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Kitty Donohoe : Northern Border
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Mature, strong songwriting with Irish overtones & elements of bluesy folk.
Genre: Folk: Modern Folk
Release Date: 2008
Northern Border
Kitty Donohoe
Record Label: Roheen Records
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1. Come On Girls 3:39 + MP3 $0.99
2. When I Was the Queen 4:39 + MP3 $0.99
3. Pierre and Marie 3:24 + MP3 $0.99
4. Dangerous Boys-O 3:27 + MP3 $0.99
5. Winter Dark 2:58 + MP3 $0.99
6. Kid With a Gun 3:28 + MP3 $0.99
7. 100% Chance of the Blues 4:23 + MP3 $0.99
8. Shady Grove 4:25 + MP3 $0.99
9. There Are No Words 5:11 + MP3 $0.99
10. Every Small Thing 5:18 + MP3 $0.99
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Album Notes

“Northern Border” is my 4th songwriter CD (not including an all-Michigan family project). The title has more to do with a feel than an actual songwriting theme. Living a stone’s throw from the Canadian border, my music is strongly inflected with the accordions, fiddles, and pipes that are common sounds in their music, as well as being an inherent sound from my Irish heritage. There’s a moodiness sometimes, questioning,exuberance, earthiness...all of the elements that define us as humans! I have some great guest artists on this release, such as Jan Krist and Claudia Schmidt, Tyler Duncan, Jeff Taylor and others. Not to mention David Mosher, producer, friend, and “uber-instrumentalist”.

Only one review so far, but it’s a goodie!

“Donohoe’s lyric-writing is at a new level. ‘Northern Border’ hums with the themes of maturity and celebration, especially the “sweet October” of the year and of our lives, and an appreciation for the short season of light we have here at the northern border.
...[includes] a notable new version of “There Are No Words,” the song she wrote on September 11, 2001. If voices are weapons, Donohoe commands a battleship - she sings not just with power but with authority, and the hair-raising, octave-jumping crescendo at the song’s end [100% Chance of the Blues] is a high point.” Lansing State Journal

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REVIEWS

Northern Border
author: nan anderson
                            
Rich Warren (WFMT Midnight Special) was right to include this terrific CD in his 10 best list of 2008!

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The Blues
author: Paul Shultz
                            
Kitty has a broad range and her voice just begins to show that in "100% Chance of Blues." I think she is a secret blues singer who could make a home in Lake Charles or New Orleans as well as in the the North Country.  Give it a shot, Kitty, you have the voice and the range for the bayou...

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Northern Border
author: Paul Shultz
                            
Excellent blending of voice, music, lyrics, diversity, and range.  But a fifth star really goes to the potential stemming from "100% Chance of the Blues."  This makes me think Kitty should go down on the Bayou.  What I really believe is that her voice is trying to tell me is that she shouldn't be in that Northern Border country, but in Lake Charles, Lafayette, New Orleans, Avery...I get the feeling Kitty is a secret blues singer, who just needs to get down there on the Louisiana highway...:)

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author: Adrianne M O'Shaughnessy
                            
I think I have all your CD's now except Bunyan and Banjoes. I heard you sing on 9/11 at the Pentagon and loved There are no words, fell in love with your voice that folky Celtic sound is great. I'm a big fan of Cherish the Ladies and now a fan of yours Thanks Adrianne

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