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Sparrow and the Workshop - Into the Wild

Review by Robert Cooke

It might be a bit much to suggest that Sparrow And The Workshop might do for folk what The Strokes did for rock ‘n’ roll at the start of the decade. Still, few other folk (or anti-folk) contemporaries have managed to rejuvenate the world’s oldest genre, by paying homage to their influences, yet without losing any of their own imagination. »

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7 track mini album vinyl with a free cd version. sparrow and the workshop are a scottish / welsh / american 3-piece from glasgow, formed in the dew of january 2008, under the heavy fog of yeast from the tennents factory. they play a stripped-down drumkit, a crashbox, a very white bass, a smallish acoustic guitar, a mellow yellow electric slide guitar and occasionally an old french violin alongside boy / girl vocal duets. sometimes, the way chicagoan jill o'sullivan warbles over packer's guitar and donaldson's drums reminds us of fairport convention when sandy denny sang with them, but also of grace slick and her psych-folk crew jefferson airplane. other times, she sings with a twang and suddenly sparrow and the hawk are a country band. they're
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