‘Keep Your Silver Shined' by Devon Sproule
11 September 2008I didn’t manage to see Canadian-born singer songwriter Devon Sproule at WOMAD but I have been listening to her album, ‘Keep Your Silver Shined’. It’s a lovely acoustic blend of country-flavoured swing – featuring Sproule’s gentle, whispered vocals over delicately picked guitar, pedal steel guitar, brushed snare drum, bass and occasional fiddle or clarinet. At times it sounds a lot like Fairground Attraction – but with a Virginia accent rather than a Scottish one. A consistently slick album, though I would have liked more of the exuberance of its stand-out track ‘Old Virginia Block’.
posted by Robin Simpson @ 1:37 pm
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