Thea Gilmore: Don't Stop Singing – review

(Mighty Village)Thea Gilmore's second album of 2011 is, like the first, a covers collection. Unlike the first, which was a straightforward reading of Dylan's John Wesley Harding, Don't Stop Singing is based on a sheaf of Sandy Denny lyrics that had never before been put to music. If any British singer was the woman for the job, it was Gilmore, whose tender style is profoundly reminiscent of Denny's; the scores for these 10 songs are what Denny herself might have composed. There's no discernible ...

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