CD Review: Mama Doni, “I Love Herring (& Other Fish Shticks for Kids)”

Dec 3, 08 • In Music

Mama Doni – I Love Herring & Other Fish Shticks for Kids (2008, Mama Doni) purchase this album (Amazon) Let me begin this review by saying that I think children’s music with a Jewish focus is a terrific idea. Speaking as someone who gets up to his pupik in holiday songs every year, the overall lack of explicitly Jewish modern American music is a sad, troublesome thing, and any album that nudges the scales in the other direction is a good thing in my book. Earphones. Whatever. On the other hand, I am honestly and utterly uncertain what to make of Mama Doni and her debut CD, I Love Herring (& Other Fish Shticks for Kids). It’s a most…unusual album, and when you consider that I’ve listened to multiple full-length efforts from Wing this year,