G-Man wrote:The sumptuous "Ashes and Roses" from Mary Chapin Carpenter. An album of reflection, may be a little one paced for some, but the writing, the singing, the playing, the arrangements are simply gorgeous.
The Ashes and Roses disc finally arrived here today after a delayed issue in the UK & I'm finding myself mostly agreeing with those comments - her up and coming UK tour with Shawn Colvin should be worth seeing if you can catch it and the album comes across with a quality feel - indeed it was worth the waiting.
This latest album on our mat is "Camilla" from Caroline Herring which is rather a good listen, with Kathryn Roberts and Mary Chapin Carpenter in various harmonies on some songs, it may well be a candidate for a future classic. Although this particular album now seems to be available on CD in the UK, some albums are only available as a download like her "The Little House Songs" album was - ordering directly from the labels is something that maybe a necessity to get hold of the more 'obscure' albums, with P&P added making it even more expensive. Yet even some of the labels seem to be going down this download route.
Is it possible that once the music industry has maybe decided that releasing on CD is no longer viable will the price of downloads up to CD price levels - thereby restoring their gravy train back on track or will this just make for more illegal downloading?
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