Goin' round in my mind : The Merrell Fankhauser anthology 1964-1979
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Reviews (2)
AllMusic
2019
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Mark Deming
2019
" Niles had an interesting backstory, between having been married to Ramblin' Jack Elliott, later tying the knot with Tony Silvester of the Main Ingredient, and appearing in the Blaxploitation touchstone Super Fly. But despite having a strong voice and some enthusiastic supporters, the first and only album she recorded, financed by the U.K. independent label Ember Records, was shelved after it was completed in 1970. Except for one tune on a 1970 Ember Records sampler, Future Star Explosion: New Faces of the 70's, none of Niles' recorded work was available to the public before 2009, when tracks began appearing on compilations of music from the Ember vaults ... Polly Niles deserved more attention than she received in 1970, and Sunshine in My Rainy Day Mind: The Lost Album is a welcome corrective to that, but just issuing the lost album might have made a better case for her overlooked talent".
Louder than war
d. 27. Oct. 2019
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Ian Canty
d. 27. Oct. 2019
"The album itself is a fair orchestrated folk record that dips regularly into soul and R&B. There's no doubt that Polly was a versatile singer, but this proved to be her Achilles heel here as she moves from one vocal style to another, not settling into any one mode long enough for this listener to see her talents blossom. This at times gives the record a somewhat disjointed feel, with Ember's orchestra poking in a lot of times when it wasn't really needed. Sometimes they work well together, like on the nice funk/soul of If I Let You, but on others they threaten to smother her voice".