The Bairns (album)

The Bairns
Studio album by Rachel Unthank and the Winterset
Released 28 August 2007 (UK)
Recorded January-March 2007
Genre Folk
Label Rabble Rouser
Producer Adrian McNally
Rachel Unthank and the Winterset chronology
Cruel Sister (2007) The Bairns (2007) Here's the Tender Coming (2009)

The Bairns was the second album by Rachel Unthank and the Winterset, which then comprised Rachel Unthank, her younger sister Becky, pianist Belinda O'Hooley and fiddle player Niopha Keegan. Released by Rabble Rouser on 28 August 2007,[1]it was nominated for the Best Album award at the BBC Folk Awards 2008[2] and also nominated for the 2008 Mercury Prize. The album debuted in the UK Top 200 Albums Chart at number 178 in the week after the Mercury Prize award ceremony.[3]

Reviewing The Bairns for BBC Music, Mel Ledgard described it as "an album with a cinematic quality, huge in dramatic atmosphere".[1] Nic Oliver, in a review for musicOMH, said it was a "remarkable album that is both contemporary and timeless". [4]

Contents

Track listing

No. Title Length
1. "Felton Lonnin"    
2. "Lull I"    
3. "Ble Bleezing Blind Drunk"    
4. "I Wish"    
5. "Blue's Gaen Oot O'the Fashion"    
6. "Lull II: My Lad's a Canny Lad"    
7. "Blackbird"    
8. "Lull III: a Minor Place"    
9. "Sea Song"    
10. "Whitethorn"    
11. "Lull IV: Can't Stop It Raining"    
12. "My Donald"    
13. "Ma Bonny Lad"    
14. "Fareweel Regality"    
15. "Newcastle Lullaby"    

Personnel

Rachel Unthank and the Winterset

Additional musicians

References

  1. ^ a b Mel Ledgard (30 July 2008). "Folk song is all about connection and communication – gifts that are second nature...". BBC Music, BBC website. http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/p39x. Retrieved 28 April 2011. 
  2. ^ "Radio 2 Folk Awards: Nominations for 2008". BBC. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/events/folkawards2008/nominations.shtml. Retrieved 29 January 2008. 
  3. ^ "Official Album Chart for the week ending 20 September 2008". ChartsPlus (Milton Keynes: IQ Ware Ltd) (369): 5–8. 
  4. ^ Nic Oliver (August 2007). "Rachel Unthank & The Winterset - The Bairns (EMI)". musicOMH. http://www.musicomh.com/albums/rachel-unthank_0807.htm. Retrieved 3 July 2011. 

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