Siobhan Miller
Strata
Songprint Recordings
THERE is something highly admirable about the unhurried, slightly contrary path of award-winning young traditional singer Siobhan Miller. The Penicuik lass took her time about issuing her debut disc, Flight of Time, on the Vertical label, and when it arrived it majored on her own songwriting (in partnership with James Grant) rather that the trad repertoire with which she had made her reputation. In what is a reversal of the usual order of things, she has returned to the established canon (Dylan and Andy M Stewart alongside her own arrangements of traditional material) for her second set, recorded at Gloworm studios in Glasgow's West End with bassist Euan Burton in the producer's chair.
As well as song choices and label, Miller also has a new set of collaborators on these eleven tracks, but no less illustrious. Phil Cunningham provides accordion on Stewart's Ramblin' Rover and Ed Pickford's Pound A Week Rise, which also features Kris Drever, who is all over the album. Louis Abbott provides drums and percussion throughout as well as vocal support on Dylan's One Too Many Mornings, and a trio of top fiddlers – Megan Henderson, Jack Smedley and Aidan O'Rourke – lend their talents to seven of the tracks. Nothing ground-breaking it's true, but all beautifully done.
Keith Bruce
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