Octo_Russ

Various Artists [Shelter - The Best Of Contemporary Singer Songwriters]

This is a double disc set, a digipak gatefold thing, on the whole i hate these things as there's no plastic to protect the card cover, but this is a good set, i bought this expressly because it has a whole load of very interesting Artists, and the idea was to use this album as a springboard to delve into the most interesting Artists on these discs, and even though i've done some of that, i actually find that this is a worthy album to keep for its own sake, there's almost a concept to the whole thing, and the inner booklet provides a really good biography of the Artists, and their prospective albums. 

This album was the brainchild of Dan Storper, collecting together 28 contemporary Singers, who mainly write their own material, there's a certain World Music feel to the front cover [artwork by Nicola Heindl], 18 windows of different simple images, mainly revolving around music, and also in wonderful bright colours, with a wood grain effect on the back, the Artists / track listings nicely stand out, one gripe is there's no track numbers, makes it hard to know what song you're listening to, but i added tracj listings with my own pen. 

Well what can i say about some of these tracks?, my favourites are 2, 4-5, 7-8, 10, 13-14, 16, 19-20, & 24-26, with the very best being 4 & 19-20, and again i would like to give a short synopsis of these three tracks,
4 Pierce Pettis - No More Sad Songs, 
19 Ellis Paul - Last At The Table, 
20  Patty Larkin - Island Of Time,