Child Ballads; Anais Mitchell and Jefferson Hamer

[Orpheus]

I heard a track from this album on Radio National and ordered it immediately. I hadn't heard this woman before.

 

This album is brilliant, as Mitchell interprets ballads from Francis Child famous collection in the 19th century.

 

Each song is like a medieval stained glass window, a fable, a morality tale, a life, a warning, a haunting and disturbing lullaby.

 

Very beautiful, and some of them very sad.

 

Here's a you tube version that's reasonably recorded;

 

 

Here's my favourite song on this album, though you have to wade through some discussion before you get to it;

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJDpSPCsMWU

 

 

[soundfan]

Nice. You need to check out Hadestown, it's a ripper of an album.

 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadestown

 

 

Edited June 1, 2013 by soundfan

[Phil G]

Nice.  Thanks for posting.

[blackangus]

+1 on hadestown, we have given that disc a flogging. the instrumentation is just awesome, great recording. it surprises me few seem to know it, particularly given the popularity of the rest of the cast

I'll definitely grab a copy of child ballads