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Northern
Girl
June 1993
Northern Girl
is Amy's debut album, and it was the catalyst
that brought her band Stillwaters together. On a visit to New England
from Idaho, where she had been the house entertainer at the Idaho
Rocky Mountain Ranch for three years, Amy met mandolinist Kevin Lynch,
who offered to produce an album for her. "It was a dream come
true," Amy recalls. "Not only did I wind up with my first
album, but I came out of those sessions with a band as well."
In addition to Kevin Lynch on mandolin and guitar, Matt Nozzollio
on Dobro, and Jon Swift on acoustic bass, the album features well-known
musicians from the Connecticut bluegrass scene--all friends that Amy
had made during her stay in the state.
Many of the songs on Northern Girl are from songwriters that Amy had been listening to during her formative years, like Dan Fogelberg, Karla Bonoff, Nanci Griffith, and Hank Snow. One song on the album, "The Ballad of Decker Springs," was written by Dee Street, mother of Olympic gold medalist skier Picabo Street, whom Amy had known in Idaho. Two traditional tunes, "Shenandoah" and "The Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond," both long-time favorites of Amy's, round out the album. "I had originally recorded Northern Girl to sell to the tourists out in Idaho," Amy says, "but we wound up getting quite a bit of airplay on the folk and bluegrass stations back here in the East, and I just decided to 'follow the muse' and packed up and moved back to Connecticut for good." |
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Personnel: Amy Gallatin --vocals, guitar
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"Amy has a strong voice with an admirable range and heartfelt delivery. She chooses top-flight material." --Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine "Listening to Northern Girl, it's easy to figure how she's come so far in only two years as a full-time professional. Gallatin's voice covers a broad range and is well supported on either end (and) has a fullness achieved only with the finest quality recording." --The Danbury News-Times "Northern Girl...shows off Gallatin's sweet voice and combines it with clever instrumental work to produce a country sound as it was originally envisioned." --The Hartford Courant
Song List: |
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| 1.) | The Ballad of Decker Springs |
| 2.) | Northern Girl |
| 3.) | Blue Highway  |
| 4.) | Darcy Farrow |
| 5.) | The Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond |
| 6.) | I'm Movin' On |
| 7.) | Useful Girl |
| 8.) | I Wish It Would Rain |
| 9.) | Falling Star |
| 10.) | Sutter's Mill |
| 11.) | Shenandoah |
| 12.) | Daydream Cowboy |
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