Monday, July 22, 2024

It Starts With a Birthstone - 200 Albums for 2024 # 159 Withered Hand & Kathryn Williams - Wilson Williams

 



Kathrym Williams has been plying her trade, oing her thing for some years now. A Liverpulian singer songwriter originally. She's now up here where I live in Newcatle. Her husband runs the artisan bakery on the corner of my block. It's doing well. Starting from scratch more than ten years back it now is becoming a veritable cottage industry wirh branches in Jesmond and elsewhere across this great city.

I just listened to Wilson Williams, her rather lovely record with Edinburgh's Dan Wilson under the Withered Hand banner. It's a lovely record of the old school. Folk by tradition but with an appreciation for Simon & Garfunkel, always a useful appreciation and trick to have up your your sleeve.

Wilson and Williams' voice dovetail and coo tigether in beautiful fashion. The record has tenderness and is built on genuine love and appreciation of the importance of music. This is a great start to the working week. You can't beat a great start to the working week. 

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