Susan McKeown, Lowlands - 52m 9s

Tracks & Durations

1. An Nighean Dubh (The Dark Haired Girl)	4:11
2. Johnny Coughlin	5:04
3. The Hare's Lament	3:13
4. Slán agus Beannacht (Goodbye and Farewell)	2:03
5. The Snows They Melt the Soonest	4:27
6. Nansaí Óg Ní Obarláin (Young Nancy Oberlin)	2:20
7. Lord Baker	8:47
8. Dark Horse on the Wind	4:41
9. The Lowlands of Holland	5:27
10. Bonny Greenwoodside	2:42
11. To Fair London Town	4:02
12. The Moorlough Shore	5:04

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Review

Susan McKeown not only has one of the finest voices in contemporary Irish music, she has wedded a profound understanding of the traditional songs of Ireland with an adventurous musical spirit. On Lowlands, her second collection of traditional songs, her connection with the roots of Celtic music is so deep that when she mixes instruments like the kora (African harp), erhu (Chinese fiddle), and tabla (Indian drum) with the less exotic violin, guitar, and tin whistle the results sound absolutely right. McKeown moved from her native Dublin to New York in 1990, an event that she says paradoxically made her feel more Irish. Songs like "The Snows They Melt the Soonest," which features the fiddling of Johnny Cunningham, and "The Lowlands of Holland," a lament about a lover's death at sea, are infused with the sense of loss and longing that haunt the emigrant in a new land. On Lowlands Susan McKeown performs a rare feat of artistic alchemy by transforming sorrow into beauty. --Michael Simmons

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