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» Other // 2009-06-12 07:25:58

Kirsty McGee is a quirky UK based singer-songwriter working in the folk / roots / Americana field. Her latest album was made in Kansas with maverick producer Mike West and features long-term musical partner Mat Martin on banjo, guitar and junk percussion. a foot-stompin', porch rockin', banjo-dappled carny shuffle. press quotes regarding 'the kansas sessions' : 'if you're unfamiliar with kirsty mcgee and you don't read the small print (boo hewerdine, capercaillie, karine polwart etc.), you'd never guess she hails from this side of the atlantic. the kansas sessions is sheer, banjo-dominated americana from its tom waits-like washboard blowouts (no less than three musicians are credited with 'junk') to its clarinet soliloquies, recorded at the evocatively named ninth ward pickin' parlour in lawrence, KS. no surprise that a maverick review cites the coen brothers, and there's certainly enough of the offbeat in the restless tempos and illicit still-cum-dixieland arrangements to justify that. mcgee can neo-yodel with the best of them (check out opener bonecrusher), yet there's also, in the sensuous, deliberate turn of her phrase and her bare-bulb lyrics, a hint of an anglophone lhasa or even madeleine peyroux, and it's through clarinet-whispering ballads like sandman which she really inhabits her brand of waymarked noir.' - HMV ‘the kansas sessions is full of beautifully produced, immediately accessible, joyously engaging music that, like a carnival barker, draws you inside to take a closer look at the disturbing, the weird and the wonderful. if it was a film, it would be a coen brothers' film, full of startlingly arresting images, visual grace and impossibly cool moments of rich, dark humour.’ - maverick Do pop by and visit while you're online...