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Windward Away in Bloomington, MN
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Veteran Scottish folksinger
Archie Fisher
signed to American folk label
Red House Records
in the mid-'90s, but it took him until 2008 to complete and release
Windward Away
. The album is a collection of ballads in which
Fisher
plays gentle, circular fingerpicking patterns on his acoustic guitar, over which he sings in a soothing low tenor somewhat reminiscent of
Roger Whitaker
and
Gordon Lightfoot
. The themes concern rural and seagoing issues, but the music does not have an overtly Celtic feel. It is all of a piece, with one song after another sounding essentially similar, which some listeners will find calming, but others may find enervating. During the long run-up to the album,
was contacted by a studio where he had worked on an aborted album in the 1970s and received a set of master recordings from the sessions. He adds eight of them to the 11 new recordings for an appendix he calls "The Missing Master" (tracks 12-19). As well as sounding considerably younger on the tracks, he also provides more musical variety with folk-pop arrangements of traditional songs and some originals that turned up on later albums. It was a good idea to include this material with the formal
tracks, since it livens things up, at least a little. ~ William Ruhlmann
Archie Fisher
signed to American folk label
Red House Records
in the mid-'90s, but it took him until 2008 to complete and release
Windward Away
. The album is a collection of ballads in which
Fisher
plays gentle, circular fingerpicking patterns on his acoustic guitar, over which he sings in a soothing low tenor somewhat reminiscent of
Roger Whitaker
and
Gordon Lightfoot
. The themes concern rural and seagoing issues, but the music does not have an overtly Celtic feel. It is all of a piece, with one song after another sounding essentially similar, which some listeners will find calming, but others may find enervating. During the long run-up to the album,
was contacted by a studio where he had worked on an aborted album in the 1970s and received a set of master recordings from the sessions. He adds eight of them to the 11 new recordings for an appendix he calls "The Missing Master" (tracks 12-19). As well as sounding considerably younger on the tracks, he also provides more musical variety with folk-pop arrangements of traditional songs and some originals that turned up on later albums. It was a good idea to include this material with the formal
tracks, since it livens things up, at least a little. ~ William Ruhlmann
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