2025 Charity Shop Purchases #36 - Karine Polwart - This Earthly Spell.
I think that I am on record on these pages in saying that I would take any opportunity to pick up any album by Karine Polwart that I haven't got
By my reckoning I now have 8 of her 9 albums although my copy of Fairest Floo'er is a burn so technically doesn't count.
I have picked up three so far this year all from the same charity shop on Glasgow's Battlefield Road. I wonder if they were all handed in by the same person.
The latest acquisition as you can see above is This Early Spell from 2008 released on her own label Hegri Music which is a subsiduary of Proper Music. It was released only thee months after Fairest Floo'er and contains original compositions with the exception of the first track The Good Years which has words by Edwin Morgan and music by Karine and which appeared on Ballads of the Book project a collaboration between Scottish musicians and writers.
As you would expect from Karine the music and songs are of the finest order as demonstrated below.
Only an upgrade of Fairest Floo'er and 2021's Still As Your Sleeping with Dave Mulligan to get.
I have still yet to find any of Karine's albums in a charity shop. Clearly I need to try further north.
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