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Cruel Sister | 
| Artist: Rachel Unthank
Label: Rabble Rouser
Category: Music
List Price: £13.99
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 952
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 827565009725
EAN: 0827565009725
ASIN: B0009HLBI4
Release Date: October 2, 2006
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| Tracks:
| • | On a Monday Morning | | • | January Man | | • | Fair Rosamund | | • | Cruel Sister | | • | Rap Her To Bank | | • | Raven Girl | | • | Twenty Long Weeks | | • | The Fair Flower of Northumberland | | • | The Greatham Calling On Song | | • | River Man | | • | Bonnie At Morn | | • | John Dead | | • | Troubled Waters |
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| Customer Reviews:
See "The Bairns" develop November 22, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This CD stands alone as an original creative piece with a touching mood all of its own. In context, as their first album (subsequently followed by "The Bairns"), it illustrates the beginnings of their unique sound which famously combines authenticity and individuality. If you're new to Rachel Unthank and the Winterset, start with "The Bairns", their second and most recent offering (simply breathtaking), and then treat yourself to "Cruel Sister" because you will want more, and this will help put their journey in context.
Best folk Album for a long time July 22, 2006
8 out of 15 found this review helpful
This is a great recording from the first soulful and oh so true song to the last we are treated to music at its best.
I cannot wait for the follow up
Grassroots Superbness June 14, 2006
23 out of 24 found this review helpful
To listen to Cruel Sister is to remind yourself of what folk music really is: people with appreciation for tradition, their own ideas, the talent to combine them, the sensitivity to do it well and the enthusiasm to love doing it. Rachel and Becky Unthank have all this, and the spread of songs on here show that clearly. Whether it's familiar songs such as the title track (albeit in an interpretation unfamiliar to me), local North-Eastern songs like Rap Her To Bank or the superb acappella of The Fair Flower Of Northumberland, or more recent pieces like River Man, the skill is almost as apparent to the listener as the amount of fun they're clearly having.
Comparisons with June Tabor have been made by some reviewers, and while I'm not sure the Unthanks are quite in that league yet, at this rate they will. They do already share with Tabor that amazing ability to absorb and amplify the innate emotional quality of the songs they sing. Rachel especially has a most expressive voice. Accompanists Brenda O'Hooley and Jackie Oates, completing The Winterset, mark another similarity to June Tabor's music in their quiet, almost minimalist power, elegant simplicity and gravity, and are fantastically apt for the Unthank sisters' voices.
In annual visits to Hexham Gathering folk festival I've seen the Unthanks go from (undeservedly) little-regarded also-ran performers to headliners. I'm so glad they've managed to make this mark on the wider world at last. It's just a shame this CD doesn't have any video footage of their superb clogging as a hidden extra; perhaps for the next album?
Haunting, real, what a story their music brings.. Fabulous February 19, 2006
13 out of 16 found this review helpful
I love this music. The Unthanks bring the past and all it means to us, and what it makes us. Having been to see them live at the Komedia theatre in Brighton, I was captivated by their live performance. They are also great entertainment in between songs. Belinda O’Hooley as well as being a fantistic pianist could perform stand up as another career. Please don't though. They are going somewhere special, they are raw, hungry for success and encaptivating.
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