Various Artists
Banished Now From My Native Shore: The Verse Of Frank
The Poet
Stobie Sounds
3.5/5
The story goes
that in 1832, a young Irishman named Francis MacNamara stole a piece of cloth
and so was sentenced to seven years transportation in Australia. It’s with Frank
the Poet, as he became known, that the foundation for this record lies; a dozen
or so of his works – the poems for which he found posthumous fame – set to
music by some of this country’s finest roots players.
The likes of Mia
Dyson, The Yearlings, Jeb Cardwell, Matt Walker and Sean McMahon bring their
roots nous to the melancholy writings of Frank, helping paint a vivid, albeit
sparse, picture of life in this country in a time when basic survival was
uppermost in everyone’s mind. It’s an
album that brings to life a time gone by, and as such, is a small piece of
history in its own right.
Samuel J. Fell
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