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Graham Clark
Music Features Writer
@Maxximum23Clark
12:23 PM 20th September 2014
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Album Review - Jane McDonald - The Singer Of Your Song

 
Yorkshire's very own Jane McDonald's latest album, The Singer of Your Song, is a collection of some of her favourite songs. It would be easy to criticise her but you cannot deny she has a powerful voice and she makes the songs on this album her own.

The album was recorded in London, Surrey and Prague and is produced by Nigel Wright who produced the early albums from Shakatak.

Here Comes the Sun, the Beatles classic is re-invented and starts off as a piano ballad before it rejuvenates into the more familiar track we know. The title track of the album, The Singer of Your Song suits her voice perfectly whilst The Stylistics Betcha by Golly Wow does not loose any of the soulfulness of the song when Jane sings it.

The album consists of mainly ballads but she takes it up a step with You've Made Me So Very Happy and shows the richness of her voice.

Never one to rest on her laurels, a UK tour is taking place this autumn which calls at St Georges Hall in Bradford on 18th October and then at the end of the year she is appearing in panto in Birmingham with Chris Gascoyne (Coronation Street's Peter Barlow), Gary Wilmott and Duncan James from Blue.

The album was released on 15 September and I give it 3 out of 5.