Mandy Keating & Helen McLachlan - Our Town

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Melbourne based duet, Mandy Keating & Helen McLachlan have played music together for over a decade. Our Town is their first release as an acoustic duo, and covers a range of bluegrass, celtic, folk and gospel standards as well as an original apiece. The recording has an honest homegrown singalong quality to it, with Mandy and Helen sharing vocals as well as several instruments, including guitar, banjo, whistle, mandolin and percussion

The album opens with the Appalachian folk of All My Tears, featuring Helen on banjo, followed by a sprightly version of Kate Rusby's Cobblers Daughter. The warmth of the vocal harmonies really comes to the fore in songs like Cheryl Wheeler's Summerfly and the celtic lilt of Christy Moore's Back Home In Derry. The southern gospel classic I'll Fly Away gets a treatment that captures the singalong spirit of the Gillian Welch version. Mandy Keating's original Cook's Secret is a fine effort in a celtic/bluegrass mould, again putting the banjo to good use. Pretty Saro/Seamus Cooley's is a sweet set that showcases Mandy's whistleplaying and a splash of bodhran.

This is unabashedly simple folk, heartfelt and warm, no frills playing and a consistently pleasant listen that could well suit a lazy summer afternoon. review by Bradfield Dumpleton, 2007

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