Music Reviews

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <script type="text/javascript"> //OwnerIQ var __oiq_pct = 50; if( __oiq_pct>=100 || Math.floor(Math.random()*100/(100-__oiq_pct)) > 0 ) { var _oiqq = _oiqq || []; _oiqq.push(['oiq_addPageBrand','Lycos']); _oiqq.push(['oiq_addPageCat','Internet > Websites']); _oiqq.push(['oiq_addPageLifecycle','Intend']); _oiqq.push(['oiq_doTag']); (function() { var oiq = document.createElement('script'); oiq.type = 'text/javascript'; oiq.async = true; oiq.src = document.location.protocol + '//px.owneriq.net/stas/s/lycosn.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(oiq, s); })(); } //Google Analytics var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount','UA-21402695-19']); _gaq.push(['_setDomainName','tripod.com']); _gaq.push(['_setCustomVar',1,'member_name','megdavis',3]); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })(); //Lycos Init function getReferrer() { var all= this.document.cookie; if (all== '') return false; var cookie_name = 'REFERRER='; var start = all.lastIndexOf(cookie_name); if (start == -1) return false; start += cookie_name.length; var end = all.indexOf(';', start); if (end == -1) end = all.length; return all.substring(start, end); } function getQuery() { var rfr = getReferrer(); if (rfr == '') return false; var q = extractQuery(rfr, 'yahoo.com', 'p='); if (q) return q; q = extractQuery(rfr, '', 'q='); return q ? q : ""; } function extractQuery(full, site, q_param) { var start = full.lastIndexOf(site); if (start == -1) return false; start = full.lastIndexOf(q_param); if (start == -1) return false; start += q_param.length; var end = full.indexOf('&', start); if (end == -1) end = full.length; return unescape(full.substring(start, end)).split(" ").join("+"); } function generateHref(atag, template){ atag.href=template.replace('_MYURL_', window.location.href.replace('http://', '')).replace('_MYTITLE_','Check%20out%20this%20Tripod%20Member%20site!'); } var lycos_ad = Array(); var lycos_onload_timer; var cm_role = "live"; var cm_host = "tripod.lycos.com"; var cm_taxid = "/memberembedded"; var tripod_member_name = "megdavis"; var tripod_member_page = "megdavis/id17.htm"; var tripod_ratings_hash = "1738324618:d0de85d71d456fb33418313b367229fd"; var lycos_ad_category = {"dmoz":"arts\/music","ontarget":"&CAT=arts%20and%20entertainment&L2CAT=music","find_what":"save me"}; var lycos_ad_remote_addr = "209.202.244.9"; var lycos_ad_www_server = "www.tripod.lycos.com"; var lycos_ad_track_small = ""; var lycos_ad_track_served = ""; var lycos_search_query = getQuery(); </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://scripts.lycos.com/catman/init.js"></script> <script type='text/javascript'> var googletag = googletag || {}; googletag.cmd = googletag.cmd || []; (function() { var gads = document.createElement('script'); gads.async = true; gads.type = 'text/javascript'; var useSSL = 'https:' == document.location.protocol; gads.src = (useSSL ? 'https:' : 'http:') + '//www.googletagservices.com/tag/js/gpt.js'; var node = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; node.parentNode.insertBefore(gads, node); })(); </script> <script type='text/javascript'> googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.defineSlot('/95963596/TRI_300X250_dfp', [300, 250], 'div-gpt-ad-1450204159126-0').addService(googletag.pubads()); googletag.defineSlot('/95963596/TRI_above_728x90_dfp', [728, 90], 'div-gpt-ad-1450204159126-1').addService(googletag.pubads()); googletag.defineSlot('/95963596/TRI_below_728x90_dfp', [728, 90], 'div-gpt-ad-1450204159126-2').addService(googletag.pubads()); googletag.pubads().enableSingleRequest(); googletag.enableServices(); }); </script> <script type="text/javascript"> (function(isV) { if( !isV ) { return; } var adMgr = new AdManager(); var lycos_prod_set = adMgr.chooseProductSet(); var slots = ["leaderboard", "leaderboard2", "toolbar_image", "toolbar_text", "smallbox", "top_promo", "footer2", "slider"]; var adCat = this.lycos_ad_category; adMgr.setForcedParam('page', (adCat && adCat.dmoz) ? adCat.dmoz : 'member'); if (this.lycos_search_query) { adMgr.setForcedParam("keyword", this.lycos_search_query); } else if(adCat && adCat.find_what) { adMgr.setForcedParam('keyword', adCat.find_what); } for (var s in slots) { var slot = slots[s]; if (adMgr.isSlotAvailable(slot)) { this.lycos_ad[slot] = adMgr.getSlot(slot); } } adMgr.renderHeader(); adMgr.renderFooter(); }((function() { var w = 0, h = 0, minimumThreshold = 300; if (top == self) { return true; } if (typeof(window.innerWidth) == 'number' ) { w = window.innerWidth; h = window.innerHeight; } else if (document.documentElement && (document.documentElement.clientWidth || document.documentElement.clientHeight)) { w = document.documentElement.clientWidth; h = document.documentElement.clientHeight; } else if (document.body && (document.body.clientWidth || document.body.clientHeight)) { w = document.body.clientWidth; h = document.body.clientHeight; } return ((w > minimumThreshold) && (h > minimumThreshold)); }()))); window.onload = function() { var f = document.getElementById("FooterAd"); var b = document.getElementsByTagName("body")[0]; b.appendChild(f); f.style.display = "block"; document.getElementById('lycosFooterAdiFrame').src = '/adm/ad/footerAd.iframe.html'; // DOM Inj Ad (function(isTrellix) { var e = document.createElement('iframe'); e.style.border = '0'; e.style.margin = 0; e.style.display = 'block'; e.style.cssFloat = 'right'; e.style.height = '254px'; e.style.overflow = 'hidden'; e.style.padding = 0; e.style.width = '300px'; var isBlokedByDomain = function( href ) { var blockedDomains = [ "ananyaporn13000.tripod.com", "xxxpornxxx.tripod.com" ]; var flag = false; for( var i=0; i<blockedDomains.length; i++ ) { if( href.search( blockedDomains[ i ] ) >= 0 ) { flag = true; } } return flag; } var getMetaContent = function( metaName ) { var metas = document.getElementsByTagName('meta'); for (i=0; i<metas.length; i++) { if( metas[i].getAttribute("name") == metaName ) { return metas[i].getAttribute("content"); } } return false; } var getCommentNodes = function(regexPattern) { var nodes = {}; var nodesA = []; var preferredNodesList = ['a', 'c', 'b']; (function getNodesThatHaveComments(n, pattern) { if (n.hasChildNodes()) { if (n.tagName === 'IFRAME') { return false; } for (var i = 0; i < n.childNodes.length; i++) { if ((n.childNodes[i].nodeType === 8) && (pattern.test(n.childNodes[i].nodeValue))) { var areaName = pattern.exec(n.childNodes[i].nodeValue)[1]; nodes[areaName] = n; } else if (n.childNodes[i].nodeType === 1) { getNodesThatHaveComments(n.childNodes[i], pattern); } } } }(document.body, regexPattern)); for (var i in preferredNodesList) { if (nodes[preferredNodesList[i]]) { if( isTrellix && nodes[preferredNodesList[i]].parentNode.parentNode.parentNode.parentNode ) { nodesA.push(nodes[preferredNodesList[i]].parentNode.parentNode.parentNode.parentNode); } else { nodesA.push( nodes[preferredNodesList[i]] ); } } } return nodesA; } var properNode = null; var areaNodes = getCommentNodes( new RegExp( '^area Type="area_(\\w+)"' ) ); for (var i = 0; i < areaNodes.length; i++) { var a = parseInt(getComputedStyle(areaNodes[i]).width); if ((a >= 300) && (a <= 400)) { properNode = areaNodes[i]; break; } } var propertyName = getMetaContent("property") || false; if( isTrellix && (properNode) ) { e.src = '/adm/ad/injectAd.iframe.html'; properNode.insertBefore(e, properNode.firstChild); } else if( isTrellix && !( properNode ) ) // Slap the ad eventhought there is no alocated slot { e.src = '/adm/ad/injectAd.iframe.html'; e.style.cssFloat = 'none'; var cdiv = document.createElement('div'); cdiv.style = "width:300px;margin:10px auto;"; cdiv.appendChild( e ); b.insertBefore(cdiv, b.lastChild); } else if( !isBlokedByDomain( location.href ) ) { var injF = document.createElement('iframe'); injF.style.border = '0'; injF.style.margin = 0; injF.style.display = 'block'; injF.style.cssFloat = 'none'; injF.style.height = '254px'; injF.style.overflow = 'hidden'; injF.style.padding = 0; injF.style.width = '300px'; injF.src = '/adm/ad/injectAd.iframe.html'; if( b && ( !isTrellix || ( typeof isTrellix == "undefined" ) ) ) // All other tripod props { var cdiv = document.createElement('div'); cdiv.style = "width:300px;margin:10px auto;"; cdiv.appendChild( injF ); b.insertBefore(cdiv, b.lastChild); } } }( document.isTrellix )); } </script> <div id="tb_container" style="background:#DFDCCF; border-bottom:1px solid #393939; position:relative; z-index:999999999!important">  <style> .adCenterClass{margin:0 auto} </style> <div id="tb_ad" class="adCenterClass" style="display:block!important; overflow:hidden; width:916px;"> <div id="ad_container" style="display:block!important; float:left; width:728px "> <script type="text/javascript"> if (typeof lycos_ad !