Jackie OatesBest Jackie Oates Albums Ranked

Gracious Wings

guardian

8.0

“The artwork of folk singer and fiddle player Jackie Oates’s eighth album depicts the harpy from Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials saga who resides in the land of death, listening to the stories of the deceased; what ancient Greece termed a “psychopomp”. Pullman’s creation chimes with Oates’s current studies at an Oxford hospice to become a music psychotherapist, singing to the terminally ill. Ha”