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We act for Katie Buckhaven
Katie Buckhaven, from Bedfordshire, is an early contender for this year's dinner party singer-songwriter. She sounds like a few of her predecessors in the role: Dido without the electronics, Eva Cassidy without the tradegy, Katie Melua without the ex-Womble.Her debut album, championed by Michael Parkinson on Radio 2, is mostly acoustic and self-written. The strongest flavours here lie in the covers, especially Christine McVie's Songbird and Leonard Cohen's Famous Blue Raincoat - but her voice is outstanding. At the very least, she will loom large on next Christmas's chill-out compilations.
*****
Tim de Lisle
Yet another discovery by bluff, gruff Michael Parkinson, Katie Buckhaven steers clear of the vogue for turning everything into fluffy pseudo-jazz. Instead, she pursues her own form of spectral folk music. Comparisons with Tim Buckley or Portishead seem far-fetched, but in her best moments, Buckhaven hints at something unusual.Her version of Christine McVie's Songbird seems to be borne into view on a ghostly mist. She turns in a pleasantly unaffected version of Dylan's If Not for You, but doesn't shrink from the dark twists in Leonard Cohen's Famous Blue Raincoat. The clean, lucid arrangements save her from the easy-listening graveyard.
Adam Sweeting
