Album Info

KT Tunstall's Acoustic Extravaganza

Folk-Rock - 2006

Scottish singer-songwriter KT Tunstall’s 2005 debut album Eye to the Telescope polished up the young troubadour for the radio market... more

Tracklist

1

Ashes

3:34 min
2

Girl and the Ghost

4:14 min
3

One Day

5:02 min
4

Golden Age

5:00 min
5

Boo Hoo

4:56 min
6

Gone to the Dogs

3:59 min
7

Change

3:44 min
8

Miniature Disasters

4:32 min
9

Universe & U

4:31 min
10

Throw Me a Rope

3:43 min

About KT Tunstall's Acoustic Extravaganza

Scottish singer-songwriter KT Tunstall’s 2005 debut album Eye to the Telescope polished up the young troubadour for the radio market and sacrificed a bit of her intimate side. This has been corrected with 2006’s Acoustic Extravanganza, a casual collection of b-sides and acoustic demos recorded in two days with her backing group in a small Scottish recording studio that gives listeners an idea of what Tunstall’s like behind the scenes before the producer’s hand turns on the pop glitz. A dark, exemplary cover of Beck’s “Golden Age” leads the way, while “Universe & U” and “Miniature Disasters” from the debut album are reworked in smaller versions that better expose Tunstall’s vulnerable side, making her less a pop diva than a rustic soul singer — and therefore truer to her musical beginnings as a street singer. “Boo Hoo” works up a bluesy lather. “Gone to the Dogs,” with its active stand-up bass, and “Ashes,” with its angry intonations, best accentuate her folk n’ country side. If Tunstall ever turns her back on the pop world, she could make a strong run in the folk world.