I’m With Her – See You Around (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 40:09 minutes | 761 MB | Genre: Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © New Rounder
Behind the “I’m With Her” name is an alliance of three experts in folk, bluegrass and Americana: Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz and Aoife O’Donovan. These friends, with dense careers behind them (around a dozen solo albums between them) decided to join forces for See You Around. Recorded in Peter Gabriel’s Real World in Bath in England with Ethan Johns producing, this orgy of crystalline and sober vocal harmonies is made up of eleven original numbers and one Gillian Welch song (Hundred Miles).
The sincere and utterly natural connection between the three women creates a sepia-toned album; an intimate but never monotone symphony of a forgotten America, which they gracefully bring to life through their performances. Watkins on the fiddle and ukulele; Jarosz on mandolin and banjo and O’Donovan on synths, the three wield their instruments of choice with their normal finesse, setting storytelling before instrumental pyrotechnics. Magic.
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