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Track Listings
| 1. In A Broken Dream |
| 2. Birds |
| 3. Thirteen |
| 4. Hallelujah |
| 5. The Ballad Of Easy Rider |
| 6. A Guy What Takes His Time |
| 7. Candy Says |
| 8. How Can We Hang On To A Dream |
| 9. I Started A Joke |
| 10. Easy And Me |
| 11. Spit On A Stranger |
| 12. All Apologies |
| 13. Beautiful Cosmos |
| 14. These Days |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Kathryn Williams, who claims to have recorded Relations to help herself "fall in love with music again", aims high with her choice of songs--artists covered include Leonard Cohen, Nirvana, Tim Hardin, Neil Young, Lee Hazlewood, Lou Reed, The Byrds and Big Star--but there's an essential modesty to her approach that makes Relations sound much more like affectionate homage than the usual state of affairs with cover albums; (generally colossal self-indulgences by spent or non-existent talents seeking to prop themselves up with the work of superior performers--the musical equivalent of stalkers posing for photographs with bewildered celebrities).
Not quite all of Relations works. The version of Nirvana's "All Apologies" aims for deceptive innocence, but just sounds twee. The take on Lee Hazlewood's "Easy and Me" is a nice try, but hobbled by an annoying stop-start arrangement. For the most part though, Relations is a startling collection of things that just shouldn't work, but they do. Anyone attempting Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" is dooming themselves to toil in the shadow of Jeff Buckley's definitive version, but Williams, in a live recording, applies a slightly lighter touch with tremendous results. She performs similar small miracles with Neil Young's "Birds" and The Byrds' "The Ballad of Easy Rider". --Andrew Mueller
CD Description
Fourth album from celebrated English contemporary folk singer and guitarist follows 2002's 'Old Low Light' and is a collection of cover versions of pop and rock songs from the last 30 years, recreated within the low-key acoustic template which has served her well over previous releases. Tunes versioned on this record include Python Lee Jackson's 'In A Broken Dream', The Byrds' 'Ballad Of Easy Rider', The Velvet Underground's 'Candy Says', The Bee Gees' 'I Started A Joke' andNirvana's 'All Apologies'.
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