Once In A Blue Moon

Lal Waterson | Format: MP3 Download

Product Details

• Original Release Date: November 30, 1995
• Label: Topic
• Copyright: 1996 Topic
• Genres: Folk/Traditional Folk, International/Celtic, International/Europe
• ASIN: B001A7BJQG
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #411,219 Paid in MP3 Albums (See Top 100 Paid in MP3 Albums)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I'm stunned!, October 21, 1999

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Jay Matthews (Illinois) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Once in a Blue Moon (Audio CD)

Nico's starkness, Marianne Faithful's rough edges and Sandy Denny's warmth. Brilliant!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Stands on its own while recalling the best of British folk, June 18, 1998

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"icb" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Once in a Blue Moon (Audio CD)

Occupying that hazily defined area (chamber folk?) populated by works like Van Morrison's Astral Weeks, Nick Drake's Five Leaves Left, Joe Henry's Shuffletown, and vintage Ronnie Lane, Once in a Blue Moon is a triumph of songwriting and performance. While Lal Waterson's background is in the British traditional folk scene, the album branches in many different directions from those formidable roots. It retains the rough-hewn vocal beauty that makes hers one of Britain's greatest voices, but instrumentally it is a shadowy, minimal affair, with her son's fluid electric guitar playing to the fore, building from valley to denouement in nearly complete sympathy with the lyrics and vocal. It is a "blue" album much like Abbey Lincoln's Abbey Is Blue, in that it is quiet, reflective, lyrically inventing and challenging, and ultimately joyful because of these things. It is the closest thing to a perfect album that I've heard in the 90s, one that will be whispered about reverently in 20 years.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars haunting, May 10, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Once in a Blue Moon (Audio CD)

this music wraps around me. I can't say exactly what it is that makes it so special- lal's raspy expressive voice (a highland's billy holliday!) or the odd, simple arrangements- with their birdlike swoops and eccentric phrasings. both i'd guess- the prophetess chanteuse from the sacred well!