Offa Rex: The Queen Of Hearts
Andy Gill, The Independent, 5 July 2017
UNDERSTANDABLY BEGUILED BY Olivia Chaney's enchanting 2015 debut album The Longest River, The Decemberists' frontman Colin Meloy tweeted his request that she cover the traditional ballad 'Willie O'Wimsbury'. A sweetly selfish demand, it triggered a touring alliance between Chaney and Meloy's band that led to his eventual suggestion, as she came offstage one night, that the two parties consummate their shared love of traditional English folk music by recording together, with The Decemberists, as he put it, playing The Albion Dance Band to her Shirley Collins.
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