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FOR BLONDE ON THE TRACKS

“Her high, clear voice highlights each syllable, letting you hear the words form, one seemingly following inevitably from the other, until they feel handed down, fragments of an old song now speaking to each other.”
— Greil Marcus
“Swift navigates Sansone’s majestic folk-rock arrangements like the able captain of a frigate sailing over shimmering seas.”
— Bud Scoppa
“Nobody has ever sung Dylan quite like this Nashville-based Australian singer-songwriter, nor with such a rare interpretive gift…comparable to Emmylou Harris’s Wrecking Ball in its intent, execution and intimacy.”
— Andrew Stafford
“Rarely has he been covered so tenderly as on this quietly impressive (and wittily titled) collection by Australian-born, Nashville-based singer-songwriter Emma Swift. The result is eight great songs sung anew with empathy and sensitivity.”
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“There’s a purity to this collection that allows both Dylan’s poetry and Swift’s emotion to shine; she embodies tracks like “Simple Twist of Fate” in a way that makes it feel like she wrote it herself.”
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“In her signature slowcore style – Swift describes her special talent as being the anti-Paul McCartney: able to take a sad song and make it sadder” – but with elements of jangly ’60s guitars (Queen Jane Approximately), moody country (One Of Us Must Know) and soul (Going Going Gone), she finds a way to soothe and enrich, just as the songs had done for her. ”
— Bernard Zuel
 
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