Search - Katy Moffatt :: Cowboy Girl

The best of the West!

Frank Sturgis | usa | 09/21/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I bought this because it was on the same label as Cowboy Nation so I took her home and I was totaly blown away buy the realism and feeling her voice has.
If your gonna plunk down 15 bucks this is the one to get!"

One of America's greatest overlooked singers

Peter Durward Harris | Leicester England | 10/10/2002

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is an album of folk-country music sung in a very traditional style, with only guitar, bass and mandolin to support Katy's lovely alto voice. The theme of this album happens to be cowboys, but it's actually a great collection of (mostly) story songs, sung by somebody who clearly loves the music.Katy wrote two of the songs (Black-eyed Caballero, Magdalena and the jack of spades), while her brother Hugh, also a fine singer, wrote another (The ghost light of Marfa). The others are from a variety of sources, including Joe Ely (Indian cowboy), Norman Blake (Ol' Bill Miner) and Tom Russell (Hallie Lonigan), but also several much older songs. By far the most famous is The wayward wind, a song I never tire of hearing, especially when it's done as well as it is here.This album is not one to be played as a background to whatever else you are doing - it requires and deserves your dedicated attention. For that reason alone, it will never sell in huge quantities, but many of those who do buy it will appreciate it all the more. Albums like this are few and far between."