The low highway
Steve Earle
Keywords
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Plain spoken
John Mellencamp
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Reviews (3)
The guardian
d. 5. June 2014
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Robin Denselow
d. 5. June 2014
"Now she's back, backed by an inspired band that includes Ben Paley on fiddle and BJ Cole on pedal steel. She still has a remarkable voice, and her range is impressive, with old favourites including Morning Dew, the poignant Rainy Windows and the chilling Winter's Going reworked alongside traditional material that includes an exquisite, unaccompanied Dink's Song, and the pained new lament JB's Song. Surely this is the comeback album of the year".
Mojo
2014 August
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Daryl Easlea
2014 August
"Making her name on the '60s US folk scene, Bonnie Dobson is primarily known for writing the much-covered "Morning Dew" ... Paired with a young band, [this accomplished return] is a warm, celebratory mixture of originals and covers from throughout her career. "Winter's Going", from her self-titled 1969 album, is taken from its original two-and-a-half minutes into a brooding, seven-minute epic and provides the album with its undisputed highlight. Dobson's voice is singular, sweet and strong, energised by her band, complete with customarily accomplished pedal steel by BJ Cole. The result is a tender and engaging listen".
fRoots
2014 July
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Steve Hunt
2014 July
"A contemporary of Joan Baez, Carolyn Hester and Karen Dalton on the early 1960s Greenwich Village folk scene, Canadian singer Bonnie Dobson recorded a handful of albums between 1961 and 1972 ... Dobson's stated dissatisfaction with those earlier recordings, particularly her eponymous, 1969 RCA release, may have prompted the decision to replicate that record's opening two tracks with (...) Morning Dew (her signature anthem, covered by the Grateful Dead, Robert Plant and Lulu, among others) finally receiving a definitive reading ... Dobson's classic pop and rock instincts are thankfully undiminished, as variously evidenced in the Shangri-Las spoken style intro to Living On Plastic, the Tex-Mex Come On Dancing, the extended, psych-out jam that closes Winter's Song (one for the Espers fans) or the band joyously blasting through Sandy Boys like the Full House-era Fairport at Glastonbury Fayre in 1971. For all the musical fireworks on show however, what impresses most isDobson'sglorious voice. Born in 1940 (...) she possesses a an extraordinarily potent instrument, whether soaring on the unaccompanied Dink's Song, driving the band through V'La L'Bon Vent, storytelling in the stately ballad Peter Amberley, or melting hearts of stone on Rainy Windows ... An exhilarating album".