Beautiful Twisted

by Sharron Kraus

Beautiful Twisted cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 31 March 2002
  • Label: Camera Obscura
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 46:06
  • Community rating: 3.65/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'Beautiful Twisted' collects eleven songs written entirely by Kraus and recorded by Ron Guensche at New Future Vintage Studios, with Guensche contributing upright and electric bass, lap steel guitar and mandolin. Amy Clay and Tracy Farbstein share the fiddle parts across the album, and the record was listed in Rolling Stone magazine's critics' top albums list.

Genres

Descriptors: Lo Fi, Acoustic, folk, acoustic, storytelling, fragile, traditional

Tracklist

  1. The Peacock's Wing (05:06)
  2. The River's Daughter (03:32)
  3. Moonbathing (04:01)
  4. The Family Tradition (04:30)
  5. Twins (04:37)
  6. Cold-Hearted Devil (04:49)
  7. Death Jig (01:15)
  8. The Wrong Man (04:53)
  9. Godstow (02:56)
  10. Beautiful Twisted (06:16)
  11. Song of the Unfree (04:11)

Credits

  • Sharron Kraus - primary artist, written-by, vocals, guitar, vocals, 5-string banjo, vocals, guitar, whistling, vocals, whistling, percussion, vocals, guitar, whistling, keyboards
  • Dean Welch - guitar, vocals
  • Cheryl Roder-Quill - design
  • Barron Bixler - photography by

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