Oates,Jackie Hyperboreans CD

2009 release from the British singer/songwriter and former member of Rachel Unthank & the Winterset. Hyperboreans is the coming-of-age album for Jackie. Produced by her brother Jim Moray and featuring a title track written for her by Alasdair Roberts, it sizzles with a new confidence and maturity. Her uniquely beautiful vocal comes to the fore throughout the album adding a new freshness to traditional songs including 'The Pleasant Month of May' and 'Young Leonard'. There is a show-stopping and deeply moving rendition of 'Past Caring' based on a poem by Australian Henry Lawson as well as a joyfully breezy cover of 'Birthday' by the Sugarcubes. The album concludes with an unforgettable performance of 'May the Kindness' by little-known Devon songwriter Dave Wood. One Little Indian.

1. The Miller and His Three Sons 2. Hyperboreans 3. Locks and Bolts 4. The Pleasant Month of May 5. Past Caring 6. Sheffield Grinder/The Mavis 7. Young Leonard 8. Birthday 9. The Isle of France 10. The Butcher's Boy 11. May the Kindness