Loren Connors
As Roses Bow: Collected Airs 1992-2002
Family Vineyard 2007

01. An Air
02. Child
03. Sorrow in the House
04. St. Brigid's Air
05. Moonyean No. 3
06. Moonyean No. 7
07. O'Connor's Last Air
08. Moonyean No. 9
09. Onora's Kid
10. Moonyean No. 13
11. Frozen Star
12. O'Carolan's Air
13. Little Shoes
14. Brigid's Air
15. No Way Home
16. Air for Bobby Sands and the Hunger Strikers
17. Evangeline
18. Dance Acadia
19. A Boy's Day at the Fair
20. The Cart Ride
21. Airs No. 1
22. Airs No. 2
23. Moonyean

01-12. Airs 4-18
13. Death of Shelley
14. On Patrick Hill
15. O'Connaira's Air
16. Silent in the Soul
17. At the Playground
18. Stephen Foster's Air
19. The Kiss - A Moment at the Door
20. As Roses Bow

«How relaxing can avant-garde guitar be? It is short, very quiet and tiny. It is tiny without wilting into nothing but by being precious. And yet, it is not overly precious. It's a beautiful and well assembled collection by Family Vineyard. It gives attention to a fine musician who recorded these small compositions in the midst of living with Parkinson's disease. The one drawback to Collected Airs is that often it's impossible to reach the end of the collection awake. Probably a good listen for a first time Connors listener because it tends toward accessibility and concept. However don't expect it to fully represent the scope of his work. It's a nice work and one that should be in the collection of veteran Connors collectors as well as new buyers.»

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Traditionalist, experimentalist, outsider, bluesman, balladeer, or poet. Connors fits in everywhere precisely because he is outside of the categories we most easily think in, and because above all, he seems close to us and very human. In a sense, the most succinct way to describe this delicate and affecting record is to simply borrow a phrase from John Banville's 'The Sea', where he writes of "moments dripping away, unnoticed almost, drip by golden drip, toward the final, almost unnoticed, quietus".