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Americana, folk, acoustic guitar, cymraeg, singer-songwriter, welsh.

How long does it take to recover from the loss of a loved one? Days? Weeks? Months? Years? Decades? Never? With the loss of my own mother, Fifteen Years by Welsh singer songwriter, Al Lewis hit hard and hit close. Not just in loss and grief, but this December will be fifteen years since she left this earthly plane and Al’s album reminded me of that and all the things I love and miss about her.

Channelling his own experience of love, loss, and mental struggles into a cathartic and healing album, Fifteen Years was an album fifteen years in the making. The ten track album permeates with a profound love that cannot be described by mere words. To understand it, one must listen to Fifteen Years and experience that love first hand.

Through Al’s experience of coming to terms with the loss of his father, he in return discovered a side of his father he did not know. Amongst his father’s belongings, Al found paperwork on his parents’ divorce, his Dad’s struggle with Multiple Sclerosis, and more.

On sorting his father’s belongings, Al says,

“It was bittersweet, but it helped me sketch in the man. I felt like I knew him better afterwards.”

Learning about his father, not only opened questions for himself but his creativity. The title track spilled out of Al as he began to make sense of the grief he had been running from.

He explains,

“I’d just become a Dad myself, and I was ruminating on the cyclical nature of life, and how the man I saw in the mirror now looked more like my Dad than I ever had.”

Fifteen Years wastes no time in diving head first into the emotions, opening track “Sunshine in Sorrow” looks at love and losing that love of a significant other and “Never Be Forgotten” speaks of the memory one carries about those that they have lost.
Tracks:
  
1. Sunshine in Sorrow  04:23
2. Never Be Forgotten  03:19
3. In My Daughters Eyes  03:59
4. Where Do I Go From Here  03:23
5. Fatherly Guidance  03:15
6. Thirty Five  03:45
7. Fifteen Years  03:23
8. The Farmhouse  03:37
9. Feels like Healing  03:27
10. Beginning to Find You  01:43

Staat er compleet op, 10% pars mee gepost. Met zeer veel dank aan de originele poster. Laat af en toe eens weten wat je van het album vindt. Altijd leuk, de mening van anderen. Oh ja, MP3 doe ik niet aan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-u4EX6cH-o