Comet

Cordelia's Dad | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 21, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Omnium
• ASIN: B000001BCR
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #147,697 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. May Blooming Field

2. Katy Cruel

3. Old Virginia

4. Gypsy Davy

5. Booth Shot Lincoln/Hangman's Reel

6. Seven Long Years

7. The Sun And The Moon

8. George Collins

9. The Dying Californian

10. The Frozen Girl

11. Sugar Baby

12. Jersey City

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cordelia's Dad is always worth getting, September 24, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Comet (Audio CD)

Eleven of Comet's twelve tracks are acoustic. Despite what the info up above there says, this is not a live album in the traditional sense of the word. That is, it was recorded live in the studio, not at a concert. What that means is that you get some of the intensity of a live recording, because things weren't done in little pieces and then put together, but you also get a nice clean recording, as you so often don't with a truly live record.

As for the songs, what can I say? Cordelia's Dad is always great. If there were any justice in the world, everyone on earth would know that and there would be hundreds of customer reviews here, reflecting the millions of records they'd sold. Unfortunately, that's not the case.

There are three voices, a frame drum, a guitar, a banjo, and a fiddle on Comet. Tim Eriksen has one of the greatest singing voices to be heard today -- not great in the style of Pavarotti, but that's not necessarily a bad thing -- and Cath Oss's harmony parts are lovely. The arrangements are accordingly spare and direct, and the overall effect is moving and something different than but just as good as beautiful.

Just get it. It's worth it.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommended, March 4, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Comet (Audio CD)

Here's one modern album that works for my ultra-trad tastes: unusual historic material, singing methods borrowing some of the riveting qualities of Sacred Harp, deft instrumentals, and that indefinable quality, "conviction".

4.0 out of 5 stars Nice addition, April 24, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Comet (Audio CD)

We won tickets to go see Cordelia's Dad, so we went not knowing what to expect and never hearing of them before. We were pleasantly suprised. This cd is a nice addition to any collection.