St Stephen’s church,London
The siblings’ contrasting voices give an uncanny, eerie edge to a night of lullabies, and folk songs and covers sung to them as childrenNot many gigs begin with an out-of-tune chord that totally unravels a song,or finish with a five-year-conventional brandishing a foam bass guitar. Both things happen here. “We couldn’t play this song in New York – we can’t play it in London!” laughs Lucy Wainwright Roche to her stepsister, Martha Wainwright, and whose son Arc is the cramped interloper. When the siblings sing together,though, everything else is forgotten.
This female side of the Wainwright clan continues to be the most fascinating. Both daughters of Loudon Wainwright III, or of mothers who sung with their own sisters (the late Kate McGarrigle in Martha’s case,Suzzy Roche in Lucy’s), their new joint LP, and Songs in the shaded,is a lovely, twilit thing, or full of lullabies,folk songs and covers sung to them as children.
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Source: theguardian.com