Discover Top Posts Tagged with #candiana

Avro Canada CF-100 Canuck

View On WordPress

#Avro Canada #Avro Canada CF-100 Canuck #Candiana

View On WordPress

#aircraft #Candiana #De Havilland Canada

Pacco pronto alla spedizione per #Candiana #padova 😎 www.deluciacoltelleria.it #deluciacoltelleria #montesarchio #vianapoli (presso De Lucia Coltelleria) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLduoZ7JwZz/?igshid=xvrhjdan24wx

#candiana #padova #deluciacoltelleria #montesarchio #vianapoli

Plunger think of this album as a kind of sampler…

… not the ‘compilation’ nor the electronic riff stealer, but the traditional display of the mastery of the full range of homespun handicraft skills.

Sarah Jane Scouten’s When The Bloom Falls From The Rose certainly displays a deft hand with a variety of down-home country and folk styles, from the cowboy country of Every Song I Sing, with Sarah’s tremulous, emotional vibrato; through a (somewhat incongruous) fun 50s rockabilly Bang Bang, raw and raucous with tooth-rattling baritone guitar; to the 30s Okie two-step of Coupe De Ville Rag, complete with saloon piano, Woody Herman clarinet and fiddle all taking short solos in a bluegrass-shared-mic-round. There’s a classic Nashville barroom threnody in the mournful Man In Love, adorned with bittersweet vocal harmonies, twangsome Telecaster and a fluid plangent fiddle break, while the Tele gets a bucket load of tremolo for the quirky, upbeat, Workingman’s Dead-style Americana of Paul.

That latter track featured traditionally chirpy pedal steel, but it’s put to different use in the fabulously lush opener Acre Of Shells: a slow and dreamy Parsonsesque take on Old Time country, Sarah Jane’s plaintive sweet-but-breaking vox backed with rich harmonies and the pedal steel’s dense textures. The airy celtic-tinged reverie of Poland builds on ethereal pedal steel and fiddle accents to a stirring finale and there’s more celtic flavours in the lyrical, cello-led, folk of Paddy Graber’s Britannia Mine while the flavour of the accordion-led waltz of Rosehips For Scurvy lies somewhere between Tex-Mex cantina and Dublin pub, and the traditional waltz Where The Ghost River Flows has threads of Irish folk running through the spare backwoods fiddle lines and sweet harmonies.

The title track has a cracking fiddle-led hoedown intro before a poppy, indie kick-and-bass pulse grows to a country rock anthem with a Ronstadt/Eaglesy flavour, with guitar power chords and a wind-machine chorus. The closer Crack In Your Windshield has a little of that Ronstadt, West Coast feel, with mellow minimalist guitar, shaker, and synth string backing, and Sarah’s vulnerable honest vox right up front in the almost hymn-like love song.

And it’s Sarah Jane’s vocal that is the star of the record: a meaty mezzo of substance, with enough heft to carry the emotional power of numbers like Britannia Mine, playful enough for the fun tunes like Coupe De Ville Rag and with the depth and clarity to transport the listener on the shimmering sublime songs like Acre Of Shells. Add in the stylish arrangements and accomplished backing from her band and you get an intricately embroidered work that amply shows off Sarah Jane’s talents.

When The Bloom Falls From The Rose is available now via (Light Organ Records) here: https://www.sarahjanescouten.com/music

#sarah jane scouten #whenthebloomfallsfromtherose #americana #candiana #country #folk