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Lal Waterson & Oliver Knight
Once In A Blue Moon
(Topic, 1996)
Fireside warmth meets deep melancholia on a Brit acoustic classic. King Creosote digs it.
As a member of Britain’s first family of folk Elaine ‘Lal’ Waterson helped define mid-’60s British acoustic revival. And yet, as her brother-in-law Martin Carthy points out, her ghostly vocal delivery and eccentric lyricism saw her journey far beyond folk. Once In A Blue Moon - recorded in a homely fashion in the mid-‘90s with her son Oliver on guitar – confirms that fact. Phoebe’s hymnal power, for instance, segues into a neo-metal dirge courtesy of Knight’s over-driven guitar, while Dazed is a blues reading of Rimbaud’s verse. Blue Moon’s real jewels, however, are the string-filled harmonic grace of At First She Starts and the beauteous paean to love, security and peace of Flight Of The Pelican, both of which shimmer with Lal’s ability to juxtapose the earthy with the ethereal. While her death on September 4, 1998, 10 days after being diagnosed with cancer, robbed the world of an understated talent, …Blue Moon – alongside the long-deleted Bright Phoebus – illustrates just why her legacy has grown since her passing, a point born out by the recent Migrating Bird tribute album, featuring such devotees as King Creosote, The Willard Grant Conspiracy and Vashti Bunyan.
Phil Alexander
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 04/12/2007
Further Listening
Lal And Norma Waterson – A True Hearted Girl (Topic, 1977)
Various – Migrating Bird: The Songs Of Lal Waterson (Honest Jon’s, 2007)
Rachel Unthank And The Winterset – The Bairns (Rabble Rouser/EMI, 2007)
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