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Review: 'JACKSON, LYNN'
'Songs Of Rain, Snow & Remembering'   

-  Label: 'Busted Flat Records'
-  Genre: 'Folk' -  Release Date: '23rd October 2015'

Our Rating:
As the song goes, into every life some rain must fall. So you better watch out if it snows as well!

The Canadian singer songwriter braving the elements is Lynn Jackson. She has now reached the 8th album in a career lasting 17 years and comments somewhat jadedly "I don't think things get easier as you get older".

A certain world weariness is evident in the eleven songs presented on a record co-produced by Teenage Fanclub's Norman Blake. The sombre accompaniment of cello and piano only increases the melancholy mood.

On Sky Looks Like Rain, the opening track, Jackson sighs over days gone by and sings wistfully of "just moving to keep still".

On Long Winter the line "Let's just get through it the best we can" does not give the impression that it comes from a place of strength or resilience.

Another track is entitled Riding Out The Storm and sums up the overriding sense of resignation and fatalism on this record. By the end she is left watching time pass on Water & Glass.

Fortunately, there is beauty in this sadness so while it is far from being a party record it is neither bleak nor depressing.

Lynn Jackson's website
  author: Martin Raybould

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JACKSON, LYNN - Songs Of Rain, Snow & Remembering