Mean Mary - Sweet

This album includes just about everything any listener could wish for from beautiful (and sometimes quirky) vocals, incredibly virtuosic playing (apparently Mary plays eleven different instruments), diverse tempo's, subject matter and styles, fourteen great songs that clock in at the better part of an hour and hugely entertaining! As I said; everything you could wish for and yet, and this is what I love even more about it, those diverse sounds and songs all fall within her natural and heartfelt country/folk boundaries, very wide boundaries for sure, but boundaries none the less! The breadth, scope and sheer expertise that has gone into the making of the whole album is often quite astounding as is the variety proving that huge diversity is possible even without ever straying out of the, admittedly wide ranging, 'roots' music boundaries.-American Roots UK