Emily is one of Scotland's foremost singers and although only in her mid twenties 'Too Long Away' is her third studio album. It displays her many talents - traditional and contemporary singing, song-writing, arranging, accordion & pianist - to the full.
Musicians: Emily Smith - voice, accordion Jamie McClennan - fiddle, backing vocals, piano Ross Milligan - guitar Duncan Lyall - double bass Luke Plumb - mandolin Alyn Cosker - drums & percussion Sarah Murray - cello.
Media Reviews
The Guardian
Julie Fowlis and Eddi Reader have shown the different ways in which traditional influences are being reworked north of the border, and now comes this impressively varied and thoughtful set from a young singer and songwriter from Dumfries. Emily Smith plays piano and accordion, and her cool, confident, no-nonsense treatment of Robert Burns' As I Was Wandering, or the rousing folk-rock treatment of May Colvin (a traditional song of lust, revenge and death), is matched against a series of her own gentle and reflective songs....Smith deserves to become yet another new folk celebrity.
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