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- Summary: The debut release for Martha Wainwright and her half-sister Lucy Wainwright Roche features lullabies sung by their mothers as well as songs by such artists as Woody Guthrie, Jimmie Rogers, and Townes Van Zandt.
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- Record Label: PIAS
- Genre(s): Folk, Pop/Rock
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| Go Tell Aunt Rhody | |
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| go tell aunt Rhody go tell aunt Rhody go tell aunt Rhody that everybody is... dead I was raised in a deep dark hole the prisoner with no parole they... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Nov 20, 2015As an indicator of the kind of music the Wainwrights indulged in at home while they and their many and various offspring went on to charm and dazzle the musical world, this is an invaluable document. For those who simply want a dazzling, slow sunset of a folk record with the occasional lyrical bite--the same applies.
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Nov 13, 2015he Wainwright Sisters' voices blend together perfectly, and the melodies here are calming--almost too much so. A close listen to the lyrics, though, reveals the darker side of bedtime stories.
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Nov 16, 2015Most recordings of lullabies are long on charm and short on substance, but the Wainwright Sisters have made an album that will suit a thoughtful mom or dad as much as a restless youngster, and Songs in the Dark is something special from two remarkable talents.
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UncutNov 13, 2015Disappointingly, there's a lack of biting vocal interaction between the half-sisters, nothing ti match the delectable harmonies that graced the McGarrigles or less feted Roches. [Dec 2015, p.81]
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Dec 4, 2015This is not the Music for Little People style of cute professionalism. Songs in the Dark reach back to the roots of traditional music for kids when it was sung as much to provide solace for the parents as well as to entertain the kids.
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MojoNov 13, 2015An album drenched in familiar swathes of charm, pathos, elegance and black humour. [Dec 2015, p.90]
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Q MagazineDec 14, 2015Some of it is beautiful, but perhaps they should've enlisted the help of their offbeat brother Rufus to add a bit more colour to the canvas. [Jan 2016, p.115]
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