Linda Ronstadt/Ann Savoy...Adieu False Heart

[KiwiCoromandel]

Now here's a strategy. Take a bunch of contemporary songs and record them so they sound as though they were all written a couple of hundred years ago.

The technique is simple. Get Andrea Zonn on viola- this will wash the whole record in an antique aural sepia. Then pick a group of alt.country and bluegrass players (Dirk Powell on fretless bass, Buddy Miller on guitar, Sam Bush on mandolin) for your group and sing in close harmony, as though you have just stepped out of a backwoods Southern Baptist church. The result is delightful.

Here, American West Coast darling Linda Ronstadt joins great Cajun singer Ann Savoy, and the material they choose, apart from a number of tunes sung in French, ranges from Richard Thompson's King of Bohemia and Burns' Supper through the Left Banke's Walk Away Renee to Kevin Welch's Too Old to Die Young and Bill Monroe's The One I Love Is Gone.

This is an album of sweet harmonies, delicate porch songs and old Deep South values designed to appeal to the millions who bought O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Artist

Linda Ronstadt and Ann Savoy

Genre

Country/Blue Grass, Pop

Label

Vanguard

source:AP

image:AP:American West Coast darling LINDA RONSTADT joins great Cajun singer ANN SAVOY...