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Taylor Park Music is pleased to announce the release of IF EVER I
RETURN. If Ever I Return follows Connie's two critically-acclaimed
recordings, Somebody (1991) and
The Wishing Well (1994), which
have sold over 80,000 copies worldwide.
In If Ever I Return, Connie explores the themes of love and
parting through the music of 18th and 19th Century Scotland and Ireland. She
has assembled some of the most moving and powerful songs in the Celtic
traditions, in both Gaelic and English, and blended them with her own
traditionally-styled compositions and one American folk song.
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If Ever I Return was recorded in the Crask of Aigas, a
village in the Scottish Highlands, and home of the album's producer,
Phil Cunningham. Dover, who was born in Arkansas and raised in Missouri,
traveled to Scotland to collaborate with Cunningham (who also produced her
two previous releases) and the other Scots and Irish musicians who joined
her on the album. Recording took place in the "Old Smiddy", the old village
blacksmith shop Cunningham has converted into a world-class studio.
Perhaps nowhere else in the world do the topics of love and parting find a
more passionate and beguiling voice than in the music of the Celts. In their
passage from generation to generation, these songs do not lose their meaning,
but offer the contemporary listener deeper insight into a subject that
transcends both centuries and nationalities.
In If Ever I Return, Connie Dover's sensitive interpretation
of traditional singing styles blends with the collective expertise of her
accompanying musicians to create an album of exceptional beauty and
integrity.
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