Eleanor McEvoy – Love Must Be Tough – 180g Diverse Vinyl
Review
“This is yet another album of high quality music from Irish Singer/songwriter Eleanor McEvoy.
This time round there are a few covers of well known songs thrown in with the usual array of excellent originals. So the album opens with a version of the Rolling Stones’ `Mother’s Little Helper’, quite different form the original, and which McEvoy really makes her own. Her voice sounds quite impassioned, and brings out the quiet desperation of the lyric. It closes with Nick Lowe’s `I Knew The Bride (When She Used To Rock’n’Roll)’, a bouncy, feel good track that finishes the album on a real high. In between there is a mixture of blues/soul with an authentic Celtic feel. Stand outs are the title track, and `Old, New, Borrowed and Blue’, co written by Beautiful South’s Dave Rotheray.
Stuffed with catchy tunes played by a great band and memorable lyrics sung by a really exceptional voice, you’ll be humming this to yourself long after it has stopped spinning in the CD player!”
Victor – Hall of Fame
Track Listing
Side A
1. Mother’s Little Helper
2. Love Must Be Tough
3. Old New Borrowed and Blue
4. Lubbock Woman
5. If You Want Me to Stay
6. Roll out Better Days
Side B
7. Night May Still Be Young, But I Am Not
8. Hands off Him
9. Shame on the Moon
10. Easy in Love
11. He Never Spoke Spanish to Me
12. I Knew the Bride (When She Used to Rock ‘N Roll)
