Lest we forget, now that Rufus Wainwright has an album in the top ten and Martha Wainwright is being -justly- feted at home and abroad, that as well as descending from the eponymous Loudon they both owe at least a half of their sparkling musical talents to their mother,Kate Mc Garrigle.
She was one half of Kate and Anna Mc Garrigle a folksy pair of sisters who sang the sort of songs which made the short hairs stand up straight.
Despite having a brief vogue in the seventies they fell out of favour during the eighties and ninties and have only now managed to find themselves a record company prepared to take them on.

As well as singing together in wonderful sisterly harmonies, harmonies which always had an exciting folksy edge,they wrote the most fabulous songs, songs recorded by people like Emmylou Harris and Kirsty Mc Call.
Their “Heart like a wheel” and “Jigsaw Puzzle” would always be in my all time top ten.

At last someone has brought out some more of their songs and this time, just to further win me over, the new album is all in French.

To call this a new album is perhaps a bit of an exageration, all of the tracks seem to have been recorded in the seventies but it seems that only a few of them found their way on to previous albums.

One song, which is new to me, has the appearance of a Breton Folk song, maybe it is French Canadian, but En Filant Ma Quenouille is in itself worth buying the CD for.

It would be great to think that they might sell a few copies, if only on the backs of the talented next generation.
Our daughter Eileen was alerted to the production by hearing it played in HMV.
It would be interesting to see if they would have the same appeal to this generation as they did to mine.