Track Listing

1. Bright Phoebus
2. Evona Darling
3. Scarecrow
4. Never the Same
5. Song For Thirza
6. Piper's Path
7. Child Among the Weeds
8. Shine
9. Danny Rose
10. Winifer Odd
11. Marvellous Companion
12. One of Those Days
13. Fine Horseman
14. Red Wine Promises
15. Bright Phoebus

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #98069 in Music
• Released on: 2002-07-08
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .16 pounds

Amazon.co.uk Review
If Shining Bright sounds like a roll call for the British folk music fraternity, that only reflects the pedigree of the artists who this album was made in tribute to. Three decades after Mike and Lal Waterson released their ground-breaking cult album Bright Phoebus, and four years after Lal’s untimely death, this collection celebrates their music. Shining Bright resurrects many of the songs on the original album, along with several others written in the same fruitful era. The Waterson family is of course well represented, with Norma and her husband Martin Carthy as well as their daughter Eliza and her band, plus Lal’s son Oliver Knight. Non-members of English folk music’s most famous dynasty include Billy Bragg, Maddy Prior, Linda and Richard Thompson (no, not on the same track!), Blue Murder and Christy Moore. The arrangements are as varied as the personnel, ranging from Dick Gaughan’s minimal guitar and voice to John Pashley’s Phoenix New Orleans Parade band. In between there are rowdy folk rock-outs, a string quintet and even an oud. As on any tribute album, even if not all the voices have equal appeal, what really shines through is the wistful leftfield folk poetry of Lal Waterson, whose death robbed British folk of one of its darkest horses. --Jon Lusk