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MARRY WATERSON AND DAVID A. JAYCOCK - Death Had Quicker Wings Than Love

Name: MARRY WATERSON AND DAVID A. JAYCOCK – Death Had Quicker Wings Than Love
Item: Death Had Quicker Wings Than Love
Rating: 6.5
Author: Roberto Mandolini

2017 (One Little Indian)

folk

by Roberto Mandolini

6.5

Marry Waterson seems to have found a fruitful artistic marriage with guitarist David A. Jaycock (The Big Eyes Family Players). After two albums shared with her brother Oliver Knight at the start of the decade, it was the work of two years ago, “Two Wolves” (One Little Indian, 2015), that narrowed the distance between Marry and her forebears in the folk pantheon.

“Death Had Quicker Wings Than Love”, the title of her new album, is a quote from John Wesley. Reading and writing have always been a refuge for the English musician, who began singing on her parents' records as a child: “I write by taking shelter between the sheets, I hide away. My father once found me in my bed surrounded by sheets of paper and notebooks - it's as if there's a black hole inside me that can only be filled through writing”.

A dark, melancholy atmosphere envelops all ten ballads on the tracklist of “Death Had Quicker Wings Than Love”, arranged with the guitars played by Marry (acoustic) and David (acoustic and electric). A steady voice and brilliant fingerpicking tell stories of stormy love affairs ending in tragedy. Tales best heard by a fireside in winter.

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05/12/2017

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This article is an English translation of the original Italian text by Roberto Mandolini, published on OndaRock.it. It was translated with the help of artificial intelligence, under the editorial responsibility of OndaRock's editor-in-chief, Claudio Fabretti.

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