Artist: The Dry Spells
Album: Too Soon For Flowers
Released: January 2009
Label: Antenna Farm Records
Genre: Folk-Rock
Purchase date: 07 Jan 2010
Purchased from: eMusic.com
A folk-rock band from San Francisco, The Dry Spells have an early-70's vibe reminiscent of one part Fleetwood Mac and two parts Sandy Denny-era Fairport Convention. You can really feel the English folk-rock vibe on their version of the traditional English ballad "Black Is The Colour Of My True Love's Hair." I've always been a huge fan of '70s English folk-rock, and this band does it really, really well. The haunting female three-part harmony vocals and crack instrumentation put this album on high rotation on my iPod. The one stumble they make on the album is their cover of "Rhiannon" (originally by Fleetwood Mac). It's a competent, faithful cover that really doesn't fit with the rest of the album.
Rating: A-
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