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Black Mountains Revisited
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Fernhill vocalist Julie Murphy's outstanding solo album with accompaniment by some of the finest acoustic players of the present-day. Featured artists include slide guitar wizard Martin Simpson and the legendary double bassist Danny Thompson as well as hurdy-gurdy maestro Nigel Eaton, Julie's partner in the innovative duo Whirling Pope Joan. Black Mountains Revisited (BEJOCD-26) was released on 7 June 1999

Julie was cover feature artist in the June 1999 issue of Folk Roots magazine.

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Also by Julie Murphy:
Lilac Tree (2002)
Whilia (with Fernhill)
Ffawd with Dylan Fowler

'Excellent solo album. She is possessed of a wonderfully warm and emotive voice' - Time Out
MOJO - FOLK ALBUM OF THE MONTH! (September 1999)
'It's been an unlikely journey for Murphy. From Essex to Wales via Brittany, Swaziland, Pakistan, Kenya and heaven knows where else, she now reinvents the tradition with the ardour and wholly original sense of drama of someone with the natural instinct for the uninhibited passion of folk song and no inkling of the unwritten rules that habitually curse its performance. She tackles well known traditional songs and themes like Polly Vaughan, Black is the Colour, Sylvie and The Farmer and turns them inside out, modernising lyrics, adding tunes, shifting the meaning, offering strange arrangements, deep atmospherics. It's a dark, mysterious album that doesn't make light listening, but a distinguished supporting cast, including Danny Thompson on double bass, Nigel Eaton on hurdy gurdy, Stacy Blythe on piano and Martin Simpson on guitar draw you in when the going gets tough.'
'A work of great power, ambition and accomplishment' - Songlines (Editor's choice of top ten new releases)

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