Product Description
Though Isla Grant is Scottish-born and her vocal style shows more than a trace of a Caledonian brogue, she's found her biggest audience in Ireland in recent years. So it's probably no accident that The Beauty Of My Home has a distinctly country'n'Irish/easy-listening feel, with acoustic arrangements prominently featuring fiddle, dobro, accordion, banjo and steel guitar. Grant was born into a very musical family - her father played pipes, her mother sang, and her grandparents were fiddlers. She started out working the folk clubs of Glasgow and Edinburgh, before shifting her focus south of the border to the tough working men's clubs in north-east England, where she first fell under the spell of country music. Unlike most of her colleagues, content to restrict themselves to covers, Grant now writes most of her own songs, and this, her third album, is made up entirely of original compositions of a very autobiographical nature. There's also a strongly religious and life-affirming streak in her songs - a legacy of her long struggle to recover from a near-fatal car accident.