Vic Smith of The Folk Diaryreviews All in a Garden Green by The Askew SistersSmall young women - big confident sound! Emily and Hazel are maturing intoreally top-class performers and this, their second album, shows them making considerable strides. Their playing and singing now has more emotional depth and technically their playing still makes great strides. Much of their song material is familiar but this scarcely matters when they bring so much freshness and enthusiasm to their performances. There have been many recordings of High Germany, Sweet Primroses and The Lover's Ghost but they bring something new and bright to the way that they treat them. It is in the punchy assurance in the way that that attack their dance tunes played on fiddle and melodeon that they show the most startling advance and the complicated Dorrington Lads really sparkles. There are now many stars in the firmament of young English folk performers but few are shining as brightly at the moment as the Askews |
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