Re: Kate duets

[jeffy@wam.umd.edu (Jeffrey Craig Burka)]

In article <3freal$97e@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, Llovich <llovich@aol.com> wrote:

>Hey, I have copies of all of these but the Alain Stivell (which should be
>easily availble in your local record store in the "folk music of Brittany"
>bin)

Actually, I found it in the rock section.  Maybe they got confused, what
with all the electric guitar and Shane MacGowan...  Kate's vocal part on
"Kimiad" is pleasant, but not necessarily imperative to a non-rabid
collector.  On the other hand, _Again_ is a marvelous album of rock-ish
arrangements of traditional tunes, many of which will be familiar to
followers of Loreena McKennitt...though don't be surprised if you get a
strange sense of deja vu and then spend a while trying to figure out why a
melody seems familiar.

>and the Big Country one (which is boring and I refuse to own)

You're insane.  Kate's part on "The Seer" is absolutely brilliant.  It's also
an almost full duet:  with the exception of the first verse an occasional
line here and there, Kate is singing the full lead vocal along with Stuart
Adamson.  Her voice is pretty low in the mix, and primarily on the right
channel.  It's most noticeable if you're listening on headphones or got the
balance set to the right, but once you've got a handle on the vocal tone
she's taken, it's very noticeable under other listening circumstances.

Go ahead and refuse to own it...it's your loss.


Jeff