Tia Blake and her Folk-Group · Folksongs & Ballads

Label: Ici Bientôt / Genre: Country · Folk · Blues

TRACKS FOR FOLKSONGS & BALLADS
1. Betty And Dupree
2. Black is the color
3. Wish I was a single girl again
4. I am a man of constant sorrow
5. Jane, Jane
6. Lost Jimmy Whalen
7. Rising of the moon
8. Hangman
9. Turtle dove
10. Plastic Jesus
11. Polly Vaughn

Folksongs and Ballads by Tia Blake & Her Folk Group, is more than just a “lost classic”. As clear and honest as can be, Folksongs and Ballads is a magnetic record, a refuge like only Nick Drake, Nico, and a few others have been able to create.
A graceful, delicately minimalist approach to classic Appalachian and British folk songs.

Folksongs and Ballads is composed of traditional tunes that have been covered many times, but they’re not the best known folk standards. A collection of stories ranging from the Middle Ages to the 1960s, bringing together sublimely doleful ballads, lamentations for a lost lover, and an unexpected, brilliant version of the road anthem “Plastic Jesus.”

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