== "undefined" && "leaderboard" in lycos_ad) { document.write(lycos_ad['leaderboard']); } </script> </div> </div> </div> <script type="text/javascript"> if (typeof lycos_ad !== "undefined" && "slider" in lycos_ad) { document.write(lycos_ad['slider']); } </script>  <div id="FooterAd" style="background:#DFDCCF; border-top:1px solid #393939; clear:both; display:none; width:100%!important; position:relative; z-index:999999!important; height:90px!important"> <div class="adCenterClass" style="display:block!important; overflow:hidden; width:916px;"> <div id="footerAd_container" style="display:block!important; float:left; width:728px"> <iframe id="lycosFooterAdiFrame" style="border:0; display:block; float:left; height:96px; overflow:hidden; padding:0; width:750px"></iframe> </div> </div> </div> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=20% BGCOLOR="#003333" TEXT="#F7F7FF" bgproperties="fixed" background="159b2e52dduajq.jpg"> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="70" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 76 WIDTH="66"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="76" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="66" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></b></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#FFFBF0" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B>THE Meg Davis Homepages</b><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman" >    |     </FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Times New Roman" ><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="THE Meg Davis Homepages"><U>home</U></A></FONT></div> <div> <A HREF="paypal.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE=" PayPal Secure Ordering"><U> PayPal Secure Ordering</U></A>   |   <A HREF="order_html.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Mail Order Form"><U>Mail Order Form</U></A>   |   <B>Music Reviews </b>   |   <A HREF="id41.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Song Lyric Library"><U>Song Lyric Library</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id28.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Hamster Planet Home (Fun Site)"><U>Hamster Planet Home (Fun Site)</U></A></div> <div> Music Reviews </div> <div> <B> </b>" Sung and arranged like some of the very best moments of early Judy Collins </div> <div> or Pearls Before Swine's lazy day surrealism, Meg Davis's albums are filled with wonderful tales breathed out upon the air with a voice like the chiming of bells."</div> <div> DIRTY LINEN</div> <bR> <div> LISTEN.COM REVIEW : <FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Verdana" >Davis writes and sings stunningly beautiful songs complete with three-part harmonies that sound like the songs of sirens from Greek Mythology. Although her folk is more Medeival than Country, her harmonies are as rich and intricate as those of Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, and Linda Ronstadt. </FONT></div> <div> <B>(Reviewed by Eric.S.)</b> </div> <bR> <div> Having taught herself singing and acoustic guitar Meg began writing music at the age of 13. Her first song," I'm Late, I'm Late" began her career as a delightfully complex composer and performer and Meg's music is loved around the globe because she often uses the images and characters of forgotten worlds to express the very real and enduring emotions of today.</div> <div> Meg Davis has always had two sides to her career with one foot solidly in folk song writing and the other in the researching and performing of traditional Scottish, Irish and American folk songs. You can hear all of these influences in her original works which bring her into the contemporary genre of World Music. </div> <bR> <div> <B> </b>"Meg's singing is, quite predictably, exquisite. Her pure gold voice is </div> <div> impeccable ; her performances simply reduces the knees to a mass of </div> <div> quivering jelly."</div> <div> KEITH HUDSON, TAPLAS-THE VOICE OF FOLK MUSIC IN WALES</div> <bR> <div> CD Review: The Music of Wonderland - <B>earBuzz Review:</b> How could a CD based on "Alice in Wonderland", named "The Music of Wonderland", and sung/performed/authored by Meg Davis NOT be magical - well - that's just it - it is Magical - and another testament to the enormous talent owned by this minstrel Celtic fun folk female artist from the midwest.