Wednesday, April 09, 2008

Unhalfbricking

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For the last week or so I've been completely hooked on Unhalfbricking, the album from the influential British Folk Rock band featuring Richard Thompson and a bunch of other amazingly talented musicians. The whole album is just beautiful, but these two tracks are my favorite: Million Dollar Bash, one of three Dylan covers here, and the long jam A Sailor's Life. If you think I'm out of my mind during the first couple of minutes of A Sailor's Life, please hang in there, you'll know what I mean when Thompson and fiddler Dave Swarbrick take over. I'm expecting the follow up to this album, Liege & Lief, in the mail any day now, if it's anything as brilliant as this, I'll be a happy man.



2 comments:

Raffy Gerard said...

Lieg and Lief is the only Fairpoint record I own and it's great, you will not be disappointed.

-Raffy "The Grape Tree" Gerard

Danny said...

I'm psyched!