365 Albums 61-75

1. Indelible Grace Side A Side B 2001 (Rerelease 2008)*
2. Revolver The Beatles 1966
3. Father of the Bride Vampire Weekend 2019
4. Scribbled in chalk Karine Polwart 2006
5. Diamond Life Sade 1984
6. Pictures at an Exhibition Emerson Lake and Palmer 1971
7. Fragile Yes 1972
8. Feels Like Home Norah Jones 2004
9. Solo Rick van der Linden 1981*
10. How to save a life The Fray 2006
11. The Home Concert 2008
12. Hommage aan Rogier van Otterloo Jacobs, van Leer, van Dijk, Jacobs 1990
13. Moving Waves Focus 1971
14. Les Deux Amis Les Deux Amis Plays Focus 1985*
15. Zooming into Focus Texel 2018

(* Suitable for Sunday playing IMHO)

Karine Polwart Trio 2009

Retro Album of the Week 26 - Scribbled in Chalk

I'm not sure how I discovered Karine Polwart's second studio album Scribbled in chalk. I know that it was bit by bit and well after the release date of 2006. It has been acknowledged as a fine folk album by many. It wears its folk mantle lightly and is not afraid to use orchestra, drum kit, as necessary. It is not an obviously Scots album but the Scotsness creeps in here and there (eg the reference to gallons ie daisies on Follow the heron a favourite track of mine and the Jane Haining link). I like Maybe there's a road and Daisy a lot. Wikipedia says that the album often looks at the darker side of life with tales of sex trafficking (Maybe there's a Road), the holocaust (Baleerie Baloo, which is about the missionary Jane Haining) and the uncertainties of life (Hole in the Heart). But these stories of despair are balanced by others that describe the joy of a slower life (Take Its Own Time), of hope triumphing over cynicism (Where the Smoke Blows) and the wonder of the universe (Terminal Star). 

Karine Polwart New England

This Billy Bragg song made famous by the late Kirsty MacColl is done nicely here.