Lost in a Song, by Finest Kind

Lost in a Song

by Finest Kind

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1.	The Banks of Sweet Primroses 03:22	info	buy track
2.	Give Me Just a Little More Time 02:30	info	buy track
3.	The Miner's Dream of Home 02:47	info	buy track
4.	Blue Mountain 03:48	info	buy track
5.	Sussex Drinking Song 03:07	info	buy track
6.	The Night Pat Murphy Died 03:47	info	buy track
7.	The Storms May Roll the Ocean 03:12	info	buy track
8.	Goodnight Loving Trail 03:18	info	buy track
9.	Only Remembered 02:52	info	buy track
10.	Fa-Sol-La 03:40	info	buy track
11.	Going to the West 03:25	info	buy track
12.	A Handful of Maple Leaves 02:49	info	buy track
13.	Gower Wassail 03:32	info	buy track
14.	What Was I Supposed To Do? 02:56	info	buy track
15.	I Heard The Bluebird Sing 02:08	info	buy track
16.	The Faded Roses of December 04:05	info	buy track
17.	A Pilgrim's Way 05:46	info	buy track

about

An Introduction to Finest Kind

WHILE it may sound to you like overarching excessively hyperbolic, exaggerated stretching, I believe FINEST KIND to be the best vocal trio in North America. This is a safer bit of pompous prolixity than it sounds. The combination of Downey, Robb, and Posen is a grand, synergistic union that produces perfectly blending, constantly shifting harmonies.

Whether they are singing American cowboy songs, Irish comic songs. Canadian Ottawa Valley finds, choice old sentimental winners, North Carolina gospel gems, early Country Music rarities, or Utah Phillips and Peter Bellamy originals, they seem to hit just the right tone and just the right tones. Their ornate, majestic renderings of English traditional songs are downright thrilling.

Of course, there's more to it than that. FINEST KIND'S particular domain is songs that have passed from generation to generation and singer to singer, that, like collection plates, are richer with each new hand. You quickly realize, listening to this album, that whenever this bunch take their turn to contribute, they not only add a few dollars but burnish the plate. This is what folk music should be about.

Lost in a Song is FINEST KIND'S first album. Safe to say, I'm sure, more to come...

-Jeff Davis

credits

released August 1, 1996

Shelley Posen: Vocals, Guitar
Ann Downey: Vocals, Bass, Banjo.
Ian Robb: Vocals, English Concertina
With James Stephens, David Tinkoff and Ian Mackie

Recording: James Stephens at St John's Anglical Church, Kanata,
and Prince Albert Studios, Ottawa. #8 recorded by John Dooher and James Stephens at Sound of One Hand, Ottawa.

Mixing: Heat of Sound, Ottawa, except #8 & #16, mixed at Sound of One Hand, Ottawa, and #4 mixed at Heat of Sound and Sound of One Hand.

Mastering: Ross Murray, Sound of One Hand, Ottawa

Illustrations and Design: Marilyn Koop and WriteDesign
Photographs: Rosie Donovan

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Ian Robb Ottawa, Ontario

Self-described “singer and writer of old songs”, Ian Robb started out singing in English folk clubs in the 1960s, before emigrating to Canada in 1970. Since then, he has sung with Finest Kind, The Friends of Fiddler’s Green, Jiig, Arrowsmith:Robb Trio and most recently, with James Stephens. In 2005 he was awarded one of the first Canadian Folk Music Awards for “Best Singer: Traditional”. ... more

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