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Bethany
Yarrow: Rock Island
Bethany Yarrows new album, Rock Island, has her singing songs of Americanas soul and of wasted days long gone. Rock Island is an album of covers that Bethany has connected with at some point in her life. She sings them effortlessly, and they have been arranged in such a way that they are almost unrecognizable. Etherealness comes to mind a heartier version of present day Sarah McLachlan. Bethanys voice is thick like honey, but not too sweet. This matched with drum tracks and an electronica-bent backdrop. A self admitted, at one time, fan of hardcore and crazy rock n roll that was bred on the lower east side at the likes of CBGB, Bethany is also the product of a seriously folk-heavy background. Having Peter, of Peter, Paul & Mary fame as your father will have that kind of influence on a young child. Bethany though, in her earlier years railed against the familiarity and comfort of the folk world but never did get gone. Rock Island marks Bethanys very public return to more traditional music but with her own idea of how these songs should be heard and sung. The addition of the trance type beats give the songs a whole new life one that might just fit into your very own music collection. This album sounds like any of those ultra chill compilations, which is both good and bad but you get my meaning. The fact remains, Ms. Yarrow can sing and she has brought these songs to you because most people my age have never even heard them the whole challenge has been to take them out of the dusty bin of history and give them another life
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