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Anmeldelser (3)


Gaffa [online]

d. 14. okt. 2013

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Espen Strunk

d. 14. okt. 2013

"Idéen er god og på en måde også ganske oplagt: En samling nyskrevne sange, som tager udgangspunkt i et eklektisk udvalg af kendte og elskede (pop)klassikere, men anlægger et nyt fortællerperspektiv. "Hvad mon Jolene eller Roxanne ville have at sige?," har den britiske guitarist og sangskriver Rotheray efter eget udsagn spurgt sig selv om, uddelegeret vokalarbejdet til en række fortrinsvis kvindelige solister - med en indimellem decideret fremragende og følsom folkpop-plade til følge".


The observer

d. 20. okt. 2013

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Neil Spencer

d. 20. okt. 2013

"Reflective, well-arranged numbers voiced by an impressive folk roster: Mary Coughlan does a bar-room drawl for Lucille's Song, Jackie Oates brings coy chamber folk, and Eliza Carthy makes a strident Maggie. A witty, entertaining cavalcade".


fRoots

2014 March

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Colin Irwin

2014 March

"A nice but risky idea (...) for Paul Rotheray - best known as Paul Heaton's chief henchman in The Beautiful South - to write a whole suite of songs on behalf of those wronged or vilified in classic song history ... Rotheray's imagination does (...) occasionally evoke some genuinely intriguing responses - Mary Coughlan gives us a wonderfully indignant justification for her appalling behaviour as Kenny Rogers' heartless Lucille, and Dr Hook's Sylvia's Mother develops into a mini soap opera with Jackie Oates as an unrepentant Mrs Avery - much to the rebllious fury of her daughter emotionally and convincingly depicted by Bella Hardy. For this alone it's great fun and for Rotheray - who previously dipped his toe in the British folk maelstrom with the fascinating, if flawed, The Life Of Birds - the saving grace is a succession of decent, ably constructed songs which mostly stand up in their own right, certainly in the hands of his chosen artists given pleasinglysympatheticarrangements".