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Too Long in This Condition

Alasdair Roberts & Friends

Too Long in This Condition

A collection of traditional arrangements from the Glasgow-based folk musician

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7.1

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16/08/2010
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  1. 8.0 |   BBC

    It doesn’t feel like a fastidiously researched academic treatise but a warm, accessible continuation of the tradition that delights with every listen
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  2. 8.0 |   Uncut

    It's a long time since balladry has sounded this vital and primordial
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  3. 8.0 |   Mojo

    Effortlessly imbuing ancient folk song with renewed relevance. Print edition only

  4. 8.0 |   The Guardian

    He succeeds because he is a fine storyteller, making even the best-known song sound as if he wrote it, and he uses the instrumentation to good effect
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  5. 8.0 |   musicOMH

    Roberts has become such a superb storyteller that it no longer matters whether the material is traditional or his own
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  6. 8.0 |   Q

    Powerful, magical stuff. Print edition only

  7. 6.0 |   The Scotsman

    Steering us into realms of the supernatural and bloody murder, and delivering these venerable and often elemental songs in his own distinctively wayward tones
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  8. 4.0 |   The Independent

    Lover's Ghost" is illuminated by sad glints of lap steel, while a commotion of clapping and stomping on "The Daemon Lover" surrounds Roberts' astringent, no-nonsense Scots brogue
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