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Eddi Reader, Sings the Songs of Robert Burns

By Kenny Berkowitz

After co-writing most of her last album, 2001’s gorgeous Simple Soul, Glasgow’s Eddi Reader reaches back 200 years to the songs of Robert Burns, finding the passionate center of these old songs and making them new again. On “Jamie Come Try Me,” for instance, Reader tosses out the original melody and rearranges the verses, creating a modern song with jazz, folk, and classical elements. The accompaniments are smartly varied, from solo acoustic guitar to full acoustic band backed by the strings of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Ian Carr, Boo Hewerdine, and Colin Reid fingerpick and flatpick acoustic guitars with a warmly understated neoclassicism that’s somber one moment and playful the next. They’re joined in beautifully balanced arrangements by accordionist Phil Cunningham, cellist Christine Hanson, fiddler John McCusker, and double bassist Ewen Vernal. Wrapping her honeyed voice around a slow, mournful countermelody, Reader makes “Auld Lang Syne” sound new and sounds even sweeter pledging her love in “My Love Is Like a Red Red Rose.” (Compass, www.compassrecords.com)

This article also appears in Acoustic Guitar, September 2004

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