This is Modern Folk
(Compilation, '99)
Cooking Vinyl, GRILLCD 1 (UK)


TracksCover of Modern Folk
1. The Boy Done Good
2. Both Hands (Live)
3. Sail On By
4. Call It Democracy (Live)
5. Englands New Chains
6. Burford Stomp
7. Desolation Blues
8. Arranmore
9. Between A Man and A Woman
10. Run Runaway
11. Spivaye Solovey
12. New Year's Day
13. Hard
14. Kathleen
15. Bjorn Again Polka
16. Bonny Besses

Artists
1. Billy Bragg
2. Ani Difranco
3. Oysterband
4. Bruce Cockburn
5. Rev Hammer
6. Levellers Mutineers
7. Jackie Leven
8. Goats Don't Shave
9. Andy White
10. Great Big Sea
11. The Ukrainians
12. Chuck Prophet
13. Tom Robinson
14. David Thomas
15. Edward II & the Red Hot Polkas
16. Eddi Reader as Mary Overton

Notes
This is a compilation CD from Cooking Vinyl, with the songs from the artists on their roster. This album includes Bonny Besses sung by Eddi Reader under the pseudonym.

Bonny Besses is originally included in Rev Hammer's album, Freeborn John - The Story of John Lilburne, under the credit of Mary Overton. One song by Rev Hammer himself is here too. As a side note, Jackie Leven(see track 7) also had Eddi guested as a reciter on his '95 album, The Forbidden Songs of the Dying West. Levellers Mutineers(track 6) is an alias for Levellers who also worked with Eddi on their albums.

Bonny Besses sounds dramatic with thick female back choruses. The electric guitar sounds like sitar while the piano works as a spice. I think it's a little different from songs in Eddi's albums, but it's definitely worth a listen with her superior vocal performance.

Ani Difranco's Both Hands is from her '97 double live CD, Living in Clip. Cooking Vinyl does distribution in UK for her Righteous Babe catalogs which is why this song is included.

Other standout tracks:
Sail On By by Oysterband ,has catchy melodies with some Irish flavor.

Run Runaway by Great Big Sea, sounds like Pogues to me.

New Year's Day by Chuck Prophet, who has a similar voice to Tom Petty, backed with a female singer whose singing reminds me of Harriet of Sundays.

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