arrangements. I think she does Eric Bogle better than Bogle himself. Her version of "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" is the best I have heard. She tackles out of the way topics with her own flair. "Pull Down Lads" talks of the crew of carnies who close a fair down. Her "Waly Waly" ("The Water is Wide" is also not-to-be missed. If you are considering Tabor, start with this album!
Stunning Vocals!
June Tabor has a voice and style unsurpassed by anyone in any musical category.If you are already a traditional music fan I suggest you buy all the recordings of her you can find.
