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The War and Treaty
01. About you Now
02. Sick, Sore & Tired
03. Harmony Street
04. September
05. I Still Believe
06. Beauty the Betrayer
07. Jigsaw Pieces
08. Lovely Friend
09. Silver Shoes
10. I Am Because
11. Dear Miss Lonely Hearts
12. The Dove Children
13. Sick Sore & Tired
14. Harmony Street

I am grateful to Copperplate Distribution for pointing me in the direction of this one. A very accessible and feel good album – imagine if you can an Irish Bonnie Raitt

 

….There is a diversity of performance styles on offer on the tracks from the cool clean laid back Sugar Babes About You Now into her own more thumping and rocky Sick Sore & Tired. The title track is a great showcase of her writing and performing. / Still Believe is a beautifully written and scored personal song about the lives we all lead but Derby puts into a few nicely performed verses.

There is an Irish saga feel to the strong Beauty the Betrayer' as she talks of everyday things backed by the pipes and unless we listen closely we think we are hearing of something from the days of the red branch knights. All you parents and grandparents listening will be enthralled by the very well observed jigsaw Pieces, listen closely, remember, smile and maybe grow misty eyed. Silver Shoes offers sentiments of a life as it changes with responsibility and parenthood while Lovely Friend and I Am Because bring us the very positive sides of maturing in life and love. Great as her writing is one of the most arresting tracks is her interpretation of Dear Miss Lonely Hearts. She gets it just right.

She closes with a sort of enigmatic The Dove Children that leaves the listener waiting eagerly for more. Nick Rossiter - Irish Music Magazine

Oonagh Derby - Harmony Street

The War and Treaty

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