I'm losing my edge. I missed one. Folk stalwart Sam Lee's Bernard Butler produced fourth album songdreamer which featured as Mojo's Album of the Month a couple of issues back.
In fact I've missed this time twice. Sam played the Newcastle Sage about a month back. I planned to go but lost track of the time. Who knows where the time goes. As someone sang once.
Anyway, songdreamer's a small classic in the great mode.Lee is a fifty three year old wuth a rustic folky voice. In the words of Mojo the record ' melds yoga pants era Bill Callahan pondering, the twittering rhapsodies of Kate Bush's Aerial and Incredible String Band cosmic wonder.'
It does indeed. It's full of reverence for wild places and what they can teach us. It's a record with appreciation for space and time. Folk was not something I really considered listening to when I was young. Now it seems increasingly centre stage in Rock & Roll circles. And Why not? It's about time frankly. Roll over Post Punkers. And tell Ian Curtis the news.
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