Niamh Parsons, Blackbirds & Thrushes - 56m 6s

Tracks & Durations

1. The Blackbird Waltz	3:36
2. Flower of Finae	6:42
3. Sally Sits Weeping	3:20
4. Kilnamartyra Exile	5:43
5. Fear a Bhata	5:22
6. The Banks of the Nile	5:28
7. The Water is Wide	4:49
8. The Maid on the Short	3:42
9. The Wounded Huzzar	5:46
10. Alexander	2:36
11. Droimeann Donn Dilis	4:56
12. The Flower of Magherally O	3:58

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Review

Irish songbird Niamh Parsons has built an esteemed career fronting the Celtic band Arcady and her own band, the Loose Connections, but also as a soloist with a catalog that sprawls from magnificent-days-of-yore balladry to contemporary rockist folk. Taking flight here on the lissome and lovely Blackbirds & Thrushes, Parsons flitters and soars with her silver-water voice spinning gold from traditional tunes largely learned from other singers at the renowned Goilan singers club. Pipes, whistles, acoustic bass and guitar, and piano ring round the rosy tones of broken vibrato that make magic of simple alliterative or rhyming refrains such as "Rye fol de dol diddle dol day" or "When cockle shells make Christmas bells / Then I would lose my love for thee." Reminiscent of Sandy Denny-era Fairport Convention, the band provides sparse framework--chops so righteous as to play and sing with equal measures of abandon and restraint. Parsons wends her chords around each note, refracting the sound against warm light, bending, breaking, and infusing each note with clarity and conviction. --Paige La Grone

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