Rich harvest.
K.C. McKanzie is a German folky singer-songwriter’s stage name and not without reason: in her thirteen self-penned songs on her fourth CD she once again combines folk, Americana and singer-songwriter.
On her CDs and on stages in Germany, Denmark, Switserland and the Netherlands her guitar or banjo are just as important as Joe ‘Budi’ Budinski’s banjo or bass, which he also regularly plays with the help of drum sticks. Because of the drummer in nine of these songs the music tends a little towards folkrock.
In the complete yet open sound McKanzie’s folky melodies prove to be 
supple, stately and sometimes unexpectedly swinging because of musical accents. Still they are dominated by her vocals, which often add an extra melody to her songs.
With her intruiging, somewhat metal-like voice she sings lyrics in which traditional and personal elements play hide and seek. In the title song she longs for the moment that she will say goodbye to her lover with a smile, in The Shabby Bride she sings that she will even be glad to walk to church behind her man, as long as she does not have to spend her years alone, but she then again kills her heartless lover very traditionally at the banks of a river in Man Of Gentle Birth.
Her tone has a sense of urgency throughout and thus convinces in those archetypical folk songs just as much as in her more personal songs. Supported atmospherically by evocative music her vocals set the door ajar to real life all the time.
***1/2