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Album Review: Deborah Conway & Willy Zygier - Everybody's Begging

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"...still has that bell-like clarity and occasional growl or questioning sneer."

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Unlike many of her contemporaries, Deborah Conway - in collaboration with her co-billed significant other - is still making new and crafted music.

It's rich and mostly acoustic based: Zygier's guitar playing delicate and adept, while her voice still has that bell-like clarity and occasional growl or questioning sneer, now coloured by life experience. Some of Everybody's Begging references their Jewish heritage, but not oppressively so - it's more about giving a cultural and historic context to something like Through Your Blood Shall You Live's quiet desperation. And when she pleas for someone to Throw Me A Lifeline, it comes with that mix of strength and vulnerability so identifiably hers.