Folk Album Review: Paul McKenna Band
PAUL McKENNA BAND **** Between Two Worlds Greentrax CDTRAX333, £11.74
Bursting with enthusiasm and tight, driving rhythm, this young Scots band has been polishing its performance over the past few years, taking its Scots/Irish amalgam of contemporary roots music round the folk club and festival circuit. Guitar, bouzouki, cittern, flute, fiddle and heartbeat-steady bodhran provide deft instrumental textures and two sets of dance tunes. Mainly up-tempo, the pace relaxes in Burns' 'Lea Rig', and swings along with delicious harmony in McKenna's own tune to the evergreen 'Jolly Beggar'.
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