Tracks
- Light Flight
- Once I Had a Sweetheart
- Springtime Promises
- Lyke Wake Dirge
- Train Song
- Hunting Song
- Sally Go 'Round the Roses
- The Cuckoo
- House Carpenter
Basket of Light is a beautiful album. The songs are folk, but they sound like something you'd hear at some village festival in England during the Middle Ages. Because of the strong presence of the bass and percussion, it's also one of the harder sounding folk albums that I've heard. What improves many of the songs greatly is the addition of the sitar. It's as if the Indian sitar were invented with Western folk music in mind.
I love this album. It's one of those albums where I knew right away that it would become one of my favorite albums. Everything about it is near perfect. I guess it's obvious from my reviews of folk albums that I like folk music. My subjectivity aside, I do think this is an album worth listening to, if not owning. As folk albums go, it's been the most accessible so far for non-folk listeners.
All the songs are worth listening to. All are stand outs because they all sound great and each is unique from all the others.
★★★★★★★★★★
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