Rachel Harrington - The Bootlegger's Daughter 2007

Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Gillian Welch... Rachel Harrington! These kinds of top-notch comparisons don't seem far-fetched at all given the extraordinary excellence of this likeable Seattle musician's debut album.

Currently she's creating quite a stir in all kinds of Americana charts on both sides of the Atlantic with her handmade acoustic sound between folk and country with a dash of bluegrass. This here's definitely the real stuff! 'The Bootlegger's Daughter' features ten tracks: Seven smashing original compositions plus "Up The River" by her better-known colleague Laura Veirs, Mississippi John Hurt's "Louis Collins" and "Farther Along" - an invitation to a gospel singalong as album closer. Harrington's voice is wonderfully appropriate to this kind of music conveying sadness and hope at the same time while sounding quite natural and original.

The album features a host of well-known studio cracks like pedal steelers Marty Muse (Dwight Yoakam, R.E. Keen) and Mike Grigoni (Korby Lenker), Zak Borden (Willy Mason), Danny Barnes (Tim O'Brien, Bad Livers) on banjo, John Reischmann (Laurie Lewis, Neko Case), and others.

Tracklist:

01. Sunshine Girl
02. Shoeless Joe
03. Blow ~ The Ballad of Bill Miner
04. Up the River
05. Untitled
06. Halloween Leaves
07. Walk to You
08. Louis Collins
09. Summer's Gone
10. Farther Along