{"id":71147,"date":"2023-12-15T09:17:02","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T09:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geels.net\/?p=71147"},"modified":"2023-12-15T09:17:02","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T09:17:02","slug":"barbara-dickson-goes-back-to-her-roots-in-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geels.net\/beauty\/barbara-dickson-goes-back-to-her-roots-in-new-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbara Dickson goes back to her roots in new album"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Barbara made her name on the 60s folk circuit before breaking big with enchanting pop hits, including Another Suitcase In Another Hall and her chart-topping duet with Elaine Paige, I Know Him So Well.<\/p>\n

Now, at 76, the self-styled puritanical Scotswoman returns to her Fife folk club roots for her 38th album.<\/p>\n

The sadness in Barbara\u2019s voice has always been uniquely moving and it\u2019s put to effective use on the haunting and delicate The Maid Of Norway.<\/p>\n

Misery abounds here. Not least on Willy\u2019s Drown\u2019d In Yarrow \u2013 a Scottish border ballad about a girl who finds her absent lover\u2019s body face down in their local river. The Banks O\u2019 Red Roses is another old and morbid folk tale about a rogue who takes a young woman to the banks of another river and stabs her with a knife.<\/p>\n

Reynardine, popularised by Fairport Convention in 1969, tells the chilling story of a werewolf who entices beauties to his mountainside castle for an undisclosed but presumably wretched fate.<\/p>\n

The 11 tracks are a mix of original songs, covers and traditional folk numbers embroidered with strings, Uilleann pipes \u2013 Irish bagpipes \u2013and the occasional bouzouki.<\/p>\n

There are lighter, poppier moments. Opener Moonlight And Gold perks up in its second minute and there\u2019s a hypnotic take on The Beatles\u2019 Tomorrow Never Knows. But an air of melancholy hangs over the album like a thick Highland mist.<\/p>\n

The Dunfermline-born star \u2013 Scotland\u2019s best-selling female singer \u2013 is about to pull the plug on live shows with a farewell tour in February.<\/p>\n

She will continue to write songs and record for the sheer pleasure of it and for the delight of her fans. For Barbara, fame was the by-product of her talent, never an end in itself.<\/p>\n

Making music has always been her primary goal.<\/p>\n