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black mountains revisited

by julie murphy

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oxford city 04:04
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bethel 03:25
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sylvie 05:28
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two sisters 06:06
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Julie Murphy's first solo album, released in 1999, featuring guest appearances from Martin Simpson, Danny Thompson, Nigel Eaton, Dylan Fowler, Ceri Rhys Matthews, Stacey Blythe, Lynne Denman, Neil Woollard, Kate Ronconi Woollard and Doug Robinson.

'That was truly, truly beautiful' John Peel

'It's been an unlikely journey for Murphy. From Essex to Wales via Brittany, Swaziland, Pakistan, Kenya and heaven knows where else, she now reinvents the tradition with the ardour and wholly original sense of drama of someone with the natural instinct for the uninhibited passion of folk song and no inkling of the unwritten rules that habitually curse its performance. She tackles well known traditional songs and themes like Polly Vaughan, Black is the Colour, Sylvie and The Farmer and turns them inside out, modernising lyrics, adding tunes, shifting the meaning, offering strange arrangements, deep atmospherics. It's a dark, mysterious album that doesn't make light listening, but a distinguished supporting cast, including Danny Thompson on double bass, Nigel Eaton on hurdy gurdy, Stacy Blythe on piano and Martin Simpson on guitar draw you in when the going gets tough.' Colin Irwin

MOJO ( a folk album of the year 1999 )

'A work of great power, ambition and accomplishment'
Songlines ( Top of the world CD )

credits

released January 1, 1999

Recorded by Owen Thomas and Wyn Lewis Jones at Fflach studios, Cardigan, Wales

Mixed by Owen Thomas and Julie Murphy

Produced by Julie Murphy and Owen Thomas

Artwork by Jack Jackson and Julie Murphy

All songs published by Bigtime music publishing except track 4 copyright control

Label Beautiful Jo Records, Oxford

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julie murphy Swansea, UK

Julie Murphy is a singer songwriter and member of Welsh folk innovators fernhill. She writes songs at the piano at home in the Welsh countryside. Her fourth solo album 'Every bird that flies' is available now

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