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Last Reviews - "North Country" update on January 13, 2008 |
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Click to purchase the US Release of "North Country" from Amazon.com Click here to inquire about purchasing the Canadian Release of "North Country" Editorial Reviews July 20, 2000 North Country I bought this blind. I love this CD. It is true chicken skin music! It is addictive. The songs are haunting. I love making a new discovery. All I can say is take a chance on something you have never heard before. June 27, 2000
The best of the best In a growing genre crowded with talent, the Rankin Family is arguably the best C3 (Contemporary Canadian Celtic) group around. And North Country is their best album. The song writing is inspired and the varied voices of the brothers and sisters, from husky to sweet, knit together beautifully to create a warm, richly textured hour of music. By the way, it's worth trying to catch the Rankin Family in concert. The sisters bang out a mean step dance. February 26, 2000
A beautiful, deeply affecting album This is a suberb CD. The Rankins can lift you up, and can break your heart. I bought this CD after hearing the Rankins on a Chieftains CD. I'm so glad I did. "Rise Again", especially, almost always moves me to tears. Just beautiful. February 5, 2000 Wonderful Canadian Celtic/Pop Fusion Reviewer: Laura Haggarty from Duluth, MN I first heard the Rankins when I was living in Canada with my husband (he's from Nova Scotia). I loved their music at first hearing, and this album only grows better with each listening. As a family with Irish blood all through, and with a husband who loves all things Arcadian, this is a classic for us. Don't hesitate, you'll love the lush harmonies and fabulous vocalizations! December 10, 1999
passionate music! I became a Rankin fan a few months back when I happened upon a PBS concert special on TV. What an incredibly talented family. Their music reaches your soul. This CD happens to be my favorite. I could play it over and over and over and over........ Buy it and fall in love. Unfortunately they are no longer touring together. November 1, 1999
Lively This album really sets your feet tapping; these people have honed their skills before many audiences in Nova Scotia. I don't usually care for the English songs done by Capercaillie but the English songs of the Rankins are melodic and powerful. They need more tutoring with Gaelic language but they understand Gaelic music as they grew up in a region where thousands of Scottish Highlanders have settled. April 30m 1999
Greatness!! This album provides an awe inspiring look at East Coast Canadian Celtic music. The title song let's you envision the East Coast of Canada on a fall day and makes you proud to be or want to be a Canadian. November 30, 1998
Aw, Man! I just figured out that I have the Canadian version of this thing and that I'm missing half the songs! That is seriously bad news, because the half that I DO have make for possibly the best disk I have ever heard let alone own. Down home, happening songs that are just plain good music. I highly recommend this disk -- at least the half of it that I've heard. Undoubtedly the best folk music I have ever had the pleasure of hearing. November 4, 1998
Addictive This is easily the best work available from this wonderfully talented Canadian group. Their other albums are, to put it mildly, uneven, but every cut on this one is a winner (with the possible exception of "Grey Dusk of Eve.") There's enough variety in the material that you don't get tired of it, and you'll find this album logging lots of spin time. Four of the five Rankins are incredible vocalists, and the harmonies alone are worth the price of the disk. (Check out "Fare Thee Well, Love" and "Borders and Time.") Add to this the abilities that all five have as songwriters (though not all write on this album) and you have a marvelously entertaining listening experience. September 20, 1998
Tha i glé mhath!!(It's great!!) I should get my Gaelic teacher to write a review all in Gaelic for the Rankins!! I too was given the gift of a tape of Gaelic singers. One being the Rankin Family. It's great, uplifting music, and some of it's in Gaelic, only the greatest language created by God!! And if I was fortunate enough to afford college this year, I'd be learning Gaelic with one of the lady Rankins. Kateri September 8, 1998 The best band around This, the Rankins' fifth CD (of 7), is just as brilliant as anyone would expect from the Rankins. July 18, 1998 Wow! The sound was very uplifting and carefree. It brought back feelings of my childhood when I was blissfully unaware of most things. I first heard of the Rankin Family when I was flipping channels and came across a great sounding concert. It turned out to be a PBS biography of them. The short concert clips hooked me right away! This CD will not disappoint you! July 14, 1998 Great lyrics - great music A friend from Canada sent me a cassette of this several years back, and I found it wonderfully haunting in it's arrangement and lyrics. If you like Gaelic music done with an English twist, and enjoy good lyrics set to a Gaelic beat, then I would highly recommend this CD. (I would give the Chieftans about 3 stars because their music gets kind of boring after awhile, while tracks on this CD are anything but redundant.) Review Quotes Click to purchase the US Release of "North Country" from Amazon.com Click here to inquire about purchasing the Canadian Release of "North Country" |
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