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Gareth Davies-Jones released his new album, Truth Tradition Prophets & Loss, at the end of October. The album is a collection of traditional and self-penned songs. He describes himself as a technophobe who’s spent the time off given by the pandemic as an opportunity to “learn the ways of technology and begin to capture my song writing in a home studio.” I’m glad he did.

Highlights of the traditional songs are rather lovely versions of ‘Peggy Gordon’ and ‘Isle of St Helena’; the wistful poem ‘Raglan Road’, put to music by The Dubliners’ Luke Kelly is here as well; and the studio album closes with the hymnal ‘My Shepherd You Supply My Need’ – written in 1719 by Isaac Watts, it’s older than much of what we call traditional music.

These are great interpretations. As a songwriter, we get to hear another side of Davies-Jones. Whatever else you listen to, listen to ‘The Belfast Ladies Association’ a record of how the Association was set up in 1847 in response to the potato famine to provide aid and education irrespective of religion. Sometimes a songwriter can capture the essence of a mood, or of a time, or of a place – or all of them – with a wonderfully matching melody and lyric (think ‘Village Green Preservation Society’, ‘An Old Cricketer’, or even ‘Ghost Town’ from a different tradition) and Davies-Jones does it here – an optimistic tune which captures that sense of “Hope in the darkest times” that he sings of in the chorus, whilst telling the story in the verses.

Tracks:
1. No One Else
2. The Belfast Ladies Association
3. Isle of St Helena
4. My Lagan Love
5. Wild Atlantic Way
6. More Than Memory
7. Warden Hill
8. Raglan Road
9. Hosea
10. Peggy Gordon
11. In Company
12. My Shepherd You Supply My Need

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4jtGWhxibY&feature=emb_logo