Dear Companion

Dear Companion is the debut solo release from Espers' Meg Baird. Meg's a founder of Espers and a principal songwriter therein, and it's a real pleasure to hear her away from the heady (and excellent!) confines of the group  for as layered and heavy the sounds of Espers' II is, Dear Companion is equally bare and ebullient. Meg's approach to the task was to take acoustic in hand and start singing songs she liked to sing  covers, trad numbers and even a few of her own for good measure. And that's really the record  Meg's lovely voice and guitar work, twined intimately for what seems to be your ears only. A classic folk record for today's people. Not neo-folk. Not freak-folk. Something simpler, more immediate and enduring as well. Find yourself a Dear Companion and spin it on  it's sweet!