If her surname evokes, by homonymy, the great hours of British rock, it's to the
community of Laurel Canyon, on the other side of the Atlantic, that the frail
London singer of Irish origin sets her sights. The folk scene of the late 1960s,
driven by Crosby, Stills & Nash, Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne and The Byrds, is
at the heart of this young singer, guitarist and pianist's musical recipe.
Encouraged by her eight brothers and sisters, this precociously gifted musician
has drawn on this glorious past to create ten bewitching sepia-toned tracks with
an old-fashioned charm, which...