"Promised Land" is an album no folk music lover should pass up. Well-written tunes, crisp production and instrumentation framing a message of reminiscences from a performer who does it as well as it can be done. In showing us where we've been, this CD tells us where we are in a way that is at once heartwarming and heartbreaking. "Promised Land" is a beautiful keeper, and I give it my highest recommendation. John C. McClure, Victory Music
Promised Land hit #3 on the Folk DJ list and made the final voting round of 50 to determine the Grammy nominees for "Best Folk Album."
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Gina Forsyth is a gifted songwriter with a passionate and honest voice. Her first CD, You Are Here, has already received considerable folk radio airplay and I hope and predict she'll continue to find a wide audience. Lynn McLachlan, Rambles, a Cultural Arts Magazine
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For The Malvinas, whose roster includes Crescent City singer-songwriter/fiddler Gina Forsyth, what also works are the cerebral songs, alternating vocalists, dovetailed delicate harmonies and fiddle-laced arrangements that frame a multi-hued personality. Forsyth’s “Sweet and Sunny South” is practically a Southern cultural anthem with such anti-antebellum lines as “We lose our musicians/And our fascist politicians” and “But it’s grits and not granola/and they know it from Shin-Ola.” Dan Willging, Offbeat Magazine
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That's T-for-Texas, Québec-as-in-Canada and Louisiana, y'all, a feminist folk trio with a seriously original sound created by three of the most temperamental, romantic, down-to-earth, tolerant, funky, maternal, independent, impassioned, politically opinionated, completely-unlike-one-another, singer-songwriter-instrumentalists you've ever had the good fortune to know. Lisa Markley, Gina Forsyth and Beth Cahill are hard workin' girls, too, on guitar, mandolin, fiddle, banjo, killer harmonies, and a veritable smörgasbord of original compositions that will have you coming back for more.
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