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ROOTSVILLE CD REVIEW by SWA
NELL ROBINSON (US)
Loango

In My Dear Old Southern Home,
When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again,
Forgotten Soldier Boy,
Misty Moonlight
If Tears Could Heal,
I Walk The Line,
Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing,
Love Me or Leave Me Alone,
Butch,
Trouble-Minded Blues,
No Part of Nothing,
Scraps From Your Table,
He Left Me Standing There,
You Really Lose Your Mind.

How things start .....voor Hilary Perkins, aka Nell Robinson (- she took the name of her grandmother)  zijn de broertjes Coen en hun kaskraker "Oh Brother Where Art Thou" (2000) het lichtend voorbeeld geweest om zich met volle overgave in het country / bluegrass / americana wereldje te storten. Haar debuutalbum "Loango", een (h)eerlijke tribute to her family roots near Loango, Alabama, zit verpakt in een schitterende digi - pack with both Nells purched on the bumper of an old Chevy truck en kwam tot stand in samenwerking met Grammy - Award Winners Laurie Lewis & Jim Nunally and a cast of local musicians. (John Reischman, Nick Hornbuckle, Trisha Gagnon, Greg Spatz, Tom Rozum, Todd Phillips & Patrick Sauber)

De openingstrack "In My Dear Old Southern Home" - an old Jimmie Rodgers song - met een yodeling duet van de dames Laurie Lewis / Nell Robinson en de klassiekers "When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again" - with John Reischman’s mandolin, Nick Hornbuckle’s banjo and Greg Spatz’s fiddle - "Forgotten Soldier Boy" en Gwil Owen's "Misty Moonlight" - with Jim Nunally / harmony vocla, slide steel gt en Joe Craven / ukulele zijn de voorbodes van nog meer goud van oud.  "I Walk the Line" (Johnny Cash), "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing" (from  Methodist pastor & hymnist Robert Robinson) en Trouble - Minded Blues" (public domain) - with Chad Manning on fiddle / Patric Sauber / banjo, Tom Rozum / mandolin, Todd Philips / string bass (!) zijn de ideale opwarmertjes voor een faux radio program announced by Tony Marcus and featuring a retro singing act called "the Henriettas" ( Nell & Cary Sheldon), two DeZurik Sisters songs ( from a 1930 radio program ) with plenty of yodeling and chicken - cackling included.

Voor de 'hedendaagse' honor to her roots and tribute to her dad kroop Nell Robinson zelf in de pen ("If Tears Could Heal" en "Butch) of zocht hulp bij enkele bekende collega's ( Richard Brandenburg / "No Part of Nothing" en Hazel Dickens / "Scraps From your Table" )  Nell Robinson is een zeer aangename ontdekking en "Loango" a fantastic sentimental look at a simpler time and place  (SWA)

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