There are still plenty of good things during the course of the album’s forty-six minutes, however, such as the opening song Honey And Crumbs, with its telling combination of reassurance and heartbreak, and the touching waltz-time portrait of a street-person Mama’s Dress, also the wistful hoedown Bring Out Your Bones and the gentle memory of her late younger brother Firewater Bones (yes, there are a lot of bones referenced on the album!). I’m not quite sure why, but it could be something to do with the quality of Kim’s voice – it doesn’t sound entirely lived-in, at least in respect of her lyrics which at times exhibit an uneasy alliance between naïvety and maturity. Kim’s was a new name to me, and this record (her debut, I believe) is, despite an accomplished production from Steve Dawson, quite a tentative collection that doesn’t quite work out in the end. Kim Beggs – BLUE BONES (Black Hen Music BHMCD.
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