Blackbirds & Thrushes

Blackbirds & Thrushes

Blackbirds & Thrushes

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Irish songbird Niamh Parsons has built an esteemed career fronting the Celtic band Arcady and her own band, the Loose Connections, but also as a soloist with a catalog that sprawls from magnificent-days-of-yore balladry to contemporary rockist folk. Taking flight here on the lissome and lovely Blackbirds & Thrushes, Parsons flitters and soars with her silver-water voice spinning gold from traditional tunes largely learned from other singers at the renowned Goilan singers club. Pipes, whistles, acoustic bass and guitar, and piano ring round the rosy tones of broken vibrato that make magic of simple alliterative or rhyming refrains such as "Rye fol de dol diddle dol day" or "When cockle shells make Christmas bells / Then I would lose my love for thee." Reminiscent of Sandy Denny-era Fairport Convention, the band provides sparse framework--chops so righteous as to play and sing with equal measures of abandon and restraint. Parsons wends her chords around each note, refracting the sound against warm light, bending, breaking, and infusing each note with clarity and conviction. --Paige La Grone

Blackbirds & Thrushes,Niamh Parsons,Green Linnet,Celtic/Irish,Int'l & World Music,Irish,Pop,World Music
Braggin' in Brass
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    		Braggin' in Brass
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    Manufacturer: Telarc
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B000003CWZ
    Release Date: 1990-02-10

    Tracks:

    1. Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
    2. Slap Happy
    3. Braggin' In Brass
    4. Saint James Infirmary
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    Blackbirds & Thrushes
    Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
    • Folk Lovers Must Have
    • Uneven!
    • Lovely and Fresh
    • she sings of earth and sky
    		 Blackbirds & Thrushes
    Niamh Parsons
    Manufacturer: Green Linnet
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

    GeneralGeneral | Folk | Styles | Music
    Irish FolkIrish Folk | Traditional British & Celtic Folk | Folk | Styles | Music
    GeneralGeneral | International | Styles | Music
    GeneralGeneral | Celtic | International | Styles | Music
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    ASIN: B00000IN41
    Release Date: 1999-04-27

    Tracks:

    1. Blackbirds And Thrushes/The Blackbird Waltz
    2. Flower Of Finae
    3. Sally Sits Weeping
    4. Kilnamartyra Exile
    5. Fear A Bhata
    6. The Banks Of The Nile
    7. The Water Is Wide
    8. The Maid On The Shore
    9. The Wounded Huzzar
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    11. Droimeann Donn Dilis
    12. The Flower Of Magherally O

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    Irish songbird Niamh Parsons has built an esteemed career fronting the Celtic band Arcady and her own band, the Loose Connections, but also as a soloist with a catalog that sprawls from magnificent-days-of-yore balladry to contemporary rockist folk. Taking flight here on the lissome and lovely Blackbirds & Thrushes, Parsons flitters and soars with her silver-water voice spinning gold from traditional tunes largely learned from other singers at the renowned Goilan singers club. Pipes, whistles, acoustic bass and guitar, and piano ring round the rosy tones of broken vibrato that make magic of simple alliterative or rhyming refrains such as "Rye fol de dol diddle dol day" or "When cockle shells make Christmas bells / Then I would lose my love for thee." Reminiscent of Sandy Denny-era Fairport Convention, the band provides sparse framework--chops so righteous as to play and sing with equal measures of abandon and restraint. Parsons wends her chords around each note, refracting the sound against warm light, bending, breaking, and infusing each note with clarity and conviction. --Paige La Grone

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars Folk Lovers Must Have.......2002-03-19

    Niamh Parsons has a rich, mellow voice which was made to sing traditional irish folk. Some songs are very lilting and melodious and others are meditative. The Maid on the Shore creates a very vivid picture to the listener. If you like irish folk, Niamh Parsons would fit very well in your collection.

    3 out of 5 stars Uneven!.......2001-03-17

    I was very disappointed in this cd. The quality is very uneven from song to song with too many of them at too high a key for Ms. Parsons voice. Her newer cd is much better and has already been listened to 10 times more often than this one.

    5 out of 5 stars Lovely and Fresh.......2000-03-08

    Of all the celtic albums I've bought recently, this one is by far the best. Ms. Parson has an absolutely lovely voice, and it is much, much more expressive than average. Just as important, she's done a good job of choosing her songs--all of them traditional, but with a fresh feeling to them. "The Water is Wide" is almost always beautiful no matter who's performing it, but who'd have predicted that Parsons' singing could render the Irish "Fear a Bhata" (Man of the Boat)so haunting and filled with longing that it need not be translated for the meaning to come through? An excellent recording.

    5 out of 5 stars she sings of earth and sky.......1999-12-09

    Niamh Parsons'BLACKBIRDS AND THRUSHES has become one of my favorite recordings. She breathes new life into the "celtic" music world. While I have read of comparisons with other singers, Ms. Parsons voice reminds me of a not-so-dark June Tabor.While I love and collect Ms. Tabor's recordings, I tend to listen to them in quieter, introspective times. BLACKBIRDS AND THRUSHES seems to transend moods with it spare, beautiful melodies and Niahm Parsons' voice that sings of earth and sky and life.
    Where the Red-Winged Blackbirds Sing
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      		Where the Red-Winged Blackbirds Sing
      Jim Schulz
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD
      ASIN: B000QFQDFU

      Product Description

      1 Mountain Standard Time/lonesome Indian 2 'til Sunrise Takes Me Home 3 Greenlight On the High Timber 4 The Highline Road 5 This House of Sky 6 The Dark Wind 7 Beyond the Waterline 8 Cottonwood Country 9 Where the Red-winged Blackbirds Sing
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        		13 Blackbirds/13 Lotus
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          Binding: Audio CD
          ASIN: B000TKH6L2

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          1 One 2 Back to Where I've Never Been 3 Loving Arms 4 Children of the Morning 5 Invisible Children 6 Friday 7 Soul Tattoo 8 Icarus 9 Out of reach 10 Only Love Survives
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              ASIN: B000CAG9TE
              Release Date: 2003-06-03

              Tracks:

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                ASIN: B000CAFMPQ
                Release Date: 2005-01-18

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                  GeneralGeneral | Jazz | Styles | Music
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                    GeneralGeneral | Jazz | Styles | Music
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                    ASIN: B0002FYFIG
                    Release Date: 2004-05-17

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                    Classic jazz standards sung with a romantic, passionate flair by the distinctive voice of Amy Katchur.

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