Dorothy

Personnel: Sam Genders (vocals, guitar, piano); Mike Lindsay (guitar, synthesizer).Audio Mixer: Mike Lindsay.Recording information: Brighton Studio; Squarehead Studo, Kent.Photographer: Sam Genders.Following two LPs of warmly detailed, electronically imbued folk-pop, Sheffield native Sam Genders -- who records under the name Diagrams -- returns with Dorothy, a more understated effort that finds him collaborating with American poet Dorothy Trogdon. While projects that cross genres and even artistic mediums aren't uncommon, there is a uniqueness in Dorothy's cross-generational appeal which combines the literary perspective of a 90-year-old poet from the Pacific Northwest with that of a significantly younger singer/songwriter from Britain. After receiving Trogdon's only book, Tall Woman Looking, as a gift from a friend, Genders felt compelled to reach out to her and the two soon became the unlikely co-creators of this elegant little album. Dorothy is bookended by two versions of Trogdon's