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Artist:	BAIRD, MEG
Title:	Dear Companion
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	DC 340CD

"There was a time when traditional music was just folk -- a time when folk wasn't hyphened up with words like psych and rock and pop. It was just there on its lonesome, like a lone girl and guitar. That's what you hear on Meg Baird's Dear Companion. Her lyrical singing and songwriting imbues the sound of the psych-folk group (see, there we go again) Espers, but this is Meg's solo debut. Traditional songs are of such great age that it is not known where they began. They are lost to time, for a world to pick on and interpret. With songs like 'The Cruelty of Barbary Allen,' 'Willie O' Winsbury,' and the title track, Meg interprets the old airs with voice and fingerstyle picking. Mixing traditional songs with her original compositions lends the album its variety. She further mixes it up by reaching for some deep cuts from a few records most of us haven't yet heard. Sure, there's a Jimmy Webb song, we're good with that -- but we've got Meg to thank for all our future listens to Fraser & DeBolt (whose delightful 'The Waltze Of the Tennis Players' is covered) and Chris Thompson. And her cover of The New Riders of the Purple Sage song 'All I Ever Wanted' will make your heart explode in a way the NRPS version never did -- gently."

Artist:	BAIRD, MEG
Title:	Seasons On Earth
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	DC 470CD

"Why if it ain't young Maggie Baird! Wandering down the lane in distraction, yet forward and with purpose, our Miss Meg is back among us with her first new record in four years. Seasons on Earth reflects on at least a dozen or so of the things we call 'seasons.' Their passing has clearly left her the stronger for it. Meg is a thoughtful, spiritual, scientific and skeptical young woman who hears from and speaks back to the world in music. The pristine quality of her voice is the face whose placidity conceals a tangle of thoughts and sensations, and the guitar behind it conveys those complexities with tenacity and clear articulation. Her 2007 solo debut, Dear Companion, was in some ways a record about records, and those who hear and collect them. For that album, Meg sang eight songs by other singers, adding two of her own. Seasons on Earth places itself within the community of singers, songwriters and players; resilient, even rebellious in selfhood, assured of a place to go when the music's over. Here there is a feeling to be tapped, songs to be written -- so Meg has written them, saving room for a couple old favorites that fit well with her new work. This is a vision of Meg's music that moves beyond the boundaries of Dear Companion, encompassing production, group playing and Meg's world view to make a more social record, an album that revels with friends and neighbors while observing with a fresh and free sense of itself."

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