Sing for the Song

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Sing for the Song is the fifth album by the British/French Celtic-folk duo Rodney Cordner & Jean-Pierre Rudolph, released on OHM in 1990.

Long before there was a roots music revival, long before world music awareness had banished the inherent cultural naffness of being a folkie, there was Rodney, plonking on his acoustic singing haunting songs of Ireland and faith, winos hard times helped out by his trusted French fiddler Jean-Pierre. Now if there’s any justice Folk Roots magazine will be giving this major talent a front cover story and Christian festivals other than Greenbelt (GB have long since recognised the man’s talent) will be showcasing this engaging songsmith whose cracked voice with its suspect pitching and world-weary air is so phenomenally effective as it drags the poignancy and pathos out of stories-in-song. It’s a shame then that he chooses this moment to put out an album of over-familiar folk standards. We could have done with a might less trad stuff and a few of his telling compositions though Rodney’s rendition of Sydney Carter’s «Lord Of The Dance» is faultless. [Tony Cummings, Cross Rhythms, June 1991]

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CD tracklist:

01. Moving Song
02. Sing for the Song
03. Stompin’ at Decca
04. Clare to Here
05. There Were Roses
06. Finore
07. The Tipparary Tinker
08. Dunn Song
09. Paddy Ryan’s Dream / Ian Morissons’s
10. The Last House in the Street
11. The ‘appy Hornpipe / The Newcastle
12. Voyage
13. Grey Daylight / Sean Maguire (Reels)
14. Ordinary Man
15. Softy As in the Morning Sunrise
16. Gift
17. Lord of the Dance