专辑简介

Mary McPartlan has created something absoutely wonderful on From Mountain to Mountain because she has not only crafted a remarkable tribute to the original "Mother of Folk", as Jean Ritchie came to be known during the 1960s, but she has also shaped compelling new arrangements while retaining the spirits of the songs. The instrumentation finds some of the best musicians from the West of Ireland, New York and Appalachia joining forces to offer a thing of rare beauty and feeling. And then there is that voice, so full and big that one can get carried away by it, pulling us along on a journey that goes back centuries, over mountains and valleys and oceans, winding through the lives of our ancestors, joining us in the way that only the true magic of great music can.

An extract from the sleeve notes by Silas House (Writer & Novelist, Kentucky, USA)