</div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.earbuzz.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.earbuzz.com/"><U>SUPPORT EARBUZZ.COM - BUY THIS CD </U></A></div> <bR> <div> CD Review: Meg Davis 'Live' at Dennos - </div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="591" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=5 HEIGHT= 296 WIDTH="579"><div> <B>earBuzz Review:</b> A voice from heaven, smooth, intimate, and entirely Celtic - with a gifted hand at the guitar and a penchant for acapella beauties - here is Meg Davis' live recording, "Live at Dennos". And no one would detect it live except for the audience's enthusiasm and the occasional cough during quite passages from the seats. Davis moves like a dove through the tunes, pausing only occasionally - with humorous ditties like, "The Pig Song", about a drunk in the gutter with a pig - the pig, disgusted with the drunk, moves on; and "Four Nights Drunk", a hallucinatory reflection by an intoxicated man. The Highlights of the CD are some of the finest Celtic folk music we've ever heard. The record opens with "But For Ireland I'd Not Tell Her Name", mp3'd here - it's both a happy and reflectively somber tune that immediately introduces the listener to Davis' soothing voice. Track 4, "If I Had My Life to Live Over", is Davis' first composition on the CD (the first tracks are traditional dating back to 1787), and it is a happily moving tune about living as a fisherman looking for Marlin among other things, mp3'd here. Track 12 is a familiar one, but only for the title - "Greensleeves" is a moving experience as Davis opens with the melody on sumptuous guitar before lending her dynamic voice to the melancholy melodic lyrics, gorgeous and fresh. .and mp3'd here as well. The final track, "Farewell to Tarwathie", is a fitting end to this 19 track CD as Meg sings acapella this 'goodbye' song about a sailor leaving to seek riches through whaling (not PC, but..what was in 1850). Beautiful record.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=5 HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="579"><div> <A HREF="http://WWW.earbuzz.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://WWW.earbuzz.com/"><U>SUPPORT EARBUZZ.COM - BUY THIS CD </U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=3 HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="271"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="271" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="8"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="8" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="298"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="298" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER COLSPAN=5 HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="579"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="579" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> Meg Davis' music is played worldwide and her fans jealously guard any copies they have of Meg's 7 albums. Awards include the 'North American Songwriters Award' 1978 ,awarded to Meg by Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary , </div> <div> her original songs have been recorded by such notables as Tommy Flemming and De Dannan, she has performed with Joannie Madden, Joe Burke, Alan Stivell, Jerry O'Sullivan, The Glasgow Pheonix Choir (Scotland), (the Late) Bill Monroe, Doc Watson, Seamus Connelly and many more wonderful musicians in the US and Britain,and she's inspired international audiences with her accapella singing and fine guitar work.</div> <div> You can't compare Meg Davis to anyone else.......she is quite unique.</div> <div> Since 1979 she has written and produced a total of 7 </div> <div> albums to date both in the U.S. and Scotland. Although retired from </div> <div> performing she intends to remaster all of her previous works and release </div> <div> them on CD over the next few years. She will also be publishing </div> <div> illustrated books of her songs and stories as well as creating new music in</div> <div> the future. </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>