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Maz O'Connor - The Mississippi Woman

from The F Spot Femmes Fatales by Various Artists

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    4* Review from The Telegraph and inclusion in their Top Folk Albums of 2015 ! Recommendation from The Sunday Times in their Culture section. As played on BBC Radio 2, Radio 3 and BBC 6 Music, as well as many other wonderful independent radio shows. Beautiful artwork from Amy Pettingill creates a four page booklet for this jewel case presentation cd.

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Penultimate track on our album
Nominated for the Horizon Award in the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2013

"The Mississippi Woman" has a lyrical ring, it is like a series of magic bells chiming in a line. It is a clever and funny tale like a deep south and feminine creation story particularly with the line,"she said I am your maker and you will abide with me". Maz O'Connor brings us a warm song, a primal song that is familiar and a superior comic timing in the delivery of the lyrics. Listeners will either find it irksome or mildly baffling that the creator is ruining a perfectly good set of washing by blowing it down the river.. I suppose Alligators need clothes too! It is a track that will repeat in the mind like the spin cycle of that load of washing you left in overnight again and again. Peter Taranaski Shedanceswithwolves blog

Maz O'Connor is a gifted singer of traditional and self-penned songs. She accompanies her uniquely pure voice with guitar, shruti box, piano and harmonium.
Described by Froots magazine as 'an enchanting debut album', her 'Upon a Stranger Shore' was released in the summer of 2012, just after Maz left university.
2013 brought a creative fellowship with the English Folk Dance and Song Society, funded by the BBC Performing Arts Fund, and a summer spent as the singer for the RSC's production of 'As You Like It' with music written by Laura Marling.
After a busy year of gigging and gathering new material, Maz 's new album will be released in July 2014 and is produced by multi-folk-award-winning Jim Moray.

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The Mississippi Woman
Did you ever hear the tale of the Mississippi woman?
She was washing her clothes in the waters one day
Then the angel of the lord came down and said
“There's gonna be some changes around here”
And he washed all her clothes away
There's comfort in soft bare skin
Warmth in the sun
But the tale of the Mississippi woman wasn't told by anyone
She made clothes from the rushes and a bed down by the willow
And when darkness came the riverbank made for her a pillow
Then the angel of the lord came down and said “now you are free”
And she said “lord, make a man out of me, lord, make a man out of me”
There's comfort in soft bare skin
Warmth in the sun
But the tale of the Mississippi woman wasn't told by anyone
“Take of my golden hair, take of my fingernails
Make something strong from something flowing, something frail”
Then the angel of the lord came down and he took of her golden hair
And where there were only willows
Now a man was standing there
There's comfort in soft bare skin
Warmth in the sun
But the tale of the Mississippi woman wasn't told by anyone
“What is this river here? What is this naked shame?
Where is my maker and won't he tell to me my name?”
Well the angel of the lord now being nowhere to be seen she said:
“I am your maker and now you'll abide with me
And we'll make clothes from the rushes and a bed down by the willow
And the side from which you came my love will serve you as a pillow”
Now there's comfort in soft bare skin
Warmth in the sun
But the tale of the Mississippi woman wasn't told by anyone

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from The F Spot Femmes Fatales, released March 8, 2015
Written and performed by Maz O'Connor

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Boutique label releasing handpicked singer songwriters from the Folkstock fold.
Most engineering, mixing and mastering by Lauren Deakin Davies.
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