Eleanor McEvoy, "Precious Little," What's Following Me?Eleanor McEvoy, "Precious Little," What's Following Me? (Columbia) A full decade after her "Only A Woman's Heart" led the Irish anthology A Woman's Heart and vaulted her to the ranks of countrywomen Sinead O'Connor, Frances and Mary Black Mary Black (born 22 May 1955, in Dublin, Ireland) is an Irish singer. Career She was born into a musical family. Her father had been a fiddler, her mother a singer, and her brothers had their own group. , and Maura O'Connell Maura O'Connell (born 16 November, 1958 in Ennis County Clare, Ireland) is a singer known for blending Celtic and folk sounds and filtering them through contemporary American country music. , Eleanor McEvoy has released four discs, none quite so adventurous as her first, What's Following Me? While McEvoy concentrates--are there any pop chanteuses that don't?--on loves come, gone, gained, and lost, she exercises the skills that made her a concert pianist and violinist with strong arrangements and an innate melodic me·lod·ic adj. Of, relating to, or containing melody. me·lod  i·cal·ly adv. sensibility sensibility /sen·si·bil·i·ty/ (sen?si-bil´i-te) susceptibility of feeling; ability to feel or perceive.deep sensibility . The hit "Precious Little" is by far the most distinctive tune on What's Following Me?, but the rest of the fare is muscular with special kudos to bandmates brother Keiran McEvoy, Jim Tate, and Lloyd Byrne. Tho' tho also tho' conj. & adv. Informal Though. tho' or tho conj, adv US or poetic same as though tho' her star has fallen a bit (she was dropped by Sony/Columbia; 2001's Yola was self-produced), What's Following Me? is enough evidence that she's the real deal and worth pursuing. |
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