Here at Bluesbunny Towers, we like class (in everything other than women of course for otherwise we'd never get anywhere). Fortunately for us, there's a good bit of class on show in Rachel Dawick's album "Journeys".
Influences abound on this album. I don't mean musical influences from other musicians or bands but from across the world. Different places and times from Ms Dawick's life have been used to bring variety to her songs. Taking the Eastern influences in "Storm" as an example, those influences bring forth a meditative quality like some sort of mantra reconstructed into fantasy. Kind of poetic in its way. It's not an album of World music however and you also get the delightful old time charms of "Moonbeams". Sentimental yet direct at the same time, it's a bitter sweet one.
Come to think of it, the nearest parallels that I could draw to Ms Dawick are men, with the likes of Chris DeBurgh coming foremost in my mind. Whilst perhaps a touch over polite overall, "Journeys" is nonetheless an elegant and tasteful collection of songs.