Felicity Urquhart
New Shadow
Album · Country · 2001 · ABC Country
Felicity Urquhart tips her wide-brimmed hat to classic country music with this gorgeous 2001 album of standards. The Tamworth, New South Wales native tackles tunes from Merle Haggard, Spade Cooley, Patsy Cline, and other genre greats. Opener “You Can’t Break My Heart” rides along on a plucky, timeless twang, while the title track adopts more of a slow and jazzy swing, and “Swingtown” combines those two styles with some added gospel imagery. The backing across Urquhart’s fourth album is appropriately old-school, with bright lashings of fiddle and steel guitar especially. Following suit, her singing remains reliably clean-cut and upbeat, sounding like it could have been beamed in from several decades prior (at least).
The same year that New Shadow was released, Urquhart won a Golden Guitar Award for an a cappella version of Dolly Parton’s “Do I Ever Cross Your Mind” with Beccy Cole, Darren Coggan, and Adam Harvey. But she didn’t stick strictly to covers from there on out: Her most enduring hit, 2007’s “Big Black Cloud,” was an original co-write with Randy Scruggs. And in 2020 she joined The Waifs’ Josh Cunningham and others in a lockdown-inspired challenge to write a new tune every week, inspiring a separate collaboration with Cunningham for the following year’s The Song Club.
The same year that New Shadow was released, Urquhart won a Golden Guitar Award for an a cappella version of Dolly Parton’s “Do I Ever Cross Your Mind” with Beccy Cole, Darren Coggan, and Adam Harvey. But she didn’t stick strictly to covers from there on out: Her most enduring hit, 2007’s “Big Black Cloud,” was an original co-write with Randy Scruggs. And in 2020 she joined The Waifs’ Josh Cunningham and others in a lockdown-inspired challenge to write a new tune every week, inspiring a separate collaboration with Cunningham for the following year’s The Song Club.
New Shadow
Felicity Urquhart
Felicity Urquhart tips her wide-brimmed hat to classic country music with this gorgeous 2001 album of standards. The Tamworth, New South Wales native tackles tunes from Merle Haggard, Spade Cooley, Patsy Cline, and other genre greats. Opener “You Can’t Break My Heart” rides along on a plucky, timeless twang, while the title track adopts more of a slow and jazzy swing, and “Swingtown” combines those two styles with some added gospel imagery. The backing across Urquhart’s fourth album is appropriately old-school, with bright lashings of fiddle and steel guitar especially. Following suit, her singing remains reliably clean-cut and upbeat, sounding like it could have been beamed in from several decades prior (at least).
The same year that New Shadow was released, Urquhart won a Golden Guitar Award for an a cappella version of Dolly Parton’s “Do I Ever Cross Your Mind” with Beccy Cole, Darren Coggan, and Adam Harvey. But she didn’t stick strictly to covers from there on out: Her most enduring hit, 2007’s “Big Black Cloud,” was an original co-write with Randy Scruggs. And in 2020 she joined The Waifs’ Josh Cunningham and others in a lockdown-inspired challenge to write a new tune every week, inspiring a separate collaboration with Cunningham for the following year’s The Song Club.
The same year that New Shadow was released, Urquhart won a Golden Guitar Award for an a cappella version of Dolly Parton’s “Do I Ever Cross Your Mind” with Beccy Cole, Darren Coggan, and Adam Harvey. But she didn’t stick strictly to covers from there on out: Her most enduring hit, 2007’s “Big Black Cloud,” was an original co-write with Randy Scruggs. And in 2020 she joined The Waifs’ Josh Cunningham and others in a lockdown-inspired challenge to write a new tune every week, inspiring a separate collaboration with Cunningham for the following year’s The Song Club